Verifying Causal Relationships Among the Presences of the Community of Inquiry Framework in the Chinese Context

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning

Lili Kong¹  Yajie Wu¹  Jing Wang¹  Hao Yang¹  Qiyun Wang¹  Zhiqiang Ma² 

[1] ;jiangnan university;

关键词: community of inquiry;    learning presence;    social presence;    teaching presence;   

DOI  :  10.19173/irrodl.v18i6.3197

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this study was to verify a Chinese version of Community of Inquiry (CoI) instrument with learning presence and explore the causal relationships of the factors in the instrument. This study first examined the reliability and validity of the instrument. All four presences had acceptable levels of reliability (all Cronbach's α> .765 or higher). The confirmatory factor modeling approach was used to assess its validity. Then, the study used path analysis and regression analysis to explore the causal relationships of the presences. The key findings showed that teaching and social presences directly influenced the perceptions of learning presence. Learning presence was a partial mediating variable of interactional relationship within CoI constructs.

【 授权许可】

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