Three emergent roles — leader, social mediator, and peripheral explorer — were identified in online PBL discussions from CoI-coded discourse using latent class analysis.¶

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q2 i? Latent class analysis of nine CoI indicators yielded three best-fitting roles labeled leader, social mediator, and peripheral explorer, with three classes chosen by BIC elbow and entropy of 0.9. → Ramy Elmoazen 2025

Evidence¶

Ramy Elmoazen 2025¶

Ramy Elmoazen, Mohammed Saqr, Laura Hirsto, Matti Tedre. (2025). Capturing temporal pathways of collaborative roles: A multilayered analytical approach using community of inquiry. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-024-09431-6

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Modeling of 24632 CoI-coded annotations from 9301 discussion-board posts by 135 first-year dental students across four courses. LCA in the glca R-package selected three classes "where BIC has the largest decrease" with entropy 0.9 and posterior probabilities 0.98/0.95/0.92.

"The best CA model suggested three roles, which were given the labels of leader, social mediator, and peripheral explorer according to COI indicators"

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