Title
A discourse analysis of online classroom chats: Predictors of cyber-student performance
Abbreviated Journal Title
Teach. Psychol.
Keywords
EDUCATION; INTERNET; WEB; Education & Educational Research; Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Abstract
We applied a discourse analysis (DA) to the electronic chat room discussions of a 16-week, Internet-based section of a class in statistical methods in psychology. This analysis revealed that across the semester, several DA categories (e.g., total number of student comments) were correlated with final grade in the class. An additional analysis involving only the chat room discussion of Week 3 revealed that 2 DA categories (i.e., student response to a problem or example given in lecture and total number of student comments) correlated with final grade in the class. We discuss the pedagogical implication of these results with regard to an instructor's ability to identify early warning predictors of student performance in the virtual classroom.
Journal Title
Teaching of Psychology
Volume
28
Issue/Number
3
Publication Date
1-1-2001
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
222
Last Page
226
WOS Identifier
ISSN
0098-6283
Recommended Citation
"A discourse analysis of online classroom chats: Predictors of cyber-student performance" (2001). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 2990.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/2990
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