Practice is an essential component in learning any new skill.For learning the quantitative disciplines at the university level, web-based homework management systems provide the means for extensive practice with immediate feedback, which research suggests should lead to increased student learning (Palocsay & Stevens, 2008; Titard, DeFranceschi, & Knight, 2014).Do web-based homework management systems improve student learning, as measured by exam scores, for adult learners in an online course? Does the use of simple Microsoft Excel-based Seasonality, soil attributes and root biomass in cerrado, cerradão and forest environments, western Amazon homework templates relate to improved student exam scores? This natural experiment divided a sample of 2431 online students in an entry level university economics course into three treatment groups to look at the relationship between homework support and exam scores.
Group A received no formal homework support.Group Efek Ketergantungan Remaja K-Popers Terhadap Media Sosial di Kota Palu B got simple Microsoft Excel templates.Group C got an online homework management system with custom e-textbook.
This study compares learning effectiveness of the three treatment approaches based on student exam scores.The results show that mean exam scores increased from 55.29% to 68.
24%, with the addition of a web-based homework management system.Additionally, 74.52% of variance in exam scores was explained by variance in homework scores under the web-based homework management system that allowed three attempts on every question.
This strong relationship suggests that practice provided by the web-based homework management system is correlated with increased student learning as evidenced by the increased exam scores.