About the Database
The No Significant Difference database was first established in 2004 as a companion piece to Thomas L. Russell’s book, “The No Significant Difference Phenomenon” (2001, IDECC, fifth edition), a fully indexed, comprehensive research bibliography of 355 research reports, summaries and papers that document no significant differences (NSD) in student outcomes between alternate modes of education delivery. Learn More
Records: 210
Title:
Cost-Effectiveness of Computer-Based Education in Military Training
Author/s:
S. Orlansky
J. String
Year:
1979
Excerpt:
…overall difference in achievement had no practical signifi-cance because no significant difference in achievement was found in thirty-two studies.
Finding:
No Significant Difference
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Title:
Re-examining the Methodology of Research on Media & Technology in Education
Author/s:
G. Saloman
R. Clark
Year:
1977
Excerpt:
Studies have consistently reported achievement on performance tests was similar regardless of the medium used…media (face-to-face versus television) were not significant factors on achievement…
Finding:
No Significant Difference
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Title:
Classroom Television: New Frontiers in ITV-Research and the Wonder Drug
Author/s:
G. Gordon
Year:
1976
Excerpt:
The kind of research that characterizes most of the docu-ments purporting to examine ITV…show no significant difference between courses taught over television and equivalent courses given to live matched groups.
Finding:
No Significant Difference
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Title:
An Experimental Evaluation of a Computer-based Management System
Author/s:
T. Anderson
R. Anderson
B. Dalgaard
Biddle
Year:
1975
Excerpt:
Results from this study indicated that students using CAISMS scored significantly higher on all course exams.
Finding:
Significant Difference – Better Results with Technology
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Title:
Learning From Television: What the Research Says
Author/s:
G. Chu
W. Schramm
Year:
1975
Excerpt:
…an experimental study with 80 college students to test the effect of feedback on learning. No difference was found in learning and retention among four treatments…There can no longer be any real doubt that children and adults learn a great amount from instructional television..The effectiveness of television has now been demonstrated…in many parts of the world, in developing as well as industrialized countries, at every level from pre-school through adult education, and with a great variety of subject matter and methods…No difference was found in learning and retention…
Finding:
No Significant Difference
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Title:
The Video Tape Presentation versus the “Live” Presentation: Better, Worse or the Same?
Author/s:
J. Thorman
T. Amb
Year:
1974
Excerpt:
…the students learned the same amount, as measured by test performance, whether they were taught by the videotape-discussion method or by the lecture-discussion method…
Finding:
No Significant Difference
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Title:
Computer Extended Instruction in Introductory Calculus
Author/s:
M. Lang
Year:
1973
Excerpt:
…CAI has the potential to be an effective means of improving the students’ understanding of the basic concepts of calculus. No statictical significance was found for achievement …
Finding:
No Significant Difference
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Title:
Quality in Instructional Television: What Research Says About ITV
Author/s:
W. Schram
Year:
1972
Excerpt:
Students like a ‘talkback’ system, but seem to learn no more with it than without it…No learning advantage has been demonstrated for ‘professional’ or ‘artistic’ production techniques…
Finding:
No Significant Difference
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Title:
Cable Television and Higher Education: Two Contrasting Experiences
Author/s:
L. Johnson
Year:
1971
Excerpt:
…students can learn about as well from television as from classroom instruction…
Finding:
No Significant Difference
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Title:
Instructional Radio. An Evaluation of Instructional Technology
Author/s:
R. Forsythe
Year:
1970
Excerpt:
Experimental studies comparing radio teaching with other means or media have found radio as effective as the so-called ‘conventional methods’. Even though radio has been criticized for being only an audio medium, studies have shown that visual elements in learning are not uniformly important.
Finding:
No Significant Difference
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