The article that I found can be located in the UVU electronic article database. The link to find it is http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.uvu.edu/stable/3783802?&Search=yes&term=education&term=research&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Deducation%2Bresearch%26wc%3Don&item=10&ttl=502104&returnArticleService=showArticle. The title of the article is, "Evaluatin of Home-Study Verses Teacher-Taught Hunter Education: Expanding Learning Opportunities"
Home study for Hunter education was evaluated as a way to provide systematic content to courses, to open up classroom time for hands on activities and discussions, to cover a greater depth of subject matter, and to actively involve students in the learning process. Randomly selected students from Texas, Colorado, and New Jersey. They were divided into 3 groups: home study, teacher taught, and pre-test control. There were no difference between home taught and teacher taught scores, but there was a huge difference in the control group.
This research is a good example of experimental research. The researcher changes one variable in the environment to see if that variable has a cause and effect relationship. The variable in this case was the teaching method. They were able to see that one method was more effective then another. However the bad thing about this is that one group did not receive the same quality education as the other two groups. I think that if it were me I would try my hardest to level the playing field in any research experiment that I would conduct.
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You say there was a huge difference in the control group. What do you mean? They were significantly less prepared than one or both of the other groups?
There was a huge difference in the way the control group retained the information of the class.
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