Students post significantly more in online discussion forums when instructor posts use standard auto-generated subject titles rather than personalized subject headings¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r1–r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? A paired samples t-test across four instructors' course pairs found a significant difference in average student posts between personalized and nonpersonalized subject-heading conditions, with higher means in the nonpersonalized condition. → Evans 2015 q2 i? Descriptive means show average posts per student ranged from 57.13 to 66.36 in nonpersonalized sections and 51.33 to 63.33 in personalized sections. → Evans 2015 (2)

Evidence¶

Evans 2015¶

Evans, S., Steele, J., Robertson, S., & Dyer, T. (2015). Personalizing Post Titles in the Online Classroom: A Best Practice? Journal of Educators Online. https://www.thejeo.com

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Paired samples t-test in SPSS comparing each of four instructors' courses with and without personalized post titles, in a between-groups design across eight iterations of one online critical thinking course. The article reports "t(3) = 7.189, p < 0.05"; no effect size is printed.

"There was a significant difference between the average number of student posts for each instructor's courses with and without personalized discussion posts (t(3) = 7.189, p < 0.05)."

Evans 2015 (2)¶

Evans, S., Steele, J., Robertson, S., & Dyer, T. (2015). Personalizing Post Titles in the Online Classroom: A Best Practice? Journal of Educators Online. https://www.thejeo.com

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Paired descriptive statistics for the four instructor pairs: nonpersonalized M = 63.54 (SD = 4.35) versus personalized M = 59.26 (SD = 5.39). Section-level averages ranged "57.13 to 66.36" nonpersonalized and "51.33 to 63.33" personalized.

"Table 4 shows that the mean was higher for student participation posts when instructors did not customize the title of posts (M = 63.54, SD = 4.35) than for when posts were customized by instructors (M = 59.26, SD = 5.39)."

Discussion¶

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