Table 5 Mean Scores and Significant...

Table 5

Mean Scores and Significant differences for Survey Variables for Groups that Did and Did Not Feel a Sense of Community (SOC) in the Online Course

	Did Feel SOC (n = 37)	Did Not Feel SOC (n = 33)	p
Scale Variables
Grade	3.27	3.27	ns
Comm. w/class	3.16	2.21	.001**
Comm. w/prof	4.49	3.97	.035*
Post #	3.08	2.58	.022*
Post quality	3.68	3.24	.008**
Discuss/debate	4.16	3.36	.002**
True/False Variables
Board/social	1.92	1.28	< .00025**
Retention in online courses	2.00	1.90	ns

	Did Feel SOC (n = 37)	Did Not Feel SOC (n = 33)	p
Scale Variables
Grade	3.27	3.27	ns
Comm. w/class	3.16	2.21	.001**
Comm. w/prof	4.49	3.97	.035*
Post #	3.08	2.58	.022*
Post quality	3.68	3.24	.008**
Discuss/debate	4.16	3.36	.002**
True/False Variables
Board/social	1.92	1.28	< .00025**
Retention in online courses	2.00	1.90	ns

Notes: SOC = Sense of community. For scale variables, 1 = poor, 5 = excellent. For true/false variables, 1 = false, 2 = true. For Grade: 0 = F, 1 = D, 2 = C, 3 = B, 4 = A.

p < .05.

p < .01.

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