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Online High School Achievement versus Traditional High School Achievement
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Blohm, Katherine E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The following study examined the question of student achievement in online charter schools and how the achievement scores of students at online charter schools compare to achievement scores of students at traditional schools. Arizona has seen explosive growth in charter schools and online charter schools. A study comparing how these two types of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academic Achievement, Online Courses, Conventional Instruction
Scaffolding Multimodality: Writing Process, Collaboration and Digital Tools
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Emily Howell – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2018
Purpose: This study was conducted in ninth- and tenth-grade classrooms with the goal of studying effective scaffolding for improving argumentative writing, both conventional and digital/multimodal. Design/methodology/approach: The author conducted a formative experiment in two high-school classrooms to study ways teachers integrated forms of…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Multimedia Instruction, Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities
Analysis of Student Perceptions of the Psychosocial Learning Environment in Online and Face-to-Face Career and Technical Education Courses
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Carver, Diane L.; Kosloski, Michael F., Jr. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2015
This study analyzed student perceptions of the psychosocial learning environment in online and face-to-face career and technical education courses, and used survey data from a school district in Washington state. A Mann-Whitney "U" test was used to measure variability and compare the mean scores for a series of psychosocial learning…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Attitudes, Online Courses, Vocational Education
Effectiveness of "Tutorials for Introductory Physics" in Argentinean High Schools
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Benegas J.; Flores, J. Sirur – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
This longitudinal study reports the results of a replication of "Tutorials in Introductory Physics" in high schools of a Latin-American country. The main objective of this study was to examine the suitability of "Tutorials" for local science education reform. Conceptual learning of simple resistive electric circuits was…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Introductory Courses, Physics, High School Students
The Effectiveness of Videotape Recordings in Teaching on the Achievement of Ninth Grade Students in Citizenship Classes.
Tworek, Raphael J. – 1992
This study was intended to ascertain the effectiveness of videotape recordings on the achievement of ninth grade students in citizenship classes versus achievement of students where that medium was not used. Subjects for the quasi-experimental study were 183 ninth grade students in selected high school citizenship classes in a large suburban…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Citizenship Education, Conventional Instruction, Educational Television
Integration of Live Video and WWW Delivery Systems To Teach University Level Science, Technology, and Society in High Schools.
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Urven, Lance E.; Yin, L. Roger; Bak, John D. – 1998
In fall 1997, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (UWW) provided Science and Technology in Society, a university general studies science literacy course, to advanced placement high school students at three local high schools, using a combination of live video presentations and World Wide Web (WWW) courseware. A total of 26 high school students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, Audiovisual Communications, College Students