Home

Ph.D. Projects

Nikol Rummel

[Person] [Project]

---

Nikol Rummel, Dr.

Short Vita

1973:

Born in Kenzingen (Germany).

1995-2000:

Study of Psychology at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)

2000:

Master of Science (Educational Psychology), University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)

Since Nov 2000:

PhD student of the VGK.

Sep 2002:

Graduation in Psychology at the University of Freiburg (Germany).
Thesis: "A Pictorial Mnemonic Strategy to Enhance Flexible Recall of Text-Embedded Factual Information"

Contact

Phone: ++49 (0) 761 / 203 2421
FAX: ++49 (0) 761 / 203 2496
email: Nikol.Rummel@vgk.de
WWW: My homepage

Department of Psychology
University of Freiburg
Engelbergerstr. 41
D-79085 Freiburg (Germany)

---

Ph.D. Project

Topic: Employing worked-out examples, vicarious learning and scripted cooperation for the support of net-based interdisciplinary collaboration

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Hans Spada (Freiburg), PD Dr. Rolf Plötzner (Tübingen)

Start of the Ph.D. project: Nov 2000

Summary

In many domains the enormous and rapid growth of domain-knowledge, in combination with an ever increasing specialization of this knowledge, results in a growing need for interdisciplinary collaboration. People with different expertise are challenged to work together in order to succeed in solving the tasks at hand. As a result of this development, the investigation of collaboration between spatially distributed people from different fields, as well as the possible promotion of such collaboration, move in the focus of research activities. In addition, the dynamically evolving technological solutions for net-based (computer-mediated) communication further the possibility of a collaboration across barriers of distance and time.
In principle, the promotion of net-based collaboration can take two directions: an improvement of the collaborative setting and, on the other hand, a furtherance of the cooperative competences of the people involved. This Ph.D. project concentrates on the second possibility. In a first experimental study, the potential of worked-out examples (realized in the form of a case study) for the improvement of people's cooperative competences in an interdisciplinary net-based scenario will be investigated. The effect of a case study - presented as a model of an ideal collaboration - on process and outcome of a subsequent net-based collaboration (application phase) will be analyzed and compared to the effect of cooperative problem-solving and individual problem-solving (experimental variation during the learning phase).
Interdisciplinary dyads ­ consisting of one advanced medical and psychology student each ­ will be presented a psychiatric/psychological case study and will be asked to jointly formulate a diagnosis as well as a therapy plan making use of their complementary domain knowledge. The collaboration will take place over an videoconferecing system with a shared text-editor as well as personal text-editors.

This Ph.D. project is part of the research project "Netzbasiertes kooperatives Lernen mit Musterfällen und Fallaufgaben bei komplementärer Expertise" [Net-based cooperative case-based learning in dyads with complementary expertise] of Prof. Hans Spada and Prof. Franz Caspar, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in the Special Priority Program "Netzbasierte Wissenkommunikation in Gruppen" [Net-based Knowledge Communication in Groups].

Publications:

Hermann, F., Rummel, N. & Spada, H. (2001). Solving the case together: The challenge of net-based interdisciplinary collaboration. In P. Dillenbourg, A. Eurelings, & K. Hakkarainen (Eds.), Proceedings of the First European Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (pp. 293-300). Maastricht, NL: McLuhan Institute.

Rummel, N., Spada, H., Hermann, F., Caspar, F. & Schornstein, K. (2002). Promoting the coordination of computer-mediated interdisciplinary collaboration. In G. Stahl (Ed.), Proceedings of the Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2002 Conference (pp. 558-560). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Rummel, N., Levin, J. R. & Woodward, M. M. (in press). Do pictorial mnemonic text-learning aids give students something worth writing about? Journal of Educational Psychology.

Rummel, N., Härder, J., Ertl, B. & Spada, H. (submitted). Supporting collaborative learning and problem-solving in desktop-videoconferencing.

Spitulnik, M., Bouillion, L. , Rummel, N., Clark, D. & Fischer, F. (submitted). Collaborative online environments for lifelong learning: Design issues from a situated learning perspective.

Conference contributions:

Rummel, N. Hermann, F. & Spada, H. (2001). Förderung effektiver Kooperation beim netzbasierten Problemlösen und Lernen bei komplementärem Wissen. Vortrag auf der 8. Tagung der Fachgruppe "Pädagogische Psychologie" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Landau.

Rummel, N., Levin, J, R., Beitzel, B. D. (2001). Can a mnemonic study-strategy enhance students' processing and recall of integrated text? Paper presented at the 9th European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) 2001. Fribourg, Switzerland.

Rummel, N. & Spada, H. (2002). Combining worked-out examples and vicarious learning to promote the coordination of computer-mediated interdisciplinary collaboration. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2002. New Orleans, USA.

Caspar, F., Schornstein, K., Rummel, N. & Spada, H. (2002). Gemeinsame Fallbearbeitung: Netzbasierte Kooperation von Medizinern und Psychologen. Vortragsbeitrag auf dem 20. Symposium der Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie. Mai 2002, Universität Konstanz.

Woodward, M. M., Siegel, J. T.,Rummel, N., & Levin, J. R. (2002). Pictorial mnemonic strategies and students' intelligent learning about intelligence. Paper to be presented at the 110th Annual APA Connvention. August 2002, Chicago, USA.

Rummel, N. & Spada, H. (2002). Gemeinsames netzbasiertes Problemlösen von Personen mit unterschiedlicher Expertise: Schwierigkeiten und ihre Überwindung. Vortrag auf dem 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). September 2002, Humboldt Univeristät zu Berlin.

Spada, H. & Rummel, N. (2002). Modelllernen als Methode zur Strukturierung netzbasierter Zusammenarbeit. Vortrag auf dem 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). September 2002, Humboldt Univeristät zu Berlin.

[Top of Page] [Person] [Project] Nikol Rummel

Last update: 30 Mar 2006, vgk-webmaster@vgk.de