July 19, 2002
Stronger Students Benefit More From Online Course, Texas Study Finds
A study by two psychologists comparing how much students learned in classroom and online sections of the same course has found that students with good general comprehension skills benefited from taking the course online, while students with lesser such skills learned about the same amount in either format.
"The rich get richer," one of the professors said.
In the study, two professors of psychology at Texas Tech University had students take a comprehension-assessment exam before
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