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Record W1665201246

Use of Instructional Dialogue by University Students in a Distance Education Chemistry Course

2004· article· en· W1665201246 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational journal of e-learning & distance education · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicInnovative Teaching and Learning Methods
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIntrapersonal communicationInterpersonal communicationPsychologyPedagogyHumanitiesInterpersonal interactionChemistryMathematics educationSocial psychologyPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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A distance education system may be viewed in terms of intrapersonal and interpersonal instructional dialogues that mediate the learning and instructional resources that enable such dialogues. Instructional resources include self-instruction texts, tutorial sessions, instructor availability, Web sites, and more. This study investigated the kinds of dialogues engaged in by Open University students and the kinds of resources they used while studying an intermediate-level chemistry course. Research objectives were to document (a) what study strategies if any, involving which resources and dialogues, were generally used by students; (b) what dialogue types, enabled through which resources, were specifically used by students to overcome conceptual difficulties; and (c) how the use of resources and dialogues in the chemistry course compared with students’ experiences in other science courses. It was found that all students initially chose individual study characterized by intrapersonal dialogue. Only when individual study failed did students opt for interpersonal dialogue. This finding conflicts with the assumed importance often ascribed to interpersonal dialogue by some distance education theorists. Un systeme d’education a distance peut etre vu en termes de dialogues pedagogi- ques intrapersonnels et interpersonnels qui servent d’intermediaires entre l’apprentissage et les ressources pedagogiques qui rendent possibles de tels dialogues. Les ressources pedagogiques incluent les textes d’autoapprentissage, les sessions de tutorat, la disponibilite du professeur, les sites Web, etc. L’etude a examine, dans le cadre d’un cours de chimie de niveau intermediaire dans une universite par correspondance, les types de dialogue qu’engagent les etudiants et le type de ressources qu’ils utilisent. Les objectifs de l’etude etaient de documenter (a) quelles strategies d’apprentissage, si existantes, impliquant quelles ressources et quels dialogues, etaient generalement utilisees par les etudiants, (b) quels types de dialogues, rendus possibles par le bais de quelles ressources, etaient specifiquement utilises par les etudiants pour surmonter les difficultes conceptuelles, et (c) comment l’utilisation de ressources et de dialogues dans le cours de chimie pouvait-elle se comparer avec les experiences des etudiants d’autres cours de science. Les resultats ont montre que tous les etudiants avaient initialement choisi l’apprentissage individuel caracterise par le dialogue intrapersonnel. Les etudiants ont opte pour le dialogue interpersonnel seulement quand l’apprentissage individuel n’avait pas reussi. Ce resultat de recherche entre en conflit avec les idees de certains theoriciens en eduction a distance qui, souvent, attribuent de l’importance au dialogue interpersonnel.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.210
Threshold uncertainty score0.625

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.367
Teacher spread0.348 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it