The Results Are In: Online Learning Works Recent Study Looks at
Impact of Online Learning Do you want to go to school online?
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National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) was involved in a
recent study of online learning, called “Report on Outcomes from
the Study of a SciPack Deployment in the Houston Independent
School District during School Year 2009-2010.” The results are
finally in: online learning works. The study was performed by
Edvantia, a not-for-profit education research firm based in West
Virginia. Their hope was to better understand how online
learning affected teachers’ content knowledge, or how well
teachers understood what they were teaching, as well as student
performance. There were about 60 teachers involved in the study,
all of whom taught 5th, 6th, or 8th grades in Texas’s Houston
Independent School District (HISD). The teachers used SciPacks,
a web-based program developed by NSTA. As part of the program,
teachers: - Participated in