A Discourse Analysis of the Online mathmatic courses
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ADiscourseAnalysisoftheOnline
MathematicsClassroom
KathleenH.Offenholley
Downloaded by [Iowa State University] at 11:10 24 January 2015 BoroughofManhattanCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYorkAbstract:ThirteenonlinemathematicsclasseswereanalyzedusingadiscoursecodingsystemcreatedbyBellacketal.(1966).Findingssuggestthattheratioofteacher-to-studentdiscourseisfarlowerinonlinethaninface-to-faceclassesandvarieswidelyfrominstructortoinstructor.Astrongpositivecorrelationwasshownbetweeninstructorpostsandpostsperstudent.Resultspointtothevalueofaparticularkindofinstructorpresenceinanonlineclassandrefutetheideathatmorecollab-orationoccursintheabsenceofaninstructor.Instructorpoststhatwereevaluative(byrating,clarifying,andexpandingwhatwassaid)hadapositivecorrelationwithpostsperstudent,andwhentheinstructor’sevaluationscontainedmoremathemat-ics,sodidthestudent’s.Directanswersfromtheinstructor,ontheotherhand,correlatednegativelywithpostsperstudent.Theidealstyletoencouragestudentposts,collaboration,andengagementwiththematerialseemstobeagentleSocraticquestioning.Fewstudieshaveexaminedwhatitisaboutthefundamentalstructureoflearn-ingonlinethatmakesitsorevolutionaryandappealingforsomeyetsodif?cultforothers.Theauthorcontendsthatbeyondthehypethatonlineclassesarenat-
urallycollaborativeandstudentcentered,studentsneedastrongandspeci?ctypeofinstructordiscussionpresencetobeabletoengagemeaningfullywiththematerialandeachother.Thus,thisresearchwasundertakentoexaminewhattypesandquantityofinstructordiscoursebehaviorsencouragestudentparticipationandinterstudentdiscourse.
CorrespondenceshouldbesenttoKathleenH.Offenholley,BoroughofManhattanCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork,199ChambersStreet,RoomN-522,NewYork,NY10007.E-mail:koffenholley@bmcc.cuny.edu
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DISCOURSEANALYSISOFONLINEMATHEMATICS237LITERATUREREVIEW:ENCOURAGINGPARTICIPATIONANDCOLLABORATIONONLINE
Onlinelearninghasoftenbeenconsideredcollaborativebytheveryvirtueofthefactthat,inasynchronous,onlinediscussions,studentstalkmoreandteacherstalkless(e.g.,Swan2003).Butdoesmorestudentresponsibilityauto-maticallymeanthatstudentswillcollaborateandengagewiththematerial?IntheJournalforResearchinMathematicsEducation,Lobato,Clarke,andEllis(2005)contendedthatthepervasivenotionthatconstructivistlearningisthesameasholdingbackfrom“telling”studentsiserroneous.Theyaf?rmedtheroleoftheteacherwithincollaborativelearningandsawseveralimpor-tantfunctionsofinstructordiscourse,includingsummarizingstudentwork,providingnewinformation,askingaboutstrategies,andengaginginSocraticquestioning.Althoughtheauthorswerewritingaboutface-to-faceclasses,theresearchinonlinelearningtellsasimilarstory.GerryStahl,whohasstudiedcomputer-supportedcollaborativelearningextensively,wrotewithcolleagues,“Theteachermustmotivateandguideeachstudent,throughon-goinginter-actionandasenseofsocialpresence”(Stahl,Koschmann,andSuthers2006,410).GarrisonandCleveland-Innes(2005)studiedseventy-?vegraduatestu-dentsinfouronlineclassesthathaddifferentlevelsofinstructorinteraction.Theyfoundthatwhenateachersteppedinwithgreatersocialpresence,thestudentsadopteddeeperapproachestolearning.ThisresultisinlinewithwhatHenriques(1997,21)termedthe“interactive-constructivistperspective.”
AstudybyYang,Newby,andBill(2005)foundthatwhenonlineinstruc-torsused“Socraticquestioning”(probingquestionsthataskedthestudentstoexplainmore),criticalthinkingincreased,andthisimprovementpersistedevenwhentheinstructorstoppedinthesecondhalfofthesemester.Incon-trast,Angeli,Valanides,andBonk(2003)observedanonlinediscussioninwhich“49%ofstudents’discoursewasunsupportedadviceandpersonalopin-ions”(1).Theauthorsattributedtheseresultstoalackofqualityfacilitation.FahyandAlly(2005)discoveredthat“whentheinstructorprovidedconsider-ablescaffolding(approximatelyone-fourthofhisposts),studentsusedmorere?ections”(10).
Thereisalsoevidencethatstudentsthinkmoredeeplywhentheyinter-actmore.Schrire(2004)foundthathigher-orderthinkingoccurredmorewhentherewassynergisticinteraction,thatis,wherepostswereconnectedtomanyothers,asopposedtopoststhatmostlyaddressedtheinstructor,oneotherstudent,orasmallgroup.Similarly,Swan(2003)analyzedmanystudiesofonlinelearningandfoundacorrelationbetweenperceivedstudentlearningandinteractionwithinstructorsandotherstudents.
Ameta-analysisofonlinelearning(Bernardetal.2004)hasfoundthatstudent-to-instructorinteractionisnotaseffectiveasstudent–studentorstudent–contentinteraction.Yetitisthecontentionofthisauthorthatwithoutacertaintypeofinstructorinteraction,itmaybethatneitherwilloccur.Downloaded by [Iowa State University] at 11:10 24 January 2015
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238OFFENHOLLEYMETHOD
Thirteenonlinemathematicsclasseswereobserved,involvingsevendifferentinstructors,197students,andatotalof4,070instructorandstudentposts.Theclassesconsistedofliberalartsmath,statistics,andcollegealgebra,alltypi-calcoursesfor?rst-andsecond-yearstudents.Instructorswithmorethantwoyears’experienceinonlineteachingwerechosensothatthediscoursepat-ternswouldbelesslikelytobeconfoundedbyalackofunderstandingofthebasicsofonlineteaching.Althoughthesampleofinstructorsandcourseswasnotrandom,therangeofinstructorswasneverthelessbroadenoughtogivea“snapshot”ofsomeofthetypesofdiscoursepossibleinonlineclasses.ThreeoftheinstructorswerefromDeVryUniversity,afor-pro?tinstitution;therestwerefrompubliccommunitycolleges;twoclassesweretaughtbytheauthor.
EachclasswassimilarinstructuretowhatPalloffandPratt(2001)describedasatypicalonlineclass.Studentsweretoldtoreadtheonlinemate-rialsandthetextbookandtodoassignedhomeworkquestions.Lectureshadminimalinteraction.Someclassestookadvantageofinteractivetutorialexer-cisesandhomeworkfromthetextbookpublisherorhadshortmultiple-choicequizzesthatthestudentscouldtaketohelpcheckunderstanding.Eachclassincludedanasynchronousdiscussionboard.
Postsineachclass’sdiscussionboardwererandomlychosenfromthemiddlethirdofthesemester,anonymized,andcodedmanually.Themiddlethirdofthesemesterwaschosenbecausestudentswouldbeusedtothewayonlinepostingworkedatthatpointbuthopefullynotyethavedroppedtheclassorstoppedpostingasmuch.Randomthreadswerechosensothatawhole“conversation”couldbeobserved.Intheinterestofminimizingresearcherbias,severalcoderswereengagedandinterraterreliabilitywastested;theresearcherdidnotdoanyofthecoding.
ThecodingsystemusedwasbasedonBellacketal.’s(1966)groundbreak-ingworkondiscourseanalysis.Bellackandhiscolleaguesappliedtheirmodelto?fteenhighschooleconomicsclasses,andFey(1970)continuedtheworkofBellacketal.inobservationsofjuniorhighschoolmathematicsclasses.Otherdiscoursecodingsystemswereavailable(e.g.,Schrire2004),butusingasystemthathadbeenusedinface-to-facemathematicsclassesallowedthisresearchertocompareonlinemathematicsclassdiscoursewithface-to-faceclasses.Inaddition,thesystemwassimilartooneusedwithsomesuccessonlinebyFahy,Crawford,andAlly(2001)andfurtherdescribedinFahyandAlly(2005).
Codes
Thecodingsystemusedinthisresearchwasasfollows:
●Downloaded by [Iowa State University] at 11:10 24 January 2015 AcodeofSOLwasusedtodesignateasolicitingpost.Thistypeofpostwasdesignedtoelicitinformationoraction—aquestionorcommandto
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