Close this Advertisement

Student Attitudes: Online Learning

  • 02/01/09
HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Nearly 60 percent of students in grades 9 to 12 have either taken a course online or are interested in doing so.
  • Getting extra help in a subject is the most popular reason students in grades 6 to 8 would consider taking a class online.
  • For both grade groups, math is the course that the largest number of students report taking online.

Drill Down

Drill Down

Drill Down

Drill Down--Data courtesy of Speak Up, an annual national research project that surveys K-12 students, teachers, parents, and administrators. Speak Up is produced by Project Tomorrow, a national education nonprofit organization providing leadership, research, and programming to support science, math, and technology education in America’s schools.

This article originally appeared in the 02/01/2009 issue of THE Journal.

comments powered by Disqus

White Papers:

  • Cypress Woods High School – Project HUNCH Stratasys

    Project HUNCH (High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware) gives students the opportunity to design and build products for potential use in space missions. As part of this project, NASA asked the students of Cypress Woods High School to design and build a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that carries a camera and can maneuver around the zero-gravity environment of the International Space Station (ISS) under the direction of ground control. Learn how the students used 3D printing to quickly and inexpensively build functional prototypes to test and improve the functionality of their design. Read more...