期刊名称:International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
电子版ISSN:1812-9129
出版年度:2017
卷号:29
期号:1
页码:145-153
出版社:International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning
摘要:The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationships among measures of studentengagement, instructor engagement, student performance, and properties of the online classroom.The authors assessed behavioral, cognitive, and emotional engagement of students and instructors inasynchronous discussion forums and collected measures of student performance (e.g., classcompletion and discussion forums’ grades) as well as properties of the online classroom (e.g., classsize and depth of discussion prompts). Quantitative analyses on conduct exhibited by instructors andstudents in discussion forums from 303 online classrooms in a variety of disciplines revealed apositive association of students’ cognitive engagement and instructors’ behavioral engagement withthe depth of the discussion prompts. Both cognitive and behavioral measures of students’engagement decreased with increased class size. For instructors, as class size increased, behavioralengagement decreased, and cognitive engagement increased. Grades improved with students’emotional engagement but declined with instructors’ cognitive engagement. These idiosyncraticpatterns of relationships suggest the need for further inquiry into the unique aspects of instruction inthe asynchronous online classroom