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- Title
In-Service Teachers and Computer Mediated Discussions: Ranges and Purposes of Reflection.
- Authors
Gaoyin Qian; Liqing Tao
- Abstract
The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand discourse types (i.e., factual, prudential and justificatory) of in-service teachers in the graduate program in literacy education when they engaged in Computer Mediated Discussion (CMD). This study also sought to uncover the Mnd of support that CMD provided, and to identify their attitudes towards and feelings about such forms of discussion based on their online journal entries and responses to a questionnaire. Fourteen graduate students participated in a weekly reflection for 10 weeks on the readings and on the literacy development of the children they selected for ease study. Results indicated that in-service teachers' discourse types differed in quality but not in quantity over time, and that in-service teachers used CMD as a place where they could seek for academic and affective support. Issues about use of CMD were also identified and addressed.
- Subjects
TEACHERS; QUALITATIVE research; COMPUTER assisted instruction; LITERACY; GRADUATE education; GRADUATE study in education
- Publication
Reading Horizons, 2005, Vol 46, Issue 2, p115
- ISSN
0034-0502
- Publication type
Article