TITLE:
The Relative Effectiveness of Online Lecture Methods on Student Test Scores in a Business Course
AUTHORS:
Prashanth Nyer
KEYWORDS:
Online Education, Effectiveness, Learning Outcomes, Teaching, Test Scores, Lectures, Video, Notes
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.7 No.4,
September
11,
2019
ABSTRACT: We compared student learning outcomes (using test scores) across three
modes of delivering lectures: 1) using a traditional face-to-face lecture, 2) using
online instruction where the lecture was delivered using a video recording of
the classroom lecture, and 3) using online instruction where the lecture was
delivered using a static document created from an edited transcript of the
classroom lecture embedded with charts, graphs etc.
The results showed that as hypothesized, students reading the online static
document performed as well as the students attending the traditional lecture
and that both groups outperformed the students watching the video of the
recorded lecture. The data also showed that, as hypothesized, both quickly
created online instruction methods scored lower on engagement compared to the
traditional face-to-face lecture. Students who were exposed to the online
lecture delivered using a static document and the students attending the
face-to-face lecture both reported having higher quality of notes compared to students exposed to the video recording. Finally,
as hypothesized, the effect of the different instructional material on student
test scores was found to be completely mediated by student engagement and
perceived note quality.