Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Teaching, Learning and Education
Year: 2024
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The Impact of Exemplars on the Academic Outcomes for Masters in Education Online Graduate Students
Shad A. Morrow, Ed.D.
ABSTRACT:
Annotated exemplars have lately come under scrutiny as an academic support strategy in the context of Higher Education Institutes (HEI’s). The idea being that the use of exemplars may front-load the system regarding student academic performance through the provision of providing meaningful feedback and task-specific comments before formal student submissions. More specifically, The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research regarding exemplar use has called for the investigation of these exemplars on academic performance for the online graduate student. The proposed study intends to explore how the integration of exemplars impacts the academic outcomes of master’s in education online graduate students. Academic outcomes may include, but are not limited to exemplar engagement demographics, hit rates on the learning management site (LMS) regarding exemplar usage, assessment marks, and overall course marks. The proposed study methodology and design will be quantitative quasi-experimental using traditional pre-/post- techniques using archival data regarding this exemplar implementation with a convenience sample. The objective stated explicitly is to investigate if and to what extent the use of annotated exemplars impacts overarching student outcomes for graduate students at a university in the southwestern United States.
keywords: academic performance; distance education; higher education; teaching; SoTL