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Article: Assessing Distance Education Courses and Discipline Differences in their Effectiveness(1).(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Journal of Instructional Psychology
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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This research illustrated a new, parsimonious model that investigators interested in distance education can use to ask meaningful questions about the relative quality of distance education courses (Dominguez & Ridley, 1999). The approach removed the emphasis from student-level data and placed it upon course-based data. Sample data comparing online and traditional higher education courses covering nine disciplines were reported. These data revealed that preparation for advanced courses was statististically equivalent whether the course prerequisites were online courses or their traditional classroom counterparts. The article further explored the usefulness of this ...
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