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Students’ Cognitive Thinking in Online Discussion
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, State University of New York - Potsdam, United States

EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Honolulu, HI, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-73-0 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC

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Abstract

This study examined the use of the practical inquiry model in facilitating students’ critical thinking in online discussion. Content analysis was conducted to examine the instances of critical thinking in the four phases of the model. It was found that using the model as discourse guide raised students’ awareness of critical thinking in online discussion. The students who used the model as discourse guide and the students who specified the inquiry phases in their online responses intentionally engaged in higher order thinking than those who had no knowledge about the model.

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Bai, H. (2009). Students’ Cognitive Thinking in Online Discussion. In G. Siemens & C. Fulford (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2009--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 2725-2728). Honolulu, HI, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 10, 2024 from .

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