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Internet Learning
Course B
Students reported that the course met all of the essential standards except Standards
7.1, 7.2 and 8.1 as measured by the Online Course Evaluation Tool; however, the
review results conducted by the three certified peer reviewers (none of the peer reviewers
served as an SME on this review) indicated that at least five course essential Standards
1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 2.4 and 3.2 did not meet the standards. Similarly, the peer reviewers’ results
indicated that the course did not meet Standards 7.1, 7.2, and 8.1, however, interestingly,
the students disagreed with that decision.
Table 2 Student and Peer Reviewer Results on the Essential Standards
Essential
Student Results Peer Reviewer Results Items
Standards
1.1 YES NO 2
1.2 YES NO 1
2.1 YES YES 4
2.2 YES NO 5
2.4 YES NO 6
3.1 YES YES 14
3.2 YES NO 15
3.3 YES/YES YES 7, 16
4.1 YES YES 8
5.1 YES YES 13
5.2 YES YES 12
6.1 YES YES 20
6.3 YES YES 21
7.1 NO YES 22
7.2 NO YES 24
8.1 NO YES 25
No statistical differences were detected regarding the standards with the execption
of Standards 2.2, and 3.2. The two groups differed significantly regarding Standard
2.2 U = 4.500, Z = -2.887, p = .004, and Standard 3.2 U = 3.000, Z = -3.266, p = .001. See
Fig. 5 below.
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