Re: Lisa Butler's request for info

Keith R Sawyer (sawyer who-is-at cats.ucsc.edu)
Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:38:22 -0800 (PST)

You may want to contact Margarita Azmitia, here at UC Santa Cruz. She
gave a presentation yesterday on a study she did of expert-novice
collaboration among same-age peeres. She found that the expert children
viewed their expert role as a source of power, and never relinquished the
control of that role; thus, the novice was not allowed to become a more
central participant. She found this to be the case even when she
"secretly" trained the novices in advance so that they were as skilled as
the expert, but without the expert's knowledge.

Keith Sawyer
Department of Psychology
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064