Designing A Supportive Blended Learning Experience: The Relationship Between Student Performance and Social, Teacher, and Cognitive Presence

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dc.contributor.advisorOwston, Ron
dc.contributor.advisorMorbey, Mary Leigh
dc.creatorSengara, Michelle
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-27T12:26:42Z
dc.date.available2017-07-27T12:26:42Z
dc.date.copyright2016-09-08
dc.date.issued2017-07-27
dc.date.updated2017-07-27T12:26:41Z
dc.degree.disciplineEducation
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis study sought to deconstruct the educational experience in a blended classroom (with both online and face-to-face instruction) in order to test for specific associations between elements of that experience and achievement (final course grade). The Community of Inquiry (CoI) (Garrison, 2011) framework considers a students educational experience as a combination of social, cognitive, and teacher interactions. Working with a large data set (n = 1,926) collected over three years (2011-2014) in 13 undergraduate, blended classrooms at a prominent Canadian university, this study examined how student perceptions of these interactions (with peers, course content, and instructors) related to grades. Using data modelling techniques, results showed a significant, and direct (path coefficient of 0.16, p<0.001) relationship between presence and grade, with results on the presence interrelationship [teacher social (0.23, p < 0.001), and social cognitive (0.45, p < 0.001)] highlighting the role of teacher presence in promoting achievement. Student adoption attitudes also presented as a key consideration in the presence-achievement relationship (0.41, p <0.001), as well as blend format (F=29.98, p < 0.001), where the more integrated, clear, communicative, and consistent a course was about expectations and assessments, the more presence students felt and in turn, the higher those formats performed.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/33379
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectHigher education
dc.subject.keywordsBlended Learning
dc.subject.keywordsCommunity of Inquiry
dc.subject.keywordsCognitive Presence
dc.subject.keywordsSocial Presence
dc.subject.keywordsTeacher Presence
dc.subject.keywordsAchievement
dc.titleDesigning A Supportive Blended Learning Experience: The Relationship Between Student Performance and Social, Teacher, and Cognitive Presence
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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