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Comparison Of Learning Outcomes From Online And Face-To-Face Accounting Courses, Joel Faidley
Comparison Of Learning Outcomes From Online And Face-To-Face Accounting Courses, Joel Faidley
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Online education continues to evolve and grow dramatically at colleges and universities across the globe. Today’s society is comprised of people who are increasingly busy with work and family obligations and who are looking for more flexible and expedited avenues for higher education. Institutions seek to meet these new demands by offering online distance educational opportunities while increasing cash flow for their college. Unfortunately the pitfalls to this rush to meet online demand results in what some researchers assert are inadequate quality content and curriculum. Others indicate there are not significant differences in the outcomes from online learning compared with …
Factor Invariance Of The Standard Achievement Admission Test By Gender And School Types, Mohammed Alqabbaa
Factor Invariance Of The Standard Achievement Admission Test By Gender And School Types, Mohammed Alqabbaa
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This study examined the factorial structure of the SAAT with exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Specifically, a CFA of a four-factor model (the hypothesized model) was tested to see if the model had good fit as well as a model generated from an EFA. The EFA showed that the SAAT test only measured two factors (biology and chemistry), not the four posited by the test developers. The CFA provided good fit to a two-factor model; however, a CFA showed that the hypothesized four-factor model also fit the data well and so the hypothesized model was selected …