Data and Code for: Zooming to Class?: Experimental Evidence on College Students' Online Learning during COVID-19

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Michael S. Kofoed, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Lucas Gebhart, United States Army; Dallas Gilmore, United States Army; Ryan Moschitto, United States Army

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Project Citation: 

Kofoed, Michael S. , Gebhart, Lucas, Gilmore, Dallas , and Moschitto, Ryan . Data and Code for: Zooming to Class?: Experimental Evidence on College Students’ Online Learning during COVID-19. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-12-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/E193362V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary  One persistent question in higher education is the efficacy of online education.    In the fall of 2020, we randomized 551 West Point students in a required introductory economics course across twelve instructors to either an online or in-person class as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Final grades for online students dropped by 0.215 standard deviations, a result apparent in both assignments and exams and largest for academically at-risk students.  A post-course survey finds that online students struggled to concentrate in class and felt less connected to their instructors and peers.  Our results show detrimental effects for online learning.

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Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Randomized Controlled Trial
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      I21 Analysis of Education
      I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions


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