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Evaluating the Impact of Internet Teaching: Preliminary Evidence from American National Government Classes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2002

Philip H. Pollock
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida
Bruce M. Wilson
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida

Abstract

The analysis and discussion in this article are based on the preliminary results from a study of a redesigned American National Government course funded by a $200,000 grant from the Pew Program in Course Redesign. One of the central goals of this grant is to evaluate the effectiveness of the partial replacement of face-to-face classroom time with web-based interactive assignments. (We refer to the redesigned courses as “reduced seat-time” or RST.) The grant supported the development of pedagogically appropriate uses of the Internet for an introductory general education program (GEP) course, and it funded the evaluation of the impact of the redesigned course on student attitudes and learning outcomes.

Type
THE TEACHER
Copyright
© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

Authors appear in alphabetical order. The authors would like to thank the Pew Foundation Program in Course Redesign for generous funding of this project and Kerstin Hamann for comments on earlier drafts of this article.