dc.contributor.author	Herring, Laura Cutchin	en_US
dc.coverage.spatial	Gwinnett County, Georgia	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	2005-2007	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-10-07T19:15:45Z	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2011-03-02T17:28:50Z
dc.date.available	2009-10-07T19:15:45Z	en_US
dc.date.available	2011-03-02T17:28:50Z
dc.date.issued	2007-05	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10428/417	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of this action research study was to investigate the relationship between interaction and student learning experiences in an online high school world history course. As outlined in the action research proposal, the increased opportunities for interaction in this study included the addition of a virtual office discussion board, a student lounge discussion board, a biography assignment, and a highly interactive assignment on a unit on European absolute monarchies. As described in the article manuscript, data was collected before, during, and after the intervention using pre-intervention and post-intervention surveys, student interviews, pretests and posttests on social studies content, and teacher observations and recordings. The results showed that participants preferred high levels of interaction with the course instructor, but did not consider interaction with their peers as important as interaction with the instructor. Results also indicated the amount of interaction that participants had with the instructor and with one another had little effect on student performance, as measured by improvement in pretest and posttest scores and grades on the absolute monarchies assignment.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	interaction	en_US
dc.subject	online history course	en_US
dc.subject	high school	en_US
dc.title	Online High School World History: Does Interaction Make a Difference?	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Curriculum and Instructional Technology	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Schmertzing, Lorraine	en_US
dc.description.committee	Dees, Dianne C.	en_US
dc.description.degree	Ed.S.	en_US
dc.description.major	Instructional Technology	en_US