No Significant Difference - Unless you are a Jumper

The finding, in one line

“Much of the e-education literature suggests that there is no significant difference in aggregate student learning outcomes between online and face-to-face instruction.”

Abstract

Much of the e-education literature suggests that there is no significant difference in aggregate student learning outcomes between online and face-to-face instruction. In this study, we develop a model that forecasts the grade that individual students would have most likely earned in the alternate class setting. Students for whom the difference between the actual grade received in one class format (for example, online) and the forecasted grade in the other class setting (for example, face-to-face) is one full letter grade or higher are called “jumpers.” Our findings indicate that jumpers are n

Abstract by Richard Fendler; Craig Ruff; Milind Shrikhande, Online Learning (2018) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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