期刊名称：International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
电子版ISSN：1812-9129
出版年度：2009
卷号：21
期号：2
页码：148-157
出版社：International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning
摘要：This study investigated the extent that cooperative group members' levels of hopefulness, operationalized as a combination of pathways to meet desired goals and the agentic thinking that motivates an individual to use those pathways, predict (a) group performance, namely, the quality of an article critique assignment and research proposal assignment, and (b) the degree that heterogeneity (i.e., variability of pathways and agency levels) is related to this outcome variable. Participants were 86 graduate students enrolled in a research methodology course. Groups (n = 28) formed the unit of analysis. A multiple regression analysis revealed that groups attaining the lowest scores on the article critique and research proposal assignments combined tended to report the lowest levels of hope, as measured by agentic thinking, and the greatest variation with respect to pathways to meet desired goals. These variables explained 20.5% of the variance in performance. This finding is placed within the context of other studies in which the predictability of group characteristics and dynamics has been examined
