“ Hits ” (not “ Discussion Posts ” ) predict student success in online courses: A double cross-validation study Source: Computers & Education 50 (2008) 1174 – 1182 Authors: Cheryl Ramos, Errol Yudko Speaker: Cheng-Yee Lee

Introduction  Interaction plays important role in e- learning environment  There are some kinds of tool for interaction, like , chat room, discussion board  The pervious two have shown their positive effect to grade, while the last one has yielded an mixed result

Introduction  This research is trying to investigate the effect of discussion board that affect learning performance

Research model GradeReadsPostPage Hit GradeReadsPostPage Hit = = Psychopharmacology Community Psychology

Research model GradeReadsPostPage Hit GradeReadsPostPage Hit = = Psychopharmacology Community Psychology Data of students in Community Psychology Data of students in Psychopharmacology

Research architecture WebCT system Content pageDiscussion board Page HitPost Read

Research architecture  Community Psychology 1 semester+2 month summer Lectures are weekly posted Weekly exam and topics for discussion  Psychopharmacology 6 weeks summer course Weekly exam

Result Community Psychology

Result Community Psychology

Result Psychopharmacology

Result Psychopharmacology

Conclusion and discussion  Only page hit has significant effect to grade A possible reason is that it is simply because “ frequency of page hit = frequency of study times ”

Bloom ’ s (1956) taxonomy of educational objectives  for categorizing the cognitive levels evidenced in the contents of group discussion Knowledge Comprehension application Analysis Synthesis evaluation High Low