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Wu, Linjing; Li, Jing; Liu, Qingtang; He, Liming; Yang, Weiqing; Zhang, Yaosheng; Cheng, Yun – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2021
The measurement of knowledge contribution in collaborative knowledge building is an important research topic in computer-supported collaborative learning. The information measures of knowledge contribution based on information theory are proposed in this study, which includes two measures: amount of information and information gain. Discourse data…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Information Theory, Measurement
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Beach, Richard; Doerr-Stevens, Candance – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2011
Social networking sites may include argumentative writing about particular issues in which participants adopt competing perspective and discourses on those issues. This study examined roles and discourses adopted by high school students participating in an online role-play conducted on a Ning platform regarding their school's Internet policies on…
Descriptors: High School Students, Persuasive Discourse, School Policy, Administrative Policy
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Howard, Craig D.; Barrett, Andrew F.; Frick, Theodore W. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010
In this quasi-experimental case study, we compared five sections of a basic undergraduate technology course. Within an asynchronous web forum, pre-service teachers wrote short critiques of websites designed by their classmates. This peer feedback was provided anonymously by students in two classes (n = 35) whereas providers and recipients of peer…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Preservice Teacher Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Education Courses
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Rockwell, Geoffrey; Passmore, Graham; Bradley, John – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1997
Describes TACTweb, a World Wide Web-based text and analysis environment that represents the results of text queries as hypertext, and the TACTweb workbook, a tutorial that introduces college students to the hypertextual capabilities of electronic literature and to the analysis of electronic editions of traditional text. Student feedback is…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Electronic Text, Higher Education
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Ruberg, Lorena F.; And Others – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1996
Based on classroom observation, interviews, and student and teacher surveys, this study examined student interaction and participation within a computer-mediated communication (CMC) environment in a college-level plant science lab course. The CMC discourse encouraged experimentation, sharing of early ideas, increased and more distributed…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis
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Ahern, Terence C.; And Others – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1992
Describes a study that examined increasing peer interaction in an asynchronous learning environment by investigating the effect of a teacher's discourse style on the level and quality of student participation in a computer-mediated discussion. Three discourse styles (i.e., questions, statements, and conversational) are studied, and further…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique)