Verifying Causal Relationships Among the Presences of the Community of Inquiry Framework in the Chinese Context

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Verifying Causal Relationships Among the Presences of the Community of Inquiry Framework in the Chinese ContextVerifying Causal Relationships Among the Presences of the Community of Inquiry Framework in the Chinese ContextMa, ZhiqiangWang, JingWang, QiyunKong, LiliWu, YajieYang, HaoThe purpose of this study was to verify a Chinese version of Community of Inquiry (CoI) instrument with learning presence and explore the causal relationships of the factors in the instrument. This study first examined the reliability and validity of the instrument. All four presences had acceptable levels of reliability (all Cronbach's α> .765 or higher). The confirmatory factor modeling approach was used to assess its validity. Then, the study used path analysis and regression analysis to explore the causal relationships of the presences. The key findings showed that teaching and social presences directly influenced the perceptions of learning presence. Learning presence was a partial mediating variable of interactional relationship within CoI constructs.2017EnglishThe International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning186China10.19173/irrodl.v18i6.31971492-3831yescommunity of inquirylearning presencesocial presenceteaching presence

China, Asia