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Our previous research has shown that the cognitive psychology based scale known as the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) by Pintrich (1993) did not properly address the impact of a collaboration experience on learning outcomes (Strouse and Eddins 2010).  To address this shortcoming, we revised a learning and collaboration scale found in the medical research literature known as the Readiness for Interpersonal Learning Scale (RIPLS) (Parsell and Bligh 1999).  Our aim was to revise the scale for a business context and to test the validity of the revised scale in a Management Information Systems (MIS) course.  Therefore, this paper reports on a pilot study that employed the revised RIPLS.  The collaboration experience was operationalized by means of a social media-style of web-based platform known as SharePoint.

Information systems, social media systems, learning and cognition