Tech Note: Resource from Boston College

A resource at Boston College serves several readerships:

inTASC (Technology and Assessment Study Collaborative) presents research and readings on the topics embedded in the research center's title. One arm of the organization is the JTLA, or Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment. That's an online journal that is peer-reviewed. The partner for the journal is CSTEEP (Center for Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy), housed in the College's Lynch School of Education.

© 2009 Mary Bold, PhD, CFLE. Email contact: bold[AT]marybold.com. The content of this blog or related web sites created by Mary Bold (www.marybold.com, www.boldproductions.com, College Intern Blog) is not under any circumstances to be regarded as legal or professional advice. Bold is the co-author of Reflections: Preparing for your Practicum or Internship, geared to college interns in the child, education, and family fields. She is a consultant and speaker on assessment, distance learning, and technology.

Meta-Analysis of Online Learning Studies from Dept of Ed

Conclusions of the well-established archive of research into online education residing at the No Significant Difference Phenomenon web site are confirmed in 2009 by a meta-analysis published by the U.S. Department of Education. This most recent report is the Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies [PDF] . The investigation was conducted by SRI International.

Drawing from more than 1,000 empirical studies, the researchers identified 51 effects for meta-analysis. The broad conclusion is that students in "online learning conditions" performed better than students in F2F settings. The investigation focused on web-based online learning and those studies with direct measures of student learning (not indirect measures such as surveys or studies of perception of learning).

© 2009 Mary Bold, PhD, CFLE. Email contact: bold[AT]marybold.com. The content of this blog or related web sites created by Mary Bold (www.marybold.com, www.boldproductions.com, College Intern Blog) is not under any circumstances to be regarded as legal or professional advice. Bold is the co-author of Reflections: Preparing for your Practicum or Internship, geared to college interns in the child, education, and family fields. She is a consultant and speaker on assessment, distance learning, and technology.

HERI's web site and blog: Always worth checking

Checking HERI's web site (Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA) is always a good idea but at present has two compelling reasons to take the time:

1 - Link to the HERI blog (or go straight there with this link) for presentation slides from the June 2009 AIR conference. Topics from HERI were outcomes for intro science and math courses, underrepresented students, first-year experience, and Habirs of Mind study (more first-year experience).

2 - Look at the HERI web site's list of Upcoming Conferences (bottom-left of the web page). You'll still have to make your own visit to the sponsor's web site for more information about each conference, but the HERI list is handy for scanning more than half-dozen events scheduled for Fall 2009.

© 2009 Mary Bold, PhD, CFLE. Email contact: bold[AT]marybold.com. The content of this blog or related web sites created by Mary Bold (www.marybold.com, www.boldproductions.com, College Intern Blog) is not under any circumstances to be regarded as legal or professional advice. Bold is the co-author of Reflections: Preparing for your Practicum or Internship, geared to college interns in the child, education, and family fields. She is a consultant and speaker on assessment, distance learning, and technology.