Evaluating the Effectiveness of Distance Learning: A Comparison Using Meta-Analysis

By Mike Allen, E. Mabry, Michelle Mattrey, J. Bourhis, Scott Titsworth, Nancy A. Burrell. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Simulating the Potential Impacts of COVID-19 School Closures on Schooling and Learning Outcomes: A Set of Global Estimates (2020, unknown): “In the United States, studies find everything from unambiguously positive (US DoE 2010 and Allen et al. 2004) to negative and null effects (Bernard et al. 2004).”
• E-Learning in Organizations (2005, background): “The second meta-analysis, by Allen et al. (2004), found that students in distance learning courses had higher exam scores than students taught in traditional, lecture-based settings.”
• Student satisfaction with an online and a face-to-face Business English course in a higher education context (2019, background): “…instruction have yielded inconsistent results, some indicating that student satisfaction is significantly higher for traditional students (Allen et al., 2004; Roach & Lemasters, 2006; Tallent-Runnels et al., 2006), others online students (Hui, Hu, Clark, Tam, & Milton, 2008), while some…”