An exploratory investigation of levels of learning and learning efficiency between online and face-to-face instruction

Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 47-57

  Smith, Robert L ^a   Flamez, Brandé ^b   Vela, Javier Cavazos ^c   Schomaker, Stefani A ^a   Fernandez, Mary Alice ^a   Armstrong, Shanice N ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^b LAMAR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Counselor education; Learning efficiency; Online learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986593191     PISSN: 21501378     EISSN: 21501386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2150137815572148     Document Type: Article

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