Student Progress in Distance Education : Indentification of Explanatory Constructs  

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Kember, David ; Murphy, David ; Yuen, K.S. ; Siaw, Irene ; Lai, Tammy ; K. S. Yuen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Journal of Educational Psychology vol. 67 no. 03 (Sep. 1997), page 285-292.
Topik: EDUCATION; DESP; distance education; explanatory constructs; student progress; The Distance Education Students' Progress

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: B13 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper reports the testing and development of a model of student progress for distance education students. The constructs which have been used to explain drop-out in on campus courses are not directly applicable to distance education. The Distance Education Students' Progress (DESP) inventory has been developed, containing four scales, made up from 17 subscales, which emerged from the factor analysis. The scales relate to approach to learning, motivation, language ability and the extent to which the student is able to integrate study demands with personal, family, work and social commitments. Semi-sttuctured interviews were used to assist in deriving and interpreting the scales and to help establish their validity. The identified consttucts have been used to test a theoretical model using path analysis techniques. The four scales serve as intervening variables between envolment characteristics and grade and persistence criteria. The results support open entry for the courses as the identified constructs have a higher correlation than entry qualifications with the grades attained by students.

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