The Community of Inquiry Survey: An Assessment Instrument for Online Writing Courses

The Community of Inquiry (CoI) Survey (Arbaugh et al., 2008) has been thoroughly validated as a measurement of the extent to which students engage in collaborative learning online. However, despite a strong alignment between composition pedagogy and the theory that grounds the survey, we have not yet employed the survey as an assessment instrument for online writing courses. This article shares the results of a study that delivered a modified...