Research Update #12: High Impact Research Study Conclusions Negated
LDA friend and Executive Advisory Board Member, Ruth Colvin Clark provides a twice-monthly research update. These updates are single-page infographic/ summaries you can open, read, download, and file for later review and reference.
In this twelfth review from Ruth she explores how a research report published in 2013 claimed that a synchronous online course with daily testing compared with a classroom version not only improved learning in the online course but also in other concurrent courses students were taking. In this article, a reevaluation of the original data debunked these claims. The 2013 flawed research was widely cited and was the basis for a wasted multimillion-dollar university project.
By Ruth Colvin Clark
