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LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS:
A COMPARITIVE STUDY TO MEASURE EFFECTIVENESS OF WEBCASTING
IN SUCCESS OF STUDENTS IN AN INTRODUCTORY
COMPUTER SCIENCE CLASS
by
Massoud Ghyam
________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
May 2007
Copyright 2007 Massoud Ghyam
Object Description
| Title | Learning effectiveness: a comparitive study to measure effectiveness of webcasting in success of students in an introductory computer science class |
| Author | Ghyam, Massoud |
| Author email | mghyam@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2006-11-20 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-03-27 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Hagedorn, Linda Serra |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Sundt, Melora A. Picus, Lawrence O. |
| Abstract | This study investigates if providing delayed webcast of college lectures would improve the retention of students enrolled in an introductory computer science class over a span of six semesters. The population for this study was undergraduate engineering students enrolled in the same course at a major research university in a western state in six different semesters. The same instructor taught all sections of the course, the same textbook and software were used, and the number of lab/teaching assistants were also exactly the same. Assignments and exams were changed but were kept at the same level of difficulty. Some students were enrolled in the courses where webcasting was not utilized as a tool, while others took the same course where delayed webcasting was used.; The research question that guided the study was: Will use of the delayed webcast and the availability of the course lectures on line improve students' grades and therefore the success ratio in the Introduction to Computer Science and Programming course? For the purposes of this study successful completion is defined as the number of students who did not drop the course, and who passed the course with a grade of C- or better. Grade improvement of students who completed the course was also examined.; Result of the study showed providing delayed webcast of the lectures did not improve retention, but neither did it harm the student's learning. Future study is recommended to include coding for gender and student's field of study. |
| Keyword | use of technology; retention |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m329 |
| Rights | Ghyam, Massoud |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Ghyam-20070327 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Ghyam-20070327.pdf |
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| Full text | LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS: A COMPARITIVE STUDY TO MEASURE EFFECTIVENESS OF WEBCASTING IN SUCCESS OF STUDENTS IN AN INTRODUCTORY COMPUTER SCIENCE CLASS by Massoud Ghyam ________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2007 Copyright 2007 Massoud Ghyam |
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