The "elaboration phase" concerns the analysis and design workflow, leading to a defined architecture solution to the problem.
They can demonstrate that their system architecture is sound during the elaboration phase of the project by building a "steel thread" of features that fulfill one or two key user stories.
Yet, so often, the Elaboration phase of learning is left to students to figure out outside of class.
During the Elaboration phase, instructors explicitly guide students in how to do this and give them opportunities to practice the application of their new understandings.
Placed after the Explanation phase which should have addressed students' confusions, introduced new terms and ideas, and led to some conceptual resolution the Elaboration phase lets students try out their new knowledge.
After self-study students seemed to have reached a peak in cognitive engagement; during the presentation and elaboration phase their levels of cognitive engagement remained the same (M(4) = 3.66 and M 5) = 3.66, p = .99).99
The first objective of Study 2 was to examine the degree to which students are cognitively engaged during PBL across the five PBL phases: (1) the problem definition phase; (2) Initial self-study; (3) Initial findings sharing phase; (4) Self-study phase; and (5) Presentation and elaboration phase.
We expected that cognitive engagement during the first phase would be relatively low; then it would increase during the first self-study phase; decrease again during group discussion; increase during the longer self-study phase; and eventually decrease again during the presentation and elaboration phase.
A number of other cytokines, which share structural homology and signal through the gp130-Jak-STAT pathway, have, however, been implicated in the elaboration of acute phase proteins in cancer (Heinrich et al, 1998).
The methodology used was the RUP (Rational Unified Process) which consists of Inception, Elaboration, Construction, and Transition phases.
