COI survey.
Can someone explain more deeply what is the difference (goals of these questions) between:
6. The instructor was helpful in guiding the class towards understanding course topics in a way that helped me clarify my thinking.
8. The instructor helped keep the course participants on task in a way that helped me to learn.
Both focus on the help of instructor in a form of gudance to help student think and learn. I am having a hard time translating these questions in our language.
Thanks
Mitja
December 5, 2013 – Reply from Randy Garrison
Mitia,
Apparently you had a question with regards to two of the items in the CoI questionnaire.
Both are facilitation questions; therefore, it is an issue of nuance and hard to offer advice re translation.
As you know when constructing such questionnaires we try to write similar questions that will correlate with the category we are trying to reflect.
For that reason I would simply focus on being sure the translation of the items reflect facilitation as defined by the teaching presence construct.
I hope that is helpful.
All the best,
DRG
