Comparisons of the Educational Value of Distance Delivered versus Traditional Classroom Instruction in Introductory Agricultural Economics |
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| Authors: | Kurt Stephenson Anya McGuirk Tricia Zeh Dixie Watts Reaves |
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| Affiliation: | Kurt Stephenson is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech University.;Anya McGuirk is a research statistician at SAS.;Tricia Zeh (formerly Tricia Crouse) is a former graduate student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech University.;Dixie Watts Reaves is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech University. |
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| Abstract: | As many universities are promoting distance courses, the comparative advantages and disadvantages over conventional classroom delivery are being debated. Student attitudes and test performance in an introductory microeconomics course are compared across the two different course delivery formats. Results show that students with average or below-average college aptitude test scores perform more poorly in the distance class. |
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