Students' performance on a paper-mediated versus multimedia tutorial for learning networking concepts
| dc.contributor.author | Brown, Herbert Franklin III | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Schmidt, B. June | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Stewart, Daisy L. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Camp, William G. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Price, William T. Jr. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Fournier, Randolph S. | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Vocational and Technical Education | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-14T21:23:06Z | en |
| dc.date.adate | 2005-11-10 | en |
| dc.date.available | 2014-03-14T21:23:06Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 1996-12-09 | en |
| dc.date.rdate | 2005-11-10 | en |
| dc.date.sdate | 2005-11-10 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This study was designed to determine the degree to which learner affective and personal characteristics affect student achievement through multimedia and paper-mediated instruction. Two research questions were examined: (a) Is there a difference in gain between pretest and post test for the paper-mediated instruction group and the multimedia instruction group; (b) What is the effect of paper-mediated and multimedia instruction on achievement, when controlling for affective and personal characteristics? The statistical procedures used to examine the research questions were dependent t-tests and analysis of covariance. Participants were 61 students from four classes enrolled in introductory computer classes in a high school in the Roanoke region of Virginia. The classes were randomly assigned to either a paper-mediated or multimedia treatment. Procedures involved having the participants from both groups complete five stages, either on paper or on the computer, based on group assignment. First, they completed a personal characteristics form. Second, they completed an attitude toward computers Likert-type scale, consisting of four subscales (anxiety, confidence, liking, usefulness). Third, they completed a 20-question pretest on networking terminology. Fourth, they reviewed instructional material in either a paper or multimedia presentation form. Upon completion of the paper or multimedia computer tutorial, the participants completed a 20-item posttest on networking terminology. Based on the results of two dependent t-tests on the pretest and posttest for each treatment group, students did realize a gain in achievement from the pretest to posttest in both groups. In testing research question two, the analysis of covariance revealed a significant treatment effect and gender as a significant covariate. Students in the paper-mediated group performed better than those in the multimedia group. Females performed higher regardless of the treatment group. | en |
| dc.description.degree | Ph. D. | en |
| dc.format.extent | vii, 123 leaves | en |
| dc.format.medium | BTD | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.other | etd-11102005-141130 | en |
| dc.identifier.sourceurl | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11102005-141130/ | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40324 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.relation.haspart | LD5655.V856_1996.B769.pdf | en |
| dc.relation.isformatof | OCLC# 36391814 | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | business | en |
| dc.subject | tutorial | en |
| dc.subject | paper-mediated | en |
| dc.subject | multimedia | en |
| dc.subject | networking | en |
| dc.subject.lcc | LD5655.V856 1996.B769 | en |
| dc.title | Students' performance on a paper-mediated versus multimedia tutorial for learning networking concepts | en |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Vocational and Technical Education | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | doctoral | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph. D. | en |
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