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Direct linkBeck, Dennis; French, Seth D.; Allred, Johnny B.; Goering, Christian Z. – Cogent Education, 2022
Virtual schooling in America is a complex notion, one riddled with simultaneous claims of provenance coupled with poor achievement results when compared to other forms of schooling. Recruitment practices for virtual schools, specifically available television-length advertisements from a national list of fully online schools, comprised a data set…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Content Analysis, Television, Advertising
Download full textYeol Huh; Dabae Lee; Charles M. Reigeluth – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2024
Studies have indicated that self-regulated learning is critical for 21st century learners and lifelong learners, and it can also explain students' learning outcomes. In the current learner-centered instruction, especially in online learning environments, self-regulated learning has become a more critical element for students' success. Given the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Virtual Schools, Self Management, Technology Uses in Education
Ebner, Aviva – Journal of Online Learning Research, 2023
Schools are typically highly structured institutions, so any shifts in processes can potentially generate anxiety, confusion, and even anger among staff. As such, when there is frequent change, initiatives often fail to achieve their intended goals. Well-intentioned initiatives can go awry when not consistently implemented correctly by all staff;…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Change Strategies, Reliability, Access to Information
Ian Seth Kingsbury – Journal of School Choice, 2023
A survey tasks young adults who graduated from virtual charters managed by a large education management organization to assess the degree to which virtual schools prepared them for postsecondary and career success. The same survey questions were also administered to a nationally representative group of American adults ages 18-29. Overall,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Technology Uses in Education, Virtual Schools
Dennis Beck – Cogent Education, 2024
At-risk students face a variety of challenges that encompass cultural, social and environmental contexts and identities. Full time virtual schools offer help for at-risk students through the provision of a personalized learning option where students can catch up with past work or complete school work in a non-traditional environment. The purpose…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, At Risk Students, Parent Attitudes, Virtual Schools
Kingsbury, Ian; Maranto, Robert; Beck, Dennis – Journal of School Choice, 2021
Cyber charter schools may increase access to a range of educational offerings, but they substantially underperform traditional public schools on measured academic performance, as demonstrated in a range of studies with distinct samples and methods. Artificial testing conditions offer a possible explanation. In contrast to face-to-face students,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Virtual Schools, Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests
Willermark, Sara; Islind, Anna Sigridur – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore virtual leadership work within educational settings in the light of social disruption. In 2020, a global pandemic changed the way we work. For school leaders, that involved running a virtual school overnight. Although there is a stream of research that explores leadership in solely virtual communities, there is…
Descriptors: Leadership, Affordances, Virtual Schools, COVID-19
Winton, Sara – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The phenomenon of high school dropouts is a silent epidemic that has been plaguing the United States. This study examined the effects of online education on mental health and student retention of online students within the scope of secondary education. The data for this mixed methods study was collected through anonymous online questionnaires sent…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Mental Health, Dropout Prevention, High School Students
Paulina Aravena-Bravo; Alejandrina Cristia; Rowena Garcia; Hiromasa Kotera; Ramona Kunene Nicolas; Ronel Laranjo; Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan; Margaret Cychosz; Rodrigo Dal Ben; Yatma Diop; Catalina Durán-Urzúa; Naomi Havron; Marie Manalili; Bhuvana Narasimhan; Paul Okyere Omane; Caroline Rowland; Leticia Schiavon Kolberg; Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata; Suzy J. Styles; Belén Troncoso-Acosta; Fei Ting Woon – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition, a free 5-day virtual school for early career researchers. In this paper, we describe the school, our experience organizing it, and lessons…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Acquisition, Virtual Schools, Educational Researchers
Sherry Inez Bumpus-Barnett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative non-experimental correlational study is to test the relationship between children having special needs and the rate of homeschooling and to test the relationship between parental dissatisfaction with the learning environments in public or private schools and the choice to homeschool. The theoretical framework in…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Special Needs Students
Esche, Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify decision-making factors from parents of Southeast Rural School District (SRSD) who chose to transfer their children to one of 14 cyber charter schools within Pennsylvania amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This research study utilized a phenomenological design, consisting of qualitative electronic…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Decision Making, School Choice, Transfer Students
Alexander Charles Rausch – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This non-experimental correlational quantitative research study was conducted to examine the relationship between the percentage of voluntary live synchronous virtual lesson attendance (LVLA) and the reading comprehension skill growth of sixth through eighth-grade English Language Arts (ELA) students enrolled in a Pennsylvania full-time online…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Electronic Learning, Reading Comprehension, Grade 6
Shirin Khosravian – ProQuest LLC, 2022
For-profit, online, higher education institutions have lower student retention rates than institutions in other categories. Higher education leaders are concerned with low retention as it adversely impacts financial and student outcomes. Grounded in Morgan and Hunt's relationship marketing theory, the purpose of this qualitative, exploratory,…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, For Profit Colleges, Virtual Schools, Higher Education
Beck, Dennis; Beasley, Jennifer – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
Despite a large increase in enrollments of students in online courses at the K-12 level, there is very little research on the use of differentiation in fully online (called "virtual") schools. This study asked virtual teachers from two different types of schools to discuss their differentiation practices, and compared differentiation…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Virtual Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
George Veletsianos; Valerie Irvine; Nicole Johnson – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2023
This project undertook an analysis of the evolving nature of online, hybrid, and multi-access learning within the British Columbia (BC) post-secondary education system. The project objectives included assessing potential changes in the scope and nature of online learning in BC, understanding stakeholder insights on learner preferences towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Blended Learning
