The Effect of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) Learning Model and Learning Style towards Social Skills

Dewi Sartika,Syarifuddin*, Punaji,Punaji Setyosari,Sulton Sulton,Dedi Kuswandi

doi:10.12973/eu-jer.9.2.569

Abstract

<p style="text-align:justify">This study aims to examine and describe the effect of the community of inquiry (CoI) learning model and learning styles on students' social skills. The sample used was a student of the faculty of education IAIM Bima Indonesian totaling 114 people, consisting of two experimental groups with 56 students and two control groups were 58 students. The community of inquiry (CoI) learning model was applied in the experimental group whereas the control group applied a cooperative learning model (comparison). This research is a quasi-experiment in which the analysis of prerequisites is applied; normality used the normality QQ plot and homogeneity of variance test used Levene’s test. Research data were analyzed by applying the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The results of show that there are significant differences in the social skills of students who use the community of inquiry (CoI) learning model with cooperative learning model, there are differences in social skills of students in terms of the dimensions of learning styles of visual, auditory and kinesthetic, there is also an interaction between community of inquiry (CoI) learning model and learning styles on students' social skills.</p>

Highlights

Learning in higher education puts students as adult learners who are able to organize themselves (Eggen, 2012)
The learning model of community of inquiry by considering and paying attention to student learning styles, it is to be collaborated, cooperated and helped each other in conducting various investigations in solving various problems they face, so that it is effective in improving social skills, motivation and mastery of students' concepts towards material learned
This Community of Inquiry learning model provides many opportunities for students to explore with their communities by utilizing various facilities and technologies that are around it, in contrast to the cooperative and conventional learning models which are more focused on instruction from teachers in the classroom

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Introduction

Learning in higher education puts students as adult learners who are able to organize themselves (Eggen, 2012). / Community of Inquiry (CoI) Learning Model and Learning Style with students (Arbaugh et al, 2008; Asalla et al, 2014; Feng et al, 2017) learners should be given a lot of space to use their environment as a learning resource, such as providing internet services, adequate library, facilities for discussion with peers, teachers and other learning resources, because the learners should play an active role in learning (Branch & Kopcha, 2014; Felder & Brent, 2017; Reigeluth, 2016). Social presence indicator is the presence of social relationships between learners, encourage learners to be actively involved in cooperation, mutual trust collaborate in the investigation to achieve the learning objectives (Arbaugh et al, 2008; Garrison, 2019; Hilliard & Stewart, 2019; Shea et al, 2011; Saadatmand et al, 2017). Based on several studies and expert opinion on the above researchers tried to conduct research related to the influence of the learning model community of inquiry and learning styles of the students' social skills, because the knowledge of researchers has not much to research in this regard in higher

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