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Persistence And Academic Performance Of Medical Students In Online Learning Environment During The Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown, Mohsin M. Syed, Noor Akhter, Mohamed Ibrahim, Laura C. Stanley
Persistence And Academic Performance Of Medical Students In Online Learning Environment During The Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown, Mohsin M. Syed, Noor Akhter, Mohamed Ibrahim, Laura C. Stanley
Faculty Publications - Curriculum & Instruction
Government response to the COVID 19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 came as a wave of physical closures requiring sudden change in the method of instruction from face-to-face to a completely online. Assessment of students adaptation to this change during emergency lockdown is the focus of this study. We used a One-way ANOVA to compare pandemic and pre-pandemic Performance of First Year medical students at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in the brain and behavior module. Students’ test scores related to perception of persistence levels was studied using correlation analysis. In addition, a regression analysis was performed …
Do Virtual Schools Meet Students' And Families' Expectations? An Investigation Of A Fully-Online High School In Arkansas, Christopher L. Davis
Do Virtual Schools Meet Students' And Families' Expectations? An Investigation Of A Fully-Online High School In Arkansas, Christopher L. Davis
Theses and Dissertations from 2019
High school has evolved significantly over the last several decades. What was once a choice between public school and private school is now a decision that includes homeschools, magnet schools, charter schools, and virtual schools, to name a few. This was a mixed-methods case study that investigated students’ and families’ satisfaction with their decision to attend high school virtually. The study examined a fully online virtual high school in the state of Arkansas to answer the following research questions: 1. What factors best predict students’ interest in enrolling in a fully online virtual school in Arkansas? 2. Is there a …