Comparison of course completion and student performance through online and traditional courses

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...

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Autores principales:	Thomas Wayne Atchley, Gary Wingenbach, Cynthia Akers
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2013
Materias:	distance education online education student performance student retention Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2f73a395978a4788a62008d20d0d8c782021-12-02T17:16:07ZComparison of course completion and student performance through online and traditional courses10.19173/irrodl.v14i4.14611492-3831https://doaj.org/article/2f73a395978a4788a62008d20d0d8c782013-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1461https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Enrollment 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 system was collected using the Structured Query Language. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze student characteristics. Chi-square analysis was used to determine if statistically significant differences existed between students enrolled in online and traditional courses when comparing course completion and academic performance. Analysis found statistically significant differences existed in both course completion and academic performance for students enrolled in online versus traditional courses. Additional analysis indicated statistically significant differences existed in course completion by course discipline. Thomas Wayne AtchleyGary WingenbachCynthia AkersAthabasca University Pressarticledistance educationonline educationstudent performancestudent retentionSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 14, Iss 4 (2013)
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description	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 system was collected using the Structured Query Language. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze student characteristics. Chi-square analysis was used to determine if statistically significant differences existed between students enrolled in online and traditional courses when comparing course completion and academic performance. Analysis found statistically significant differences existed in both course completion and academic performance for students enrolled in online versus traditional courses. Additional analysis indicated statistically significant differences existed in course completion by course discipline.
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Comparison of course completion and student performance through online and traditional courses

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