Theses and Dissertations
Issuing Body
Mississippi State University
Advisor
Newman, Michael
Committee Member
Hunt, Barry
Committee Member
Grace, Cathy
Committee Member
Deeds, Jacquelyn
Committee Member
Taylor, N. Walter
Date of Degree
8-9-2008
Document Type
Dissertation - Open Access
Major
Agricultural Information Science and Education
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
College
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Department
School of Human Sciences
Abstract
The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to compare three types of instruction: online synchronous, online asynchronous, and traditional, and assess which would yield more learner achievement. Participants for the online groups volunteered then were randomly assigned to either the online synchronous or the online asynchronous. Participants for the traditional group were also voluntary but were not randomly assigned; all that volunteered for the traditional group were accepted. In the final sample, a total of 96 Mississippi child care professionals completed the course Early Learning Guidelines: Lesson Plans and Thematic Units for Three Year Old Children: 31 in the online synchronous group, 32 in the online asynchronous group, and 33 in the traditional group. The dependent variable was learner achievement and the independent variable was type of instruction. The design of the study was pretest-posttest control group. Two hypotheses guided the study: (1) Participants in the synchronous online class will exhibit higher achievement than participants in the asynchronous class and (2) Participants in the asynchronous or the synchronous online class would exhibit achievement equal to or higher than the traditional group. Synchronous participants provided with instruction did perform higher than did the traditional participants. The synchronous and asynchronous groups were not statistically different, nor were the asynchronous and the traditional group.
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11668/15395
Recommended Citation
Stanford, Carla Caldwell, "A comparison of the effects of online synchronous versus online asynchronous versus traditional approaches on learner achievement via education of Mississippi child care providers" (2008). Theses and Dissertations. 72.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/72