Raising the bar: Encouraging high level thinking in online discussion forums

By M. Christopher, Julie A. Thomas, Mary K. Tallent-Runnels. 2004

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Teaching Courses Online: A Review of the Research (2006, background): “Cooper (1999) provided online resources and course materials in folders for each week of the course.”
Academic motivation and self-regulation: A comparative analysis of undergraduate and graduate students learning online (2009, methodology): “That said, Christopher et al. (2004) found that higher level discussion prompts (i.e., prompts that modeled a high level of critical thinking) had no effect on the level of graduate students' responses, as coded using a rubric developed from Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning.”
Effective Online Instructional and Assessment Strategies (2007, methodology): “The use of rubrics in effective assessments is supported by Christopher, Thomas, and Tallent-Runnels (2004 ) and MacKinnon (2002 ), who argued that rubrics must be carefully prepared to assess learning and promote critical thinking.”