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Direct linkChristina Shane-Simpson; Emma Desens; Allisyn Kleutsch; Rita Obeid – Teaching of Psychology, 2025
Background: Limited research has compared relationships among student characteristics, study guide format, and academic performance. Objective: This study investigated relations among student characteristics (motivation, self-efficacy) and academic performance, examined the efficacy of study guide format on performance, and aggregated student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Child Psychology, Study Guides, Intermode Differences
Dendir, Seife – Journal of Education for Business, 2016
The author uses data from two Principles of Microeconomics courses to examine differences in characteristics and performance of online versus face-to-face students. The analysis indicates that even in a traditional institution, the two delivery modes may be serving students with distinctly different backgrounds and characteristics. In terms of…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, Student Characteristics, Online Courses, Intermode Differences
Fernandez, Heidi; Ferdig, Richard E.; Thompson, Lindsay A.; Schottke, Katherine; Black, Erik W. – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
This study sought to establish a baseline for understanding the epidemiology of online K-12 students with special health care needs, determine the prevalence in K-12 online schooling of students from certain racial/ethnic backgrounds, those with socioeconomic disadvantages, and determine how these students perform in online classes compared to…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Health Services, Virtual Classrooms, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textAtchley, Wayne; Wingenbach, Gary; Akers, Cindy – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
Enrollment in online courses has outpaced overall university enrollment for the past several years. The growth of online courses does not appear to be slowing. The purpose of this study was to compare course completion and student academic performance between online and traditional courses. Archival data from the host university student records…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Conventional Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Crook, Simon J.; Sharma, Manjula D.; Wilson, Rachel – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Our study capitalized on a unique natural experiment rather than a researcher-designed, randomized experiment whereby, thanks to the Australian Government's Digital Education Revolution, half of grade 9 students in 2008 received laptops and half did not. Consequently in late 2011, when these students sat for their grade 12 external examinations…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Secondary School Science, Laptop Computers, Access to Computers
Byun, Soo-yong; Park, Hyunjoon – Sociology of Education, 2012
Using data from the Education Longitudinal Study, this study assessed the relevance of shadow education to the high academic performance of East Asian American students by examining how East Asian American students differed from other racial/ethnic students in the prevalence, purpose, and effects of using the two forms--commercial test preparation…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Academic Achievement, Youth, Asian American Students
Lam, Monica – Journal of Education for Business, 2009
The author investigated the effectiveness of Web-based courses on technical learning. The regression results show that the delivery format (Web-based or traditional classroom courses) has no significant effect on student performance. However, although gender is a significant predictor in traditional classroom courses, its effect disappears in…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Web Based Instruction, Delivery Systems
Peer reviewedGagne, Margaret; Shepherd, Morgan – T.H.E. Journal, 2001
Compares a graduate accounting course offered via distance learning with a Web-based interface, with a traditional, campus-based class. Highlights include class demographics; results of an analysis of variance; student performance comparison; student perceptions; and future research suggestions. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accounting, Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis
Ross, Steven M.; And Others – 1990
Designed to develop a more practical model for adapting context to learner interests, this study used computer-based instruction to make alternative contexts for statistics problems--sports, business, education, or no-context--available for selection by individual learners. The subjects were 227 undergraduate students enrolled in required…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing
