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        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFEDU</journal-id>
        <journal-title-group>
            <journal-title>Informatics in Education</journal-title>
        </journal-title-group>
        <issn pub-type="epub">1648-5831</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">1648-5831</issn>
        <publisher>
            <publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
        </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
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                <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFE070</article-id>
                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/infedu.2007.12</article-id>
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            <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
                <subject>Article</subject>
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                        <title-group>
            <article-title>What&#039;s the Difference, Still? A Follow up Methodological Review of the Distance Education Research</article-title>
        </title-group>
                        <contrib-group>
                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>RANDOLPH</surname>
                    <given-names>Justus J.</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:justus.randolph@cs.joensuu.fi">justus.randolph@cs.joensuu.fi</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_000"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_000">University of Joensuu, Department of Computer Science P.O. Box 111, FIN-80110, Joensuu, Finland</aff>
                                </contrib-group>
                                                                            <volume>6</volume>
                                <issue>1</issue>
                                    <fpage>179</fpage>
                        <lpage>188</lpage>
                                <pub-date pub-type="epub">
                        <day>15</day>
                                    <month>04</month>
                        <year>2007</year>
        </pub-date>
                                        <abstract>
                        <p>A high quality review of the distance learning literature from 1992-1999 concluded that most of the research on distance learning had serious methodological flaws. This paper presents the results of a small-scale replication of that review. A sample of 66 articles was drawn from three leading distance education journals. Those articles were categorized by study type, and the experimental or quasi-experimental articles were analyzed in terms of their research methodologies. The results indicated that the sample of post-1999 articles had the same methodological flaws as the sample of pre-1999 articles: most participants were not randomly selected, extraneous variables and reactive effects were not controlled for, and the validity and reliability of measures were not reported.</p>
                    </abstract>
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            <label>Keywords</label>
                        <kwd>distance education</kwd>
                        <kwd>methodological review</kwd>
                        <kwd>research methodology</kwd>
                    </kwd-group>
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