Student ratings of the importance of survey items, multiplicative factor analysis, and the validity of the community of inquiry survey

Sebastián R. Díaz; Karen Swan; Philip Ice; Lori Kupczynski

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 13, No. 1 (January 2010) pp. 22–30

This research builds upon prior validation studies of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) survey by utilizing multiple rating measures to validate the survey's tripartite structure (teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence). In prior...

Language: English

The PAR Framework Proof of Concept: Initial Findings from a Multi-Institutional Analysis of Federated Postsecondary Data

Philip Ice; Sebastin Daz; Karen Swan; Melissa Burgess; Mike Sharkey; Jonathan Sherrill; Daniel Huston; Hae Okimoto

Online Learning Journal Vol. 16, No. 3 (Jun 18, 2012)

Despite high enrollment numbers, postsecondary completion rates have generally remained unchanged for the past 30 years and half of these students do not attain a degree within six years of initial enrollment. Although online learning has provided...

Researching Online Communities of Inquiry: New CoI Survey Instrument

Karen Swan; Jennifer Richardson; Philip Ice; Peter Shea; Martha Cleveland-Innes; Sebastian Diaz; Randy Garrison

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5812–5820

The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework developed by Garrison, Anderson and Archer (2000) provides a theoretical model of online learning processes that has been used by many scholars in the field of online education. However, research utilizing...

Topics: Educational Technology, Distance Education, Community, Instructional Design, Networking Technologies

Developing a community of inquiry instrument: Testing a measure of the Community of Inquiry framework using a multi-institutional sample

J.B. Arbaugh; Martha Cleveland-Innes; Sebastian R. Diaz; D. Randy Garrison; Philip Ice; Jennifer C. Richardson; Karen P. Swan

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 11, No. 3 (2008) pp. 133–136

This article reports on the multi-institutional development and validation of an instrument that attempts to operationalize Garrison, Anderson and Archer's Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework (2000). The results of the study suggest that the...

Language: English