Higher-order thinking in synchronous online discussion

<p>This Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved study identified higher-order thinking skills in COMP and TCOM students’ synchronous online discussion, where higher-order thinking skills were measured in students’ writing throughout a dynamic process as well as from a final product. Using the revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in English Composition (COMP) and Introduction to Technical Communication (TCOM) writing classrooms, synchronous online discussions were coded. Information was gathered from classes at a university in Northwestern United States. A quantitative experimental design was used in order to determine if the two different writing courses produced similar results. The results confirm that there is higher-order thinking in synchronous online discussion and that writing courses can encourage the development of different higher-order thinking skills.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA) in English: Rhetoric and Technical Communication

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis: EWU Only

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year

2019

Author dc:creator

• Rowley, Kathy L.

• Interpersonal and Small Group Communication
• Rhetoric and Composition

Statement dc:rights

• Access perpetually restricted to EWU users with an active EWU NetID

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.ewu.edu/theses/593

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dc.ewu.edu:theses-1592