TEACHING STATISTICS: A COMPARISON OF TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM AND PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION/DISTANCE LEARNING APPROACHES.

From: Journal of Social Work Education | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: HARRINGTON, DONNA | Copyright information

This article compares grades earned by incoming MSW students in traditional classroom-based statistics courses and those taught using software-based content and no regular classes. Traditional-learning students earned high grades overall, regardless of prior undergraduate grade point average (GPA). Students in the electronic-learning course with high GPAs performed as well as students in the regular course. However, electronic-learning students with low GPAs earned lower course gra...

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