| dc.description.abstract | The practical enquiry model describes a process by which experience leads to
understanding though a cyclical process of deliberation-action, perception- conception.
The four-phases cycle begins with a triggering event, moves through exploration and, as
exploration reveals possible insights, integration, and concludes with resolution. Using
the practical inquiry model as conceptual grounding, in this study Garrison, Anderson
& Archer’s (2001) procedure for analyzing conference transcripts at the message level
was compared with a sentence-level method, using the Transcript Analysis Tool (TAT).
Three categories of the TAT were developed, aligning it with the critical inquiry model
under different assumptions about and interpretations of the model’s four phases. One
of the alignments was shown to accord almost perfectly with the critical inquiry model,
with both procedures showing that exploration was most common, followed by
integration, triggers and resolution. Other alignments showed different proportions,
suggesting that further research (preferably at the sentence level) might be useful in
establishing the variation of the proportions of the model’s elements in online
interactions of different types and purposes, conducted under different conditions of
social and moderator presence. | en |
