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Online Course Completion Rates and Quality Matters Course Templates: A Causal-Comparative Study at a Midwestern Community College

Mootispaw, Angel D
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=frank1651585296183824

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2022, Doctorate of Professional Studies in Instructional Design Leadership, Franklin University, International Institute for Innovative Instruction.
Online course persistence at community colleges is a serious issue, with students being between 3 and 15 percentage points more likely to withdraw than those taking the on-campus equivalent (Xu et al., 2019). Despite the continued growth in distance education, quality online course design is a concern throughout the literature. This quantitative, causal-comparative study aimed to investigate the existence of a statistically significant relationship between online course templates, using Quality Matters Specific Review Standards, and online course completion rates at one Midwestern Community College. An ex post facto causal-comparative method was chosen for this study because the Midwestern Community College progressively implemented Quality Matters Specific Review Standards over three Fall academic terms providing an opportunity to investigate increasing quality standards through online templates, retrospectively, in a naturally occurring environment. Descriptive Statistics, Linear Regression, and a One-Way ANOVA were employed in the data analysis. The study results revealed a statistically significant relationship between online course completion rates and online course templates using QM Specific Review Standards.
Niccole Hyatt (Committee Chair)
Joel Gardner (Committee Member)
Matthew Barclay (Committee Member)
136 p.
Community College Education; Community Colleges; Education; Higher Education; Instructional Design
Community college; Quality Matters; online course templates; online course completion rates; quantitative; causal-comparative; distance education; distance learning; online learning

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  • Mootispaw, A. D. (2022). Online Course Completion Rates and Quality Matters Course Templates: A Causal-Comparative Study at a Midwestern Community College [Doctoral dissertation, Franklin University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=frank1651585296183824

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mootispaw, Angel. Online Course Completion Rates and Quality Matters Course Templates: A Causal-Comparative Study at a Midwestern Community College. 2022. Franklin University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=frank1651585296183824.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mootispaw, Angel. "Online Course Completion Rates and Quality Matters Course Templates: A Causal-Comparative Study at a Midwestern Community College." Doctoral dissertation, Franklin University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=frank1651585296183824

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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