The New York Times released a study conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education that says, “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”
“Over the 12-year span, the report found 99 studies in which there were quantitative comparisons of online and classroom performance for the same courses. The analysis for the Department of Education found that,on average, students doing some or all of the course online would rank in the 59th percentile in tested performance, compared with the average classroom student scoring in the 50th percentile. That is a modest but statistically meaningful difference.”
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