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Saturday, December 08, 2001
http://imej.wfu.edu/articles/2001/2/07/index.asp Development and Assessment of Students: Attitudes and Achievement in a Business Statistics Course Taught Online Candace L. Gunnarsson, Xavier University Abstract This paper is a report on the development and assessment of a graduate level statistics course taught in an online setting. Students taking the newly developed statistics course online were compared to students taking the course in a traditional classroom. Achievement along with three mediating variables was investigated. The three mediating variables included: prior computer experience, prior math knowledge and experience, and attitude toward the subject of statistics. The participants were forty-two graduate students in their first year of the MBA program. Students' attitudes toward learning in an online environment were favorable. Differences were found in their attitude toward the subject of statistics and prior computer experience; however, no causal relationship in achievement was detected. Students who learned in an online environment achieved comparably to students learning in a traditional classroom....
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