Operationalising Research

  • Findings of Warschauer's Study
    • cmc enhances equality of participation

    • (eg) Filipinas levels of participation decreased, those of the other nationalities increased

  • NB equality of participation was actually lower in cmc than in f2f mode for 1 of the four groups

  • NB note problems with sampling outlined above

  • NB many other problems, including a lack of adequate attention to the shift from speech to writing in the change from f2f to cmc

from: Warschauer's sampling 2