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Strategies for Grading Online Discussions: Effects on Discussions and Classroom Community in Internet-Based University Courses
Alfred P. Rovai
Journal of Computing in Higher Education Vol. 15, No. 1 (2003) pp. 89–107
Investigated how different strategies for grading online discussions influenced both the discussions and sense of classroom community in 18 graduate-level courses delivered at a distance. Found that there were significantly more discussions per...
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Online and traditional assessments: what is the difference?
Alfred P. Rovai
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 3, No. 3 (2000) pp. 141–151
This article identifies the major principles of general assessment theory, examines how these principles can be applied to an online environment, and identifies and describes several assessment issues that have special significance in a virtual...
Language: English
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The relationships of communicator style, personality-based learning style, and classroom community among online graduate students
Alfred P. Rovai
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 6, No. 4 pp. 347–363
This study examined the relationships among communicator style, personality-based learning style, and sense of classroom community among 72 graduate students enrolled in online doctoral coursework. Findings suggested that communicator style patterns ...
Language: English
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A practical framework for evaluating online distance education programs
Alfred P. Rovai
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 6, No. 2 (2003) pp. 109–124
The case is presented for distance education administrators that evaluation is an essential element of successful distance education programs. A synthesis of the program evaluation and distance education research literature is used to form a...
Language: English
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Facilitating online discussions effectively
Alfred P. Rovai
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 10, No. 1 (2007) pp. 77–88
This article presents a synthesis of the theoretical and research literature on facilitating asynchronous online discussions effectively. Online courses need to be designed so that they provide motivation for students to engage in productive...
Language: English
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Building Classroom Community at a Distance: A Case Study
Alfred P. Rovai
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 49, No. 4 (2001) pp. 33–48
Describes a study that analyzed a graduate education course taught entirely at a distance via the Internet to explore the dynamics of sense of classroom community. Findings indicated that the sense of community grew significantly during the course,...
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Sense of Community in a Higher Education Television-Based Distance Education Program
Alfred P. Rovai; Robert Lucking
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 51, No. 2 (2003) pp. 5–16
Describes a study that measured sense of community in a television-based undergraduate distance education course and in the same course taught by the same instructor in a traditional face-to-face learning environment. Reports results of pretests and ...
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Why some distance education programs fail while others succeed in a global environment
Alfred P. Rovai; James R. Downey
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 13, No. 3 (June 2010) pp. 141–147
Many universities increase their recruiting efforts to reach a larger and more diverse audience. Some universities also extend their reach with cross-border initiatives and seek international students in order to promote enrollment growth and global ...
Language: English
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Gender Differences in Online Learning: Sense of Community, Perceived Learning, and Interpersonal Interactions
Alfred P. Rovai; Jason D. Baker
Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 6, No. 1 (2005) pp. 31–44
Multivariate statistical analyses were used to determine if there were differences in social community, learning community, and perceived learning between male and female students in 12 online graduate education courses in which female students (n = ...
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Feelings of alienation and community among higher education students in a virtual classroom
Alfred P. Rovai; Mervyn J. Wighting
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 8, No. 2 (2005) pp. 97–110
Although the professional literature identifies feelings of alienation and low sense of community as factors that help explain relatively low student persistence rates in distance education programs, no studies have attempted to investigate the...
Language: English
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The Relationship of Personality-Based Learning Style Preferences and Learning among Online Graduate Students
Alfred P. Rovai; Linda D. Grooms
Journal of Computing in Higher Education Vol. 16, No. 1 (September 2004) pp. 30–47
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of personality-based learning styles and learning among graduate students enrolled in an online doctoral program that utilized the Blackboard[SM] e-learning system. Two measures of learning-...
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Learning and Sense of Community: A Comparative Analysis of African American and Caucasian Online Graduate Students
Alfred P. Rovai; Louis B. Gallien
Journal of Negro Education Vol. 74, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2005) pp. 53–62
A study addressed how four variables used to operationalize learning and sense of community differed between African American and Caucasian students enrolled in an online graduate course. The African American only section of the course and the...
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How Christianly Is Christian Distance Higher Education?
Alfred P. Rovai; Jason D. Baker; William F. Cox
Christian Higher Education Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 2008) pp. 1–22
The study reported in this paper investigated sense of community and perceived learning in on-campus and online courses at both a Christian university and a state university using a population of graduate students (N = 350). Results suggest that the ...
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School Climate: Sense of Classroom and School Communities in Online and On-Campus Higher Education Courses
Alfred P. Rovai; Mervyn J. Wighting; Jing Liu
Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 6, No. 4 (2005) pp. 361–374
Multivariate statistical analyses were used to determine if there were differences in sense of community and perceived learning between university students enrolled in fully online and fully face-to-face on-campus courses (N = 279). Study results...
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Distinguishing Sense of Community and Motivation Characteristics between Online and Traditional College Students
Mervyn J. Wighting; Jing Liu; Alfred P. Rovai
Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 9, No. 3 (2008) pp. 285–295
Discriminant analysis was used to determine whether classifications could be made between students enrolled in e-learning and in face-to-face university courses (N = 353) based on their scores from separate instruments measuring sense of community...
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The Classroom and School Community Inventory: Development, refinement, and validation of a self-report measure for educational research
Alfred P. Rovai; Mervyn J. Wighting; Robert Lucking
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 7, No. 4 (2004) pp. 263–280
The development and validation of an instrument designated as the Classroom and School Community Inventory (CSCI) are described. Scores on both the classroom form and the school form of the CSCI possess strong content validity, construct validity,...
Language: English
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A comparison of student evaluations of teaching between online and face-to-face courses
Henry F. Kelly; Michael K. Ponton; Alfred P. Rovai
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 10, No. 2 (2007) pp. 89–101
The literature contains indications of a bias in student evaluations of teaching (SET) against online instruction compared to face-to-face instruction. The present case study consists of content analysis of anonymous student responses to open-ended...
Language: English
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Student Comments on Anonymous Course Evaluations: Online vs. F2F
Nancy E. Rhea; Alfred P. Rovai; Michael K. Ponton; M. Gail Derrick; John M. Davis
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 2362–2368
The purpose of this study was to determine if the nature of student comments on anonymous end-of-course evaluations differed relative to course delivery medium. Comments evaluated were submitted by 202 graduate students enrolled in face-to-face ...
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Student evaluation of teaching in the virtual and traditional classrooms: A comparative analysis
Alfred P. Rovai; Michael K. Ponton; M. Gail Derrick; John M. Davis
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 9, No. 1 (2006) pp. 23–35
The present case study consists of the content analysis of anonymous student responses to open-ended evaluation of teaching questions submitted by 202 students for fully online and on-campus versions of the same graduate courses taught by the same...
Language: English
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Development of an instrument to measure perceived cognitive, affective, and psychomotor learning in traditional and virtual classroom higher education settings
Alfred P. Rovai; Mervyn J. Wighting; Jason D. Baker; Linda D. Grooms
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 12, No. 1 (January 2009) pp. 7–13
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a self-report instrument that can be used to measure learning in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. The study underwent three phases, each with its own data collection and...
Language: English