Toward a CoI Population Parameter: The Impact of Unit (Sentence vs. Message) on the Results of Quantitative Content Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Gorsky, Paul; Caspi, Avner; Blau, Ina; Vine, Yodfat; Billet, Amit
Titel	Toward a CoI Population Parameter: The Impact of Unit (Sentence vs. Message) on the Results of Quantitative Content Analysis
Quelle	In: International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 13 (2012) 1, S.17-37 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1492-3831
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Open Universities; Inquiry; Communities of Practice; Statistical Analysis; Goodness of Fit; Models; Instruction; Learning; Content Analysis; Asynchronous Communication; Teaching Conditions; Distance Education; Campuses; Proximity; Intellectual Disciplines; Sciences; Humanities; Undergraduate Study; Courses; Difficulty Level; Class Size; Sentences; Communication (Thought Transfer); Interrater Reliability; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Offene Universität; Community; Statistische Analyse; Analogiemodell; Teaching process; Unterrichtsprozess; Lernen; Inhaltsanalyse; Lehrbedingungen; Unterrichtsbedingungen; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Lebensnähe; Geisteswissenschaften; Science; Wissenschaft; Humanwissenschaften; Grundstudium; Kursangebot; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Klassengröße; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Interrater-Reliabilität
Abstract	The goal of this study is to further corroborate a hypothesized population parameter for the frequencies of social presence versus the sum of teaching presence and cognitive presence as defined by the community of inquiry model in higher education asynchronous course forums. This parameter has been found across five variables: academic institution (distance university vs. campus-based college), academic discipline (exact sciences vs. humanities), academic level (graduate vs. undergraduate), course level (introduction vs. regular vs. advanced), and course size (small vs. medium vs. large), that is, the number of students enrolled. To date, the quantitative content analyses have been carried out using the syntactic unit of message. In an attempt to further establish the parameter's goodness-of-fit, it is now tested across two different syntactic units, message versus sentence. To do so, the same three-week segments from 15 Open University undergraduate course forums (10 from humanities and five from exact sciences) were analyzed twice--once by the unit message and once by the unit sentence. We found that the hypothesized parameter remained viable when the unit of analysis is the sentence. We also found that the choice of syntactic unit is indeed a critical factor that determines the "content" of the transcript and its inferred meaning. (Contains 9 tables.) (As Provided).
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