What's the Difference, Still? A Follow up Methodological Review of the Distance Education Research
| Autor: | Justus J. RANDOLPH |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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| Zdroj: | Informatics in Education, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 179-188 (2007) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1648-5831 2335-8971 |
| DOI: | 10.15388/infedu.2007.12 |
| Popis: | A high quality review of the distance learning literature from 1992-1999 concluded that most of the research on distance learning had serious methodological flaws. This paper presents the results of a small-scale replication of that review. A sample of 66 articles was drawn from three leading distance education journals. Those articles were categorized by study type, and the experimental or quasi-experimental articles were analyzed in terms of their research methodologies. The results indicated that the sample of post-1999 articles had the same methodological flaws as the sample of pre-1999 articles: most participants were not randomly selected, extraneous variables and reactive effects were not controlled for, and the validity and reliability of measures were not reported. |
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