YOUR FIRST SERVES: MAJOR FINDINGS
- overall, analyze and criticize posts predominated
- there was a balance of post types for the first two posts of the week
- criticize predominated in the final post of the week
- all of the students who posted multiple times used a different mode each time
- 3/4's of the posts were identified using the five-eyes rubric
- many students were able to recognize diversity in their posts
- about 1/4 of the students reported consciously diversifying their posts
- course goals can be identified as the reason given for the diversity in a substantial number of responses
- 1/2 the students used the survey as an occasion to appraise their work and to form specific plans for the future
- the rhetoric of conflict -- the "deride and conquer" approach to interaction -- was quite visible
