Help Seeking from Peers in an Online Class: Roles of Students’ Help-seeking Profiles and Epistemic Beliefs
Help seeking is a self-regulated learning strategy, and peer help is an important form of interaction in online education. Yet, students often do not seek help even at the cost of lower performance. To understand the factors behind online students’ commitment to peer help, this study implemented a p...
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| description | Help seeking is a self-regulated learning strategy, and peer help is an important form of interaction in online education. Yet, students often do not seek help even at the cost of lower performance. To understand the factors behind online students’ commitment to peer help, this study implemented a peer-help discussion forum in an online course and investigated the relationship among students’ help-seeking profiles, epistemic beliefs (EB), and their actual participation in peer help. The findings revealed a significant relationship between students’ EB and the number of response posts in the peer-help forum. Moreover, EB moderated the relationship between students’ help-seeking profiles and the number of response posts. Theoretical and practical implications are drawn from the findings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c64ba1c6dc4d460c930396635edf30972022-12-22T03:01:50ZengInternational Forum of Educational Technology & SocietyEducational Technology & Society1176-36471436-45222022-07-01253114Help Seeking from Peers in an Online Class: Roles of Students’ Help-seeking Profiles and Epistemic BeliefsKun Huang0Victor Law1University of Kentucky, USAUniversity of New Mexico, USAHelp seeking is a self-regulated learning strategy, and peer help is an important form of interaction in online education. Yet, students often do not seek help even at the cost of lower performance. To understand the factors behind online students’ commitment to peer help, this study implemented a peer-help discussion forum in an online course and investigated the relationship among students’ help-seeking profiles, epistemic beliefs (EB), and their actual participation in peer help. The findings revealed a significant relationship between students’ EB and the number of response posts in the peer-help forum. Moreover, EB moderated the relationship between students’ help-seeking profiles and the number of response posts. Theoretical and practical implications are drawn from the findings.https://www.j-ets.net/collection/published-issues/25_3#h.hjsfyq1y7980help seekingepistemic beliefsonline educationself-regulationpeer helponline discussion |
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| title | Help Seeking from Peers in an Online Class: Roles of Students’ Help-seeking Profiles and Epistemic Beliefs |
| title_full | Help Seeking from Peers in an Online Class: Roles of Students’ Help-seeking Profiles and Epistemic Beliefs |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Help Seeking from Peers in an Online Class: Roles of Students’ Help-seeking Profiles and Epistemic Beliefs |
| title_short | Help Seeking from Peers in an Online Class: Roles of Students’ Help-seeking Profiles and Epistemic Beliefs |
| title_sort | help seeking from peers in an online class roles of students help seeking profiles and epistemic beliefs |
| topic | help seeking epistemic beliefs online education self-regulation peer help online discussion |
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