Students communicate more frequently but with lower-quality content in the synchronous chat room than in the asynchronous discussion forum¶
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q3 i1 Chat messages have significantly shorter sentences than forum messages (3.74 vs 4.80 words per sentence, d=-0.288). → Wen Wu 2019
q3 i1 Forum messages contain more social and cognitive process words than chat messages, and a higher proportion of fully-engaged sentences. → 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
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Mann-Whitney U test comparing message content across tools for the 164-student cohort; the printed effect size is d=-0.288, a small effect, so impact is 1.
"the average sentence length of messages in the chat room is shorter than that of messages in the discussion forum (3.74 vs. 4.80). As the data are not normally distributed, we adopted the Mann-Whitney U test and observe a significant difference (Z=-2.611, p=0.009, d=-0.288)"
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 · i1 · associational · r2
Mann-Whitney tests on CLIWC-coded message content: social and cognitive process word differences significant with small effect sizes (d=-0.292, d=-0.295); the affective-word difference was not significant (p=0.371).
"students used more social process words (M=0.73 vs. 0.52 in chat messages, Z=-2.643, p =0.008, d=-0.292), affective process words (0.49 vs. 0.40, Z=-0.894, p=0.371, d=-0.099), and cognitive process words (1.88 vs. 1.60, Z=-2.668, p =0.007, d=-0.295) than in messages posted in chat room"
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Forum discussion contains more social and regulative comments and longer messages; anchored discussion is briefer with more messages — related
- Conscientiousness and Extraversion positively predict chat message posting, while Extraversion positively predicts forum posting — related
- Synchronous online discussions produce higher behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement than asynchronous online discussions in online math courses — related
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synchronous-vs-asynchronous-communication-quality |
title |
Students communicate more frequently but with lower-quality content in the synchronous chat room than in the asynchronous discussion forum |
description |
Students communicate more frequently but with lower-quality content in the synchronous chat room than in the asynchronous discussion forum |
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2019 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-28 |
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2 — wen-wu-2019, wen-wu-2019-2 |
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