In-Person Versus Online Teaching and Learning: Teachers and Students as Co-Researchers

• In Event: Collaboration as Construction: Building Shared Insights Through Teacher Inquiry

Abstract

This study was conducted by five K-12 teachers to explore different modes of teaching at an after school mathematics program. We compared the performance of our fourth grade students in in-person classes in 2019-2020 against those students who studied online in 2020-2021. The students in regular classes had higher homework scores and spent less time on homework than students who studied during the COVID year online. This finding supports our personal experience that elementary grade students may benefit more from in-person instruction than from online teaching. In addition, we utilized our research as project-based learning for a group of our high school students who assisted in multiple ways. Our experiences have opened up many new lines of future research.

Authors

• Oksana Ilina, Russian School of Mathematics
  Presenting Author

• Sona Antonyan, Russian School of Mathematics
  Presenting Author

• Anna Mirny, Russian School of Mathematics
  Non-Presenting Author

• Olga Lepsky
  Non-Presenting Author

• Jenya Brodskaia
  Non-Presenting Author

• Larry Houston Ludlow, Boston College
  Presenting Author

• Rohan Venkatesh, Park Hill South High School
  Presenting Author

• Mihir Balsara
  Non-Presenting Author

• Kian Keyhan
  Non-Presenting Author

• Alexander Mylnikov, University of St. Andrews
  Non-Presenting Author

• Adam Quackenbush, Boston University Academy
  Non-Presenting Author

• Jordyn Tarlie
  Non-Presenting Author

• Aleksandra Tyutunik
  Non-Presenting Author