Search results for author:"Cassandra Shaw"
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Forum Quality or Quantity: What is Driving Student Engagement Online?
Cassandra S. Shaw; Kathleen C. Irwin
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 20, No. 3 (2017)
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between forum quality and student engagement. It was hypothesized when the forum prompt was of expected quality it would be a driver of student engagement and examined the length of the...
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Critical Thinking and Online Supplemental Instruction: A Case Study
Cassandra S. Shaw; Karen E. Holmes
Learning Assistance Review Vol. 19, No. 1 (2014) pp. 99–119
A wealth of research is available regarding supplemental instruction; however, a dearth exists regarding online supplemental instruction and critical thinking. This case study explored what was assumed to be known of critical thinking and...
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Impact of Course Quality on Student Academic Performance
Cassandra Shaw; Kathleen Irwin; Thomas Schaefer; Chad Patrizi
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 74–79
Quality was thought to be an important factor in the delivery of online courses. Quality is defined as "a high level of value or excellence" by Merriam Webster (Quality, 2016). Through this research, a quality pre-assessment in the business,...
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Faculty Personality: A Factor of Student Retention
Cassandra S. Shaw; Xiaodong Wu; Kathleen C. Irwin; L. A. Chad Patrizi
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 19, No. 1 (2016)
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between student retention and faculty personality as it was hypothesized that faculty personality has an effect on student retention. The methodology adopted for this study was quantitative ...