494. Assessing the impact of blended learning on student performance

Do Won Kwak, Flavio M. Menezes and Carl Sherwood, School of Economics Discussion Paper No. 494 October 2013, School of Economics, The University of Queensland. Australia.

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Abstract

This paper assesses quantitatively the impact on student performance of a blended learning experiment within a large undergraduate first year course in statistics for business and economics students. We employ a differences- in-difference econometric approach, which controls for differences in student characteristics and course delivery method, to evaluate the impact of blended learning on student performance. Although students in the course manifest a preference for live lectures over online delivery, our empirical analysis strongly suggests that student performance is not affected (either positively or negatively) by the introduction of blended learning.