Building models explaining student participation behavior in asynchronous online discussion

Computers and Education

Volumn 94, Issue , 2016, Pages 241-251

  Goggins, Sean ^a   Xing, Wanli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchronous online discussion; Collective efficacy; Partial least squares; Social ability; Social cognitive theory

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STUDENTS;

ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE DISCUSSION; COLLECTIVE EFFICACY; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); SOCIAL ABILITIES; SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EID: 84955576150     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2015.11.002     Document Type: Article

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