Students´ task related assessment: Does knowledge construction process through CSCL learning environment obliging?

This study was conducted to assess the knowledge construction process in a Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environment and to investigate if this process can assist students in performing tasks that needed to be completed within times provided as one of an element in School Based Assessment (SBA). CSCL is based on the pedagogical process of observation where students will learn progressively through active group interaction. The study was conducted on 61 students and 2 teachers from two schools that were taught through the process of learning and teaching for the form one History subject. Both classes will be using a CSCL learning environment through Moodle in their learning and teaching process which called Collaborative Portfolio Assessment (CPA) learning system. The results of this study indicated that the process of knowledge construction in this CPA learning system has helped students to perform well in tasks that needed to be completed. The effort through this CPA learning system is to encourage students to build a meaningful knowledge by a consistent method. The teacher should also encourage students to complete tasks in the form problem solving methods, analyze, prediction and encourage students to explore further to justify their answers and also encourage discovery learning by encouraging students to collaborate with other students.