The comparative literature references above focuses solely on the supplemental K-12 online learning environment. Locate one research article that focuses specifically on comparing student performance in the full-time K-12 online learning environment with student performance in the traditional brick-and-mortar environment and critique that study.
O'Dwyers (2007) conducted a study comparing K-12 online learning versus the traditional face to face classroom in a Louisiana Algebra I course. Her main objective was to find out if the students in the online course were as effective as the face to face class. This was a quasi-experimental design that studied the impact on student outcomes. The online students actually outscored the comparison classrooms on 18 of 25 items on the post test. "Overall, students in the treatment group performed as well as students in the comparison face-to-face classrooms" (O'Dwyers, 2007).
O'Dwyer, L. (2007). A Study of the Effectiveness of the Louisiana Algebra I Online
Course. Journal of Research On Technology In Education, 39(3), 289-306.
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