Online system adoption and K-12 academic outcomes.

This study seeks to understand the relationship between K-12 online system adoption (e.g., Blackboard, Edmodo, Word Press) and school-level academic achievement ratings. Utilizing a novel approach to data collection via website data extraction and indexing of all school websites in a target state in...

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Publicado en:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 378 - 392
Autor principal: Kimmons, R.
Formato: questions and answers research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Aug2015
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          Academic Achievement
          World Wide Web Utilization
          Diffusion of Innovation
          Education, Non-Traditional
          Schools United States
          United States
          Data Collection Methods
          Data Analysis Methods
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      ab: This study seeks to understand the relationship between K-12 online system adoption (e.g., Blackboard, Edmodo, Word Press) and school-level academic achievement ratings. Utilizing a novel approach to data collection via website data extraction and indexing of all school websites in a target state in the United States ( n = 732) and merging these data with publicly available data on school academic achievement ratings, this study provides generalizable results of online system adoption on academic achievement ratings for the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years. Univariate general linear modelling is used to determine significant relationships between categories of systems (e.g., any, education-specific, generic, cost, no-cost, proprietary, open-source) or specific systems and school academic ratings for each year. The results indicate some general positive effects, but effect sizes remain small and account for 2% or less of variance in ratings. Implications of this study suggest that online system adoption does not impact student academic achievement at a sufficient level to justify adoption that is not meaningfully coupled with other essential factors of school development (e.g., professional development, curricular development), and we propose that decision-makers should be wary of large-scale, technocentric attempts to improve schools that are not grounded in generalizable research findings.
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