Relationship between Types of Question Prompts and Critical Thinking in Online Discussions

2013 ◽  
pp. 197-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Richardson ◽  
Ayesha Sadaf ◽  
Peggy A. Ertmer
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Student Thinking ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Question Prompts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Structure Discussion

This chapter addresses the relationship between types of initial question prompts and the levels of critical thinking demonstrated by students’ responses in online discussions. The chapter is framed around a research study involving discussion prompts that were coded and classified using Andrews’ typology (1980). Students’ responses (n=1132), taken from 27 discussion forums, were coded using the four-stage Practical Inquiry Model (PIM) (Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2001). Among the nine question types explored, Critical Incident questions were most effective in generating high levels of student thinking. This was followed by Lower Divergent, Shotgun, and Analytical Convergent question responses that mainly resulted in students achieving the Integration phase of the PIM. Moreover, validation of the discussion prompts provides an updated typology that categorizes question prompts based on the verbal structure of online discussions. This chapter provides important implications for instructors who teach online, especially those looking for general guidelines regarding how to structure discussion prompts to elicit high quality student responses.

(Re)Assessing Student Thinking in Online Threaded Discussions

2013 ◽  
pp. 265-280
Author(s):  
Felicia Saffold
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Student Thinking ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Threaded Discussions ◽  
Online Discussion Forums

A teacher educator examines the level of critical thinking of her preservice teachers participating in an urban education course through online discussions. The objective was to see if online discussions, which were the heart of the learning process, could be an effective strategy to promote critical thinking skills. Using the revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001) as a guide, participants’ posts and responses were assessed to determine the quality of thinking that occurred in the online discussion forum. Results show that utilizing online discussion forums can be an effective pedagogy for classes where complex, often controversial issues such as social justice, equity, and white privilege are discussed.

Strategies and Principles to Develop Cognitive Presence in Online Discussions

2013 ◽  
pp. 148-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim A. Hosler ◽  
Bridget D. Arend
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Online Instructors ◽  
Question Prompts ◽  
Reference Guide ◽  
Online Discussion Forums

The chapter is designed to provide online instructors with strategies and techniques for fostering greater cognitive presence in asynchronous online discussion forums. Online discussions, moderated and facilitated by instructors and students, are a staple in online learning environments and provide powerful mechanisms for engaging students in dialogue. However, oftentimes dialogues stall out at the initial inquiry stage, and deeper, critical thinking is neglected. Realizing the foundational nature of discussion forum activities, the authors present ways in which instructors can nurture cognitive presence and foster deeper lines of thinking in online discussions. The chapter outlines the four stages of cognitive presence while offering strategies and question prompts to engender cognitive presence in online discussions. A quick reference guide is included as a discussion aid, suggesting ways to recognize the stages of cognitive presence as well as providing question prompts for engendering greater cognitive presence and critical thinking.

scholarly journals Enhancing learning through the discussion forum

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nantha Kumar Subramaniam
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
Discussion Forum ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Online Discussion Forums ◽  
Collaborative Discussion

Asynchronous online discussion forums play an important role in adult online courses, and have many possible functions. Our experience in using the discussion forums in online courses for task-based collaborative discussion has led us to many questions about the optimal ways of using online discussion to support collaborative learning, such as how should instructors structure online discussions in a way that it promotes collaborative learning? What should instructors do to enhance learners' reflective thinking, critical thinking, or problem solving in online collaborative discussions? The challenges of using forum in learning have also been highlighted by many researchers. In this paper, we present a so-called “smart” discussion forum to support, monitor and facilitate task-based collaboration for the learning process of adult learners to advance their development of critical thinking.

scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship Between Interaction and the Structure of Questions in Online Discussions Using Learning Analytics

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-60
Author(s):  
Ayesha Sadaf ◽  
Larisa Olesova
Keyword(s):  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Degree Centrality ◽  
Question Prompts ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractWhile research has established the importance of questions as a key strategy used to facilitate student interaction in online discussions, there is a need to explore how the structure of questions influence students’ interactions. Using learning analytics, we explored the relationship between student-student interaction and the structure of initial questions with and without the Practical Inquiry Model (PIM). Degree centrality was used as the method to analyse the number of responses each student sent (out-degree centrality) and the number of responses each student received (in-degree centrality). Findings showed that the number of responses each student sent and received was higher in the discussions initiated by the PIM-question prompts. In addition, analysis revealed a positive relationship between students’ interaction and the discussions structured with PIM and non-PIM questions. Finally, there was a significant difference in out-degree centrality but no significant difference in in-degree centrality between discussions structured with the PIM and non-PIM questions. We conclude that initial questions can be structured using PIM as a guiding framework to facilitate student-student interaction in online discussions.

Implementing Varied Discussion Forums in E-Collaborative Learning Environments

2011 ◽  
pp. 370-376
Author(s):  
Jianxia Du ◽  
George Pate
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Online Instructors ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Group Member ◽  
Difficult Part

Creating quality online instruction is a challenging task for most online instructors, with promoting engaging online discussions being the most difficult part of the instruction. Instructors frequently struggle with creating online discussions that will promote “critical thinking skills” (Toledo, 2006, p. 150) in an asynchronous environment instead of simply presenting dead-end questions that go nowhere. This article will review several suggested variances in online discussions that allow engaged critical thinking, promote subject matter understanding along with group member and individual online discussion participation, and assist instructors in choosing appropriate methods for their particular instructional goals.

Participatory asymmetry: Theorizing media objects and media flows in a framework of participatory production

First Monday ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Grace ◽  
Fred Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Long Tail ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
Media Flows ◽  
The Relationship

Social media develops a common asymmetry: few contribute much, the majority little. By “participatory asymmetry” we understand this long tail of participatory production as an interactive dynamic among two types of social media users, regular and sporadic, that shapes the curation of social media spaces. Examining online discussions surrounding massive, open, online courses (MOOCs), we observe interactive differences between regular and sporadic users that shape patterns of social media curation across the networked discussion forums of a major, online newspaper. Whereas regular users reply directly to other users to durably articulate discussions as “media objects;” sporadic users post one-to-many messages which aggregate in platform-reconfigurable cascades of social media or “media flows.” By mapping the relationship between regular and sporadic participation, one-to-one and one-to-many interaction, and the curation of social media spaces in patterns of media objects and flows, we propose a four-part typology of participatory asymmetry: broadcast, feedback, moderated, and dialogic.

scholarly journals Problem Based Learning to Improve Critical Thinking

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Egi Gustomo Arifin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Problem Solving Process ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

<em>curriculum has also changed, namely with a scientific approach. The criteria in this approach emphasize several aspects, including learning materials based on facts or phenomena that can be explained by logic, teacher explanations, student responses, and educative interactions between teachers and students, subjective thinking, encouraging and inspiring students to think critically, analytically, and accurately in identifying, understanding, solving problems, and applying learning materials.Teachers as educators must develop student's critical thinking skills. Aim of this study describes the concept of Problem Based Learning (PBL), components of critical thinking skills and the relationship of PBL with critical thinking skills. The results are problem-based learning can improve critical thinking through 5 phases, (a) orienting problems; (b) organize students to research; (c) assist group investigations; (d) develop and present the work; (e) analyze and evaluate the problem solving process.</em>

Compensatory Coping Through the Extension of Working Hours

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maie Stein ◽  
Sylvie Vincent-Höper ◽  
Nicole Deci ◽  
Sabine Gregersen ◽  
Albert Nienhaus
Keyword(s):  
Job Demands ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Leader Member Exchange ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Member Exchange ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Advance Knowledge

Abstract. To advance knowledge of the mechanisms underlying the relationship between leadership and employees’ well-being, this study examines leaders’ effects on their employees’ compensatory coping efforts. Using an extension of the job demands–resources model, we propose that high-quality leader–member exchange (LMX) allows employees to cope with high job demands without increasing their effort expenditure through the extension of working hours. Data analyses ( N = 356) revealed that LMX buffers the effect of quantitative demands on the extension of working hours such that the indirect effect of quantitative demands on emotional exhaustion is only significant at low and average levels of LMX. This study indicates that integrating leadership with employees’ coping efforts into a unifying model contributes to understanding how leadership is related to employees’ well-being. The notion that leaders can affect their employees’ use of compensatory coping efforts that detract from well-being offers promising approaches to the promotion of workplace health.

KARAKTERISTIK PENCAPAIAN KEMAMPUAN PEMBUKTIAN DAN KEPERCAYAAN DIRI MAHASISWA MELALUI METODE MOORE

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-82
Author(s):  
Iyon Maryono ◽  
Siska Amanda Lucita Dewi ◽  
Agus Hikmat Syaf
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Student Thinking ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Teacher Students ◽  
Thinking Process ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Important Activity

Pembuktian dalam matematika adalah suatu aktivitas yang penting, tetapi aktivitas ini tergolong sulit bagi mahasiswa calon guru matematika. Masalah ini salah satunya dipengaruhi oleh kepercayaan-diri. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis karakteristik pencapaian kemampuan pembuktian matematis dan kepercayaan-diri mahasiswa melalui metode Moore. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode campuran bertahap yaitu tahap kuantitatif dan tahap kualitatif. Pada tahap kuantitatif disimpulkan bahwa kemampuan pembuktian pada kelas yang menggunakan metode Moore lebih baik daripada kelas yang menggunakan model pembelajaran langsung. Metode Moore dapat mengungkap proses perkembangan capaian pembelajaran mahasiswa dalam pembuktian, sehingga dosen dapat memberikan umpan balik untuk mengembangkannya. Pada tahap kualitatif, dihasilkan karakteristik kemampuan pembuktian beberapa mahasiswa. Karakteristik ini ditinjau berdasarkan respon mahasiswa terhadap masalah pembuktian. Pada pembelajaran dengan metode Moore, mahasiswa tidak diperbolehkan membuka bahan ajar, sehingga dosen harus mengikuti alur berpikir mahasiswa dan mengarahkan proses berpikirnya. Sebagai implikasi, metode Moore baik digunakan dengan catatan mahasiswa harus belajar terlebih dahulu sebelum pembelajaran di kelas.Proving in mathematics is an important activity, but this activity is classified as difficult for prospective mathematics teacher students. This problem is influenced by self-confidence. The purpose of this study was to analyze the characteristics of achievement of students' mathematical proving ability and self-confidence  through the Moore method. This study uses a phased mixed method, namely quantitative and qualitative stages. In the quantitative stage, it was produced: "Based on the overall and PAM categories, the ability to prove the class using the Moore method is better than the class that uses the direct learning model". Moore's method can reveal the process of developing student learning outcomes in proof, so that lecturers can provide feedback to develop it. In the qualitative stage, the characteristics of the ability of several students are produced. these characteristics are reviewed based on student responses to the problem of proof. In the Moore method of learning, students are not allowed to open teaching materials, so the lecturer must follow the flow of student thinking and direct the thinking process. As an implication of the results of this study, the Moore method is well used with the notes that students must study before learning in class.

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