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Experimental Effects of Online Instruction on Locus of Control
Yuliang Liu

Abstract
Although research regarding online instruction has grown in recent years, the effects of online instruction on learner’s psychological factors have not received enough attention. Thus, this experimental study was designed to investigate how online instruction affects one of the online learner’s important psychological factors--locus of control (LOC). Two LOC instruments were administered three times: one at the beginning, one in the middle, and one at the end of the spring semester in a graduate instructional technology course in 2001. Results indicate that (1) learners tend to be external at the beginning of the online course and (2) online instruction affects learner’s LOC significantly from the beginning of the semester to the middle and the end of the semester. Significant implications result from this study....



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