Time management strategic episodes (TMSE), an online assessment approach to metacognition in collaborative context

We aim to analyze metacognition in a long-term project activity. However, metacognition has been mostly analyzed and assessed in individual learning contexts within short-time tasks. More recent studies have starting considering metacognition in collaborative settings or as social product (Goos et al., 2002; Vauras et al., 2003) and even, as a socially shared product (Hurme, Palonen et Järvelä, 2006). The methodology we propose for long term metacognition assessment is based on the two first levels of the Stahl (2005) model, considering the individual level and the team level. We propose to study the two first levels through the Time Management Strategic Episodes (TMSE) as an interaction sequence including six phases: (1) the context or problem identification, (2) the action proposals, (3) the proposals evaluations and (4) the decision making phase. Modeling metacognition through the TMSE phases could contribute to (1) easily identify the qualitative contribution of each student beyond their quantitative participation, and (2) help to characterize the nature of the metacognitive collaborative decision making process.