%0 Journal Article
%T Student Effort, Consistency and Online Performance
%A Hilde Patron
%A Salvador Lopez
%J Journal of Educators Online
%D 2011
%I Journal of Educators Online
%X This paper examines how student effort, consistency, motivation, and marginal learning, influence student grades in an online course. We use data from eleven Microeconomics courses taught online for a total of 212 students. Our findings show that consistency, or less time variation, is a statistically significant explanatory variable, whereas effort, or total minutes spent online, is not. Other independent variables include GPA and the difference between a pre-test and a post-test. The GPA is used as a measure of motivation, and the difference between a post-test and pre-test as marginal learning. As expected, the level of motivation is found statistically significant at a 99% confidence level, and marginal learning is also significant at a 95% level.
%U http://www.thejeo.com/Archives/Volume8Number2/PatronandLopezpaper.pdf