Cognitive Presence in Web-Based Learning: A Content Analysis of Students' Online Discussions
| Published | November 2001 |
| Conference | National Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Pages 272-277 |
| Country | United States, North America |
ABSTRACT
This first phase of a content analysis of online, asynchronous, educational discussions is designed to generate a method for automatically categorizing messages into cognitive categories using neural network software. This phase of research answers two questions regarding the method of automatically analyzing discussion messages: Can a neural network reliably categorize messages under optimum circumstances, and how can the method be improved to generate great reliability? To determine whether neural network software can reliably categorize messages, two trials were conducted. The first, "best fit" trial, a proof of concept trial comprised only of messages which best fit the categorization model, generated strong reliability figures, and the second, systematic sample, a sample much more indicative of the messages generated in an online educational discussion, produced formative reliability figures from which the method of analysis may be optimized. This analysis also provides a distribution based on cognitive presence categories and subcategories of one semester of graduate online educational messages.| CoI focus | Cognitive presence |
| Methodology | Quantitative |
| Data analysis | Inferential statistics |
| Contribution | Foundational |
| Published at | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Language | English |
| Refereed | Yes |
| URL | https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED470101.pdf |
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