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Do Online Students Perform as Well as Lecture Students?
Author(s) -
Dutton John,
Dutton Marilyn,
Perry Jo
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2001.tb00580.x
Subject(s) - online course , mathematics education , medical education , course (navigation) , psychology , online teaching , significant difference , engineering , medicine , aerospace engineering
This paper reports research on whether online delivery performs as well as traditional lecture delivery for a computer science course at North Carolina State University. The comparisons made are for two large sections of the course for which almost the only difference was that one section attended on‐campus lectures and the other did not. Where significant differences in outcomes appear for students who completed the course, they favor the online students. However, online students who started the course were less likely to complete it.