GRADUATE BUSINESS STATISTICS: COMPARISION OF STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS FROM ONLINE AND ON-GROUND COURSES

Jong-Sung Lee, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, U.S.A.
Rejesh Aggarwal, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, U.S.A.
Rahul Paul, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
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 JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Volume 17, Issue 1, p19-28, March 2017

ABSTRACT

Online learning has been continuously increasing and seemingly it will. Yet there is a considerable discrepancy between chief education officers’ perceptions on the effectiveness of online courses and their perceptions on the faculty’s acceptance of online courses. We believe that proving effectiveness of online courses would help narrow this discrepancy. We proved that the graduate business statistics course was as effective in online classes as in on-ground classes based on course grades in a previous study. This continued study compared the two types of classes based on students’ perception shown in their responses to 35 questions in the teaching evaluation questionnaire. We tested the responses from the two types of classes for each of the 35 questions. The results showed that students’ perceptions from online classes were not different from those from on-ground classes on the whole, though there were differences in 8 of the 35 questions. We explained reasons for the differences and suggested how to reduce or remove those differences. We recommended a further study to assess those suggestions of improvement.

Keywords

Online Course, Graduate Business Statistics, Student Evaluation


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