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Direct linkCourtney M. Leidner; Christine H. Roch – Educational Policy, 2025
Enrollment in online schools (OS) has increased significantly in recent years. Due to advancements in technology, OS are able to provide education entirely online to K-12 students. Despite their growth, there has been little research on the working environments of OS. This paper explores teacher perceptions about working conditions in OS. We use…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Online Courses, Virtual Schools, Teacher Attitudes
The Potential, Reality, and Contextual Pressures Shaping Instructional Practices in a Virtual School
Jennifer Darling-Aduana; Laura K. Rogers; David S. Woo – American Journal of Education, 2025
Purpose: Despite the expansion of virtual learning during COVID-19, many questions remain unexplored on how to provide quality online instruction outside of a crisis-schooling model. Research Methods: The study takes place within a virtual school affiliated with the largest online curriculum provider in the United States. Using observations of…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Educational Practices, Electronic Learning, COVID-19
Kingsbury, Ian; Maranto, Robert; Beck, Dennis – Journal of School Choice, 2021
Cyber charter schools may increase access to a range of educational offerings, but they substantially underperform traditional public schools on measured academic performance, as demonstrated in a range of studies with distinct samples and methods. Artificial testing conditions offer a possible explanation. In contrast to face-to-face students,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Virtual Schools, Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests
Willermark, Sara; Islind, Anna Sigridur – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore virtual leadership work within educational settings in the light of social disruption. In 2020, a global pandemic changed the way we work. For school leaders, that involved running a virtual school overnight. Although there is a stream of research that explores leadership in solely virtual communities, there is…
Descriptors: Leadership, Affordances, Virtual Schools, COVID-19
Winton, Sara – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The phenomenon of high school dropouts is a silent epidemic that has been plaguing the United States. This study examined the effects of online education on mental health and student retention of online students within the scope of secondary education. The data for this mixed methods study was collected through anonymous online questionnaires sent…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Mental Health, Dropout Prevention, High School Students
Paulina Aravena-Bravo; Alejandrina Cristia; Rowena Garcia; Hiromasa Kotera; Ramona Kunene Nicolas; Ronel Laranjo; Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan; Margaret Cychosz; Rodrigo Dal Ben; Yatma Diop; Catalina Durán-Urzúa; Naomi Havron; Marie Manalili; Bhuvana Narasimhan; Paul Okyere Omane; Caroline Rowland; Leticia Schiavon Kolberg; Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata; Suzy J. Styles; Belén Troncoso-Acosta; Fei Ting Woon – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition, a free 5-day virtual school for early career researchers. In this paper, we describe the school, our experience organizing it, and lessons…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Acquisition, Virtual Schools, Educational Researchers
Sherry Inez Bumpus-Barnett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative non-experimental correlational study is to test the relationship between children having special needs and the rate of homeschooling and to test the relationship between parental dissatisfaction with the learning environments in public or private schools and the choice to homeschool. The theoretical framework in…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Special Needs Students
Download full textColorado Department of Education, 2024
Senate Bill 19-129, concerning the regulation of online schools, calls for the Colorado Department of Education's Office of Online and Blended Learning to produce an annual report on the number of students who withdraw from Colorado K-12 online schools after the pupil enrollment count date (also known as October count). This report is required to…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Elementary Secondary Education, Virtual Schools, Electronic Learning
Esche, Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify decision-making factors from parents of Southeast Rural School District (SRSD) who chose to transfer their children to one of 14 cyber charter schools within Pennsylvania amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This research study utilized a phenomenological design, consisting of qualitative electronic…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Decision Making, School Choice, Transfer Students
Alexander Charles Rausch – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This non-experimental correlational quantitative research study was conducted to examine the relationship between the percentage of voluntary live synchronous virtual lesson attendance (LVLA) and the reading comprehension skill growth of sixth through eighth-grade English Language Arts (ELA) students enrolled in a Pennsylvania full-time online…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Electronic Learning, Reading Comprehension, Grade 6
Flavia Capodanno; Emanuela Zappalà; Paola Aiello – Athens Journal of Education, 2025
Inclusion is widely recognized as one of the founding principles for the quality of educational institutions and it is strictly related to the ICF perspective. Actually, the conceptualization of educational needs is associated to the enhancement of everyone's strengths and potential, and to the influence the (physical and social) environment may…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis, Inclusion, Virtual Schools
Julie A. Marsh; James C. Bridgeforth; Laura Steen Mulfinger; Desiree O'Neal; Tong Tong – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
Although the COVID pandemic dramatically expanded K-12 remote learning in its first years, little is known about the lasting effects on virtual schooling policies and practices. Drawing on evolutionary theories of change and qualitative data from 2019 to 2022, we explore this topic in Oregon, a state with a long history of virtual schools. We find…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Virtual Schools, Distance Education
Tennessee Department of Education, 2025
Annually, the Tennessee Department of Education (department) releases a report to highlight the current state of virtual education in Tennessee. This year's report provides information relative to the operation and viability of public virtual schools and virtual education programs for the 2023-24 school year. In compliance with state statute, the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Virtual Schools, Distance Education
Shirin Khosravian – ProQuest LLC, 2022
For-profit, online, higher education institutions have lower student retention rates than institutions in other categories. Higher education leaders are concerned with low retention as it adversely impacts financial and student outcomes. Grounded in Morgan and Hunt's relationship marketing theory, the purpose of this qualitative, exploratory,…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, For Profit Colleges, Virtual Schools, Higher Education
George Veletsianos; Valerie Irvine; Nicole Johnson – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2023
This project undertook an analysis of the evolving nature of online, hybrid, and multi-access learning within the British Columbia (BC) post-secondary education system. The project objectives included assessing potential changes in the scope and nature of online learning in BC, understanding stakeholder insights on learner preferences towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Blended Learning
