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Thursday, June 10, 2004
Teachers from Online Master's Program Having Greater Impact on Students, Study Shows
A commissioned study released today by Walden University, an online higher education institution, shows that teachers enrolled in its distance-learning reading and literacy master's degree program significantly improved their students' reading scores over the course of a school year. Important findings of the study include: * Students taught by teachers completing Walden's M.S. in Education, with a specialization in Elementary Reading and Literacy, improved on the national level from the 40th percentile mean in the fall semester, to the 59th percentile mean in the spring semester. * Teachers in Walden University's master's degree program had an overall effect size of .51. Effect size is used by the U.S. Department of Education to measure educational significance. According to department standards, .51 is exemplary.
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