The provision, use, study time and effectiveness of media: a mathematical model

Autor: Gordon Burt, D. M. Lloyd
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning. 20:161-174
ISSN: 1469-9958
0268-0513
DOI: 10.1080/02680510500094181
Popis: Many institutions regularly conduct surveys of students. In some cases these provide descriptive statistics about students’ actual use of course components and the descriptive statistics are discussed using ordinary language. A number of refinements to these surveys are proposed. It is argued that mathematical modeling as used in the discipline of economics can usefully complement existing approaches. A mathematical model of student use of media is developed. The parameters are empirically estimated for an equation expressing the amount of study of a particular component in terms of its ‘essentiality’ and its effectiveness. Thus an ordinary language account can be given greater precision thanks to the mathematical modeling.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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