About this table

Description	12-item self-report scale of online discussion-facilitation behaviors (1-5 Likert frequency), from a survey of N=117 college instructors.
Reference	DeCamp W, Horvitz B, Garza Mitchell R, Kowalske M, Singleton C (2022) Development of a self-report instrument for measuring online teaching practices and discussion facilitation. PLoS ONE.
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0275880
Licence	CC BY 4.0
Source data	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?type=supplementary&id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275880.s002

Size and shape

Responses	1,403
Respondents	117
Items	12
Response categories	5
Responses per respondent	11.991
Responses per item	116.917
Density	0.999
Longitudinal	FALSE

Classification

sample	Workplace
measurement tool	Survey/questionnaire
item format	Likert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)	eng

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

Instrument	Online Teaching Practices Instrument (DeCamp et al., 2022): discussion facilitation contributions
Mean words per item	12.083
Mean characters per item	87.167
Mean characters per response	6.200
Flesch-Kincaid grade level	13.536

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, decamp_2022_online_discussion.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

Column	What it is	Source column
IRW standard columns
`id`	IRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).	`SampleIDNumb`
`item`	IRW standard Item identifier.	made in the build script
`resp`	IRW standard Response value.	made in the build script
Respondent covariates
`cov_contingent`	Covariate	`contingent`
`cov_female`	Covariate `0` = Male · `1` = Female	`Female`
`cov_num_students`	Covariate	`numberstudents`
`cov_racial_minority`	Covariate	`racialminority`
`cov_tenure_track`	Covariate	`tenuretrack`
`cov_times_taught`	Covariate	`timestaught`
`cov_years_online`	Covariate	`yearsonline`
`cov_years_teaching`	Covariate	`yearsteaching`

Covariate value labels are the source’s own, as the IRW recorded them. What item codes and any unlabelled values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.

Get the data

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Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("decamp_2022_online_discussion")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("decamp_2022_online_discussion")

How to cite

@article{DeCamp_2022, title={Development of a self-report instrument for measuring online teaching practices and discussion facilitation}, volume={17}, ISSN={1932-6203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275880}, DOI={10.1371/journal.pone.0275880}, number={10}, journal={PLOS ONE}, publisher={Public Library of Science (PLoS)}, author={DeCamp, Whitney and Horvitz, Brian and Garza Mitchell, Regina L. and Kowalske, Megan Grunert and Singleton, Cherrelle}, editor={Luo, Heng}, year={2022}, month=Oct, pages={e0275880} }

Version and provenance

IRW version	v549
Redivis dataset	item_response_warehouse_4 v13.0
Redivis dataset DOI	10.57761/w8zx-td92
Manifest pin for this IRW version	v13.0
Metadata source	irw_meta v39.0