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A Comparison Of The Academic Performance Of Third-Fifth Grade Students In A Title I School Using Virtual Versus Face-To-Face Instruction, Shalyn Valencia Clay

Dissertations (2016-Present)

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) did not allow elementary aged students to receive the vaccination for COVID-19 (which will be referred to as the pandemic) until the Spring of 2021. This created two environments: the face-to-face learning environment and the virtual learning environment. Teachers were thrown into a situation in which they had to consider the risks to their own health before deciding on the best way to teach a particular lesson. Virtual learning was not considered by some to be as effective as face-to-face learning. The purpose of this quantitative comparative study was to analyze the mean scores …