Online Learning, Offline Outcomes: Online Course Taking and High School Student Performance

• Main Authors: Cassandra M. D. Hart (Author), Dan Berger (Author), Brian Jacob (Author), Susanna Loeb (Author), Michael Hill (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This article uses fixed effects models to estimate differences in contemporaneous and downstream academic outcomes for students who take courses virtually and face-to-face-both for initial attempts and for credit recovery. We find that while contemporaneous outcomes are positive for virtual students...