Exploring relationship between students' questioning behaviors and inquiry tasks in an online forum through analysis of ideational function of questions

Computers and Education

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1675-1685

  Tan, Seng Chee ^a   Seah, Lay Hoon ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Cooperative collaborative learning; Elementary education; Improving classroom teaching

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE/COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; ELEMENTARY STUDENTS; IMPROVING CLASSROOM TEACHING; ONLINE FORUMS;

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 79953872218     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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