TY - JOUR
T1 - College students' experience of online argumentation
T2 - Conceptions, approaches and the conditions of using question prompts
AU - Tsai, Pei Shan
AU - Tsai, Chin Chung
N1 - Funding Information:
The funding of this study is supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan , under grant contract numbers NSC 100-2511-S-011-004-MY3 and NSC 99-2511-S-011-005-MY3 .
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This study is an initial attempt to explore the relationship between conditions, students' conceptions of and approaches to online argumentation. A total of 45 college students participated in the study. Twenty-one students participated in online argumentation activities with no cognitive tool (in the control condition), and 24 students undertook the same online argumentation tasks with the cognitive tool of question prompts (in the experimental condition). The results showed that in the both conditions, the students with fragmented conceptions tended to adopt surface approaches. Particularly, students in the experimental condition develop potentially deeper approaches, but the conditions with the question prompts probably had little influence on their conceptions of online argumentation.
AB - This study is an initial attempt to explore the relationship between conditions, students' conceptions of and approaches to online argumentation. A total of 45 college students participated in the study. Twenty-one students participated in online argumentation activities with no cognitive tool (in the control condition), and 24 students undertook the same online argumentation tasks with the cognitive tool of question prompts (in the experimental condition). The results showed that in the both conditions, the students with fragmented conceptions tended to adopt surface approaches. Particularly, students in the experimental condition develop potentially deeper approaches, but the conditions with the question prompts probably had little influence on their conceptions of online argumentation.
KW - Approaches to learning
KW - Conceptions of learning
KW - Online argumentation
KW - Phenomenographic method
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U2 - 10.1016/j.iheduc.2012.10.001
DO - 10.1016/j.iheduc.2012.10.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84869865252
VL - 17
SP - 38
EP - 47
JO - Internet and Higher Education
JF - Internet and Higher Education
SN - 1096-7516
IS - 1
ER -