How Are They Doing?: Examining Student Achievement in Virtual Schooling

Six years ago the Centre for Distance Learning and Innovation began a virtual high school within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Designed primarily to provide courses in specialized areas to students in rural areas, where schools have difficulty in attracting second language, mat...

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Main Authors: Barbour, Michael K., Mulcahy, Dennis
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: DigitalCommons@SHU 2008
Subjects:
virtual schools
online learning
evaluation
rural schools
Educational Assessment
and Research
Educational Methods
Newfoundland
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/ced_fac/161
https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1155&context=ced_fac
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Summary:Six years ago the Centre for Distance Learning and Innovation began a virtual high school within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Designed primarily to provide courses in specialized areas to students in rural areas, where schools have difficulty in attracting second language, mathematics and science teachers. However, there has been some concern that the opportunities provided by this virtual high school are "second rate" or only able to cater to independent, self-motivated students. The purpose of the study is to examine the student achievement in standardized public exams and final course scores in the province between different delivery models to determine whether or not students are succeeding in the virtual high school environment at the same rate as their classroom counterparts.

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