Effects of different types of instructor comments in online discussions
- Title
- Effects of different types of instructor comments in online discussions
- Author
- 신서경
- Keywords
- Comment types; online discussion; knowledge construction; interactivity; quality discussion
- Issue Date
- 2019-04
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS
- Citation
- DISTANCE EDUCATION, v. 40, NO 2, Page. 226-242
- Abstract
- The current study examined the effects of different types of instructor comments on student engagement in an online discussion. In particular, this study examined three comment types: (1) praise-oriented comments, agreeing with students' initial messages and recapping their ideas, (2) elaboration-encouraging comments, requesting elaboration on the initial messages, and (3) perspective-widening comments, suggesting different or thought-provoking opinions responding to the initial messages. Seventeen graduate students enrolled in an online course were recruited. A content analysis was employed to evaluate the levels of knowledge construction. Interactivity was measured by the number of posts and idea units. The findings revealed that perspective-widening comments facilitated students' evaluation on the peer postings and brought up diverse perspectives, contributing to knowledge construction. While elaboration-encouraging comments led to high interactivity among students, praise-oriented comments had no significant effect on the frequency of interactivity.
- URI
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01587919.2019.1602469https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/110713
- ISSN
- 0158-7919; 1475-0198
- DOI
- 10.1080/01587919.2019.1602469
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- COLLEGE OF EDUCATION[S](사범대학) > EDUCATION(교육학과) > Articles
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