A comparison of student achievement and satisfaction in an online versus a traditional face-to-face statistics class

Innovative Higher Education

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 233-250

  Summers, Jessica J ^a,b   Waigandt, Alexander ^a,c   Whittaker, Tiffany A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance learning; Internet; Online course development; Statistics instruction; Student satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 15444379809     PISSN: 07425627     EISSN: 15731758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10755-005-1938-x     Document Type: Article

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