Reasons for Participation: Experiences from a Student Teacher Web Forum

Abstract

A web case forum was built to encourage experience sharing of student teachers during the internship. Web tracking logs, observation, and questionnaires were used to assess levels of participating. Student teachers were divided into two groups of active and not-so-active participants according to their log-in times. Their patterns of participation and reasons for participation were analyzed. It was found that for more active participants, their perception of the web case forum were more positive. Constraints and benefits were analyzed to understand the reasons for participation.