Students used the synchronous chat room far more than other communication tools, while discussion forum use was relatively low¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r1–r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Chat message posting was the most frequent activity (mean 71.46 times), versus 17.8 times taking notes and 2.10 forum messages. → Wen Wu 2019 q3 i? 99.3% of students posted at least one chat message, while only 42.1% used the discussion forum. → Wen Wu 2019 (2)

Evidence¶

Wen Wu 2019¶

Wen Wu, Li Chen, Qingchang Yang, You Li. (2019). Inferring Students' Personality from Their Communication Behavior in Web-based Learning Systems. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-018-00173-9

q3 · i? · associational · r1

Descriptive log analysis of the 164-student cohort's activity over the whole course (Table 3), reporting mean frequencies per activity. Descriptive means only, no inferential test, so impact is null.

"the frequency of posting messages in the chat room is largely higher than other activities, with a mean of 71.46 times, vs. average 17.8 times of taking notes, 3.54 times of sharing materials, 2.10 messages posted in the discussion forum, 1.49 times of using hands-up facility, and 1.02 times of sharing notes."

Wen Wu 2019 (2)¶

Wen Wu, Li Chen, Qingchang Yang, You Li. (2019). Inferring Students' Personality from Their Communication Behavior in Web-based Learning Systems. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-018-00173-9

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Descriptive participation rates from the same log analysis; the article separately reports 42.1% of students used the discussion forum and 96.3% submitted assignments. Descriptive percentages only.

"99.3% of the students posted at least one message in the chat room. 73.8% of the students took course notes, and 21.3% of these students shared their written notes with others at least once."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Conscientiousness and Extraversion positively predict chat message posting, while Extraversion positively predicts forum posting — related
• Collaborative features of Lab4CE saw very little use in the exploratory study — related
• Participation in Bazaar synchronous chat sessions is associated with roughly a 50 percent lower risk of dropout in an edX MOOC — related
• In-class chat engagement significantly predicts higher test scores in MAIC courses — related