A discourse analysis of online classroom chats: Predictors of cyber-student performance

    Authors

    A. Y. Wang; M. H. Newlin;T. L. Tucker

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    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

    WOS:000170229700015

    ISSN

    0098-6283

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