Measuring the educational value of the online discussion groups: a gender analysis
Journal Title: Revista Romana de Interactiune Om-Calculator - Year 2018, Vol 11, Issue 1
Abstract
Social media technologies provide various forms of educational support. Online discussion groups have been created by educators to maintain a closer relationship with the students. Although the online discussion groups are widely used in universities, the research on this topic has been carried on mainly by qualitative studies. There are few approaches measuring the educational support provided by the online discussion groups. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the gender differences in the perception of the educational support provided by the online discussion groups. The educational support has been conceptualized as a global factor that manifests along three dimensions: support for teaching, support for personal development and support for professional formation. An invariance analysis has been carried on that showed a metric invariance of the model. The gender analysis results show that both female and male students consider that the discussion groups stimulate the collaborative learning, facilitates sending the projects to the teacher and stimulates the initiative in learning. Meantime, female students scored higher almost all items.
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Dragos Iordache, Costin Pribeanu
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