This study was to provide the basic data designing online discussion strategy and online teaching and learning system for the leaner by analyzing difference among the times registered message, message content, and satisfaction according to the persona...
This study was to provide the basic data designing online discussion strategy and online teaching and learning system for the leaner by analyzing difference among the times registered message, message content, and satisfaction according to the personality type of the leaner and identifying the factors affected the learner's participation and satisfaction of learning in online discussion according to the personality types.
The research questions to achieve this purpose are as follows :
1. Is there any difference of participation in online discussion learning according to the personality type of the leaner?
1) Is there any difference of the times registered message according to the personality type of the leaner?
2) Is there any difference of the contents of messages according to the personality type of the leaner?
2. Is there any difference of satisfaction in online discussion learning according to the personality type of the leaner?
The subjects were the 211 6th grade students in M elementary school, Pusan.
Their personality types were analyzed by Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children (MMTIC). Based on the analyzed results, four group were set up; Extroversion / U-band / Introversion group, Sensation / U-band / Perceiving group, Thinking / U-band / Feeling group, Judgement / U-band / Perceiving group.
Henri's Analysis Model(1992) was used to analyze the collected messages to know how often the leaner participated. The questionnaire to diagnose satisfaction was conducted after discussion finished. One-way ANOVA and multiple comparison(Turkey test) were used to analyze the research questions.
The results of this study are as belows.
First, as a result to analyze the difference of the times registered message according to the personality type of the leaner in Non-real time Online Discussion, there was no difference between Extroversion-Introversion Indicator(F=1.747, p>.05). But Sensation group in Sensation-Perceiving Indicator(F=4.754, p<.05), feeling group in Thinking-Feeling Indicator(F=6.055, p<.05), judgement group in Judgement-Perceiving Indicator(F=3.262, p<.05) registered more messages than the opposite group.
The contents of messages differentiated among the personality types of the leaner. There was meaningful differences between the Indicators; perceiving dimension(F=3.3194, p<.05) in Extroversion-Introversion Indicator, interactive dimension(F=29.822, p<.05), interactive(F=3.509, p<.05) and perceiving dimension(F=38.220, p<.05) in Thinking-Feeling Indicator, perceiving dimension(F=6.313, p<.05) in Judgement-Perceiving Indicator.
It shows that perceiving function in Sensation-Perceiving, judgement function in Thinking-Feeling and life pattern in Judgement-Perceiving affected participation in online discussion. Therefore considered the various data and strategy for management, the online learning contexts should be designed according to the personality type of the leaner.
Second, the results analyzed satisfaction show no meaningful difference according to the personality types(Extroversion-Introversion F=1.918, p>.05; Sensation-Perceiving F=0.679, p>.05). This results means the learners unexperienced online discussion generally regarded the Web based learning as exciting and good experience. The perceiving burden of the learner makes factors affecting satisfaction, and it has close relationship with the results of learning.