Evaluating the Reliability of a Social Presence Composite Construct for Online Computer Science Degree Programmes
Joshua D. Reichard,
Mishack T. Gumbo
Abstract:As a contribution to ongoing discussions about the implications of social presence for online instruction technology, this study evaluated the reliability and validity of a composite social presence construct in online computer science programmes using archival data from the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP) Data Buddies Survey. Questions from the survey were aligned to three interdependent subconstructs of social presence proposed by Kreijns et al (2021)… Show more
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