Wednesday, April 15, 2009
AERA 2009 - Virtual School Student Performance in a Rural and Remote Jurisdiction
Crossposted from http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/aera-2009-virtual-school-student-performance-in-a-rural-and-remote-jurisdiction/.
Still with the oddness of the day, I missed most of Kevin’s roundtable session, Rurality and Virtual School Environments: An Analysis of Student and Teacher Expectations (although I did get some notes from him), as again I had a roundtable of my own.
Virtual School Student Performance in a Rural and Remote Jurisdiction
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Wed, Apr 15 - 12:25pm - 1:05pm Building/Room: San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina / Marriott Hall Salon 4
In Session: Rurality, Community, and EducationAuthors:
Dennis M. Mulcahy (Memorial University - Newfoundland)
Michael Kristopher Barbour (Wayne State University)Abstract: As out-migration continues to ravage rural regions in Newfoundland and Labrador, more rural schools are relying upon the province’s virtual high school to offer courses students require simply in order to graduate. The concern is that virtual school, and K-12 distance education in general, has been shown to be an effect alternative for a select group of students. With a wider range of students forced into this largely independent learning environment, research must be undertaken to ensure that all students are being accommodating. This study proposes to address this gap by examining student enrollment patterns and performance levels in virtual schooling in the province’s most remote school district.
As I was the one delivering this, I don’t have notes to share. But you can access the PowerPoint slides of my presentation at:
http://www.michaelbarbour.com/research/pubs/aera_2009-lsd.pdf
More from the 2009 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association regarding the K-12 online learning presentations (see here and here) in a moment.
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