Teacher Interaction: Motivating At-Risk Students in Web-based High School Courses

At-risk high school students working in a Web-based beginning composition course interacted for seven weeks with an online teacher in one of four different styles of interaction. Students received e-mails enhanced with motivation-building content and/or caring/personal-investment content. Students were observed as they worked in the course, and four variables—including ratings of electronic communication between teacher and student—were analyzed...