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Article: TEACHING STATISTICS: A COMPARISON OF TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM AND PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION/DISTANCE LEARNING APPROACHES.
- Article from:
- Journal of Social Work Education
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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This article compares grades earned by incoming MSW students in traditional classroom-based statistics courses and those taught using software-based content and no regular classes. Traditional-learning students earned high grades overall, regardless of prior undergraduate grade point average (GPA). Students in the electronic-learning course with high GPAs performed as well as students in the regular course. However, electronic-learning students with low GPAs earned lower course grades than students with high GPAs who took the same course and students in the traditional course, regardless of their GPA. Findings suggest students can learn statistics successfully in a ...