Using Epistemic Synchronization Index (ESI) to measure students' knowledge elaboration process in CSCL

Ning Ding; Jieqiang Wei; Marca Wolfensberger

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2014.08.004

Using Epistemic Synchronization Index (ESI) to measure students' knowledge elaboration process in CSCL

Ning Ding^*, Jieqiang Wei, Marca Wolfensberger

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Abstract

Researchers in CSCL have used a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to track students' cognitive involvement during collaboration. However, neither individual method suffices the need to capture the dynamic evolvement of students' epistemic engagement in CSCL. We developed Epistemic Synchronization Index (ESI) to quantify students' epistemic engagement and evolvement. ESI reveals the knowledge elaboration process of groups, and it helps researchers as well as teachers to distinguish epistemic involvement between members within one group.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	122-131
Number of pages	10
Journal	Computers & Education
Volume	80
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2014.08.004
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014

Keywords

Content analysis
CSCL
Epistemic engagement
Knowledge elaboration
Sequential analysis

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