The effectiveness of distance education using synchronous two-way audio and one way computer-aided instruction in real estate education /

The purpose of this study was determine if real estate

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peeples, Donna Kasboum
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1996.
Subjects:
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Summary:The purpose of this study was determine if real estate
education could be delivered using two-way audio and one-way
video to communicate v,/with students at a distant location
in a manner that would produce levels of achievement at least
equal to traditional classroom teaching methods. Achievement
was determined by using statistical measures to evaluate the
change in scores between a 40-item pretest and an identical
posttest The sample of 53 students in the study came from
persons enrolling in an examination preparation course at the
Real Estate Institute of Corpus Christi. All participants
had completed required real estate courses and were preparing
to take the state licensing examination. Participants were
stratified according to gender and assigned, in an unbiased
manner, to a control or an experimental group. Two
hypotheses were tested: that there was no difference in
achievement between the control and experimental groups as
measured by change from pretest to posttest, and that there
was no correlation among the variables of change in score,
treatment, and the number of real estate courses taken prior
to the study. The study was conducted using identical
classrooms for the control and the experimental groups; the
course was conducted simultaneously for the two groups. The
instructor conducted the class at the originating site
V,/with the control group present in the classroom. The
distant class was physically separated from the instructor,
and communicated with the instructor and the control group
via speaker-telephone. Groups received the video portion of
the instruction simultaneously, using a computer-aided
presentation to display the instructional materials. The
conclusions drawn/n from statistical testing clearly
supported a failure to reject the null hypotheses-that there
was no difference in change scores between the two groups,
and that there was no correlation among the variables of
change in score, treatment, and the number of real estate
courses previously taken.
Item Description:Vita.
"Major Subject: Educational Human Resource Development".
Physical Description:xi, 114 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.