Dennis Beck
Biographic Data
| ID | 6769137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Beck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Beck |
| SIGNATURE | BECK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1771-3237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How marginalized identities are related to cyber charter school enrollment
Forced choice? Is bullying pushing non-binary students into cyber schools
Little research addresses the schooling experiences of non-binary students; no prior work explores their experiences in cyber schools. Using unique data from a US multi-state cyber charter school, we compare the factors parents of non-binary students and parents of other students stated as reasons for leaving their prior schools to attend a cyber charter school in fall 2019 (before the COVID-19 pandemic). Despite a small sample size, we found sta…
Be prepared
During the COVID-19 pandemic it was clear that not all schools were equally prepared to adapt to the challenges of online learning. While many traditional public schools struggled to transition to remote teaching, cyber charter schools–which already had experience with full-time online learning–appeared to demonstrate superior academic performance and less learning loss. This success may be due in part to the greater experience of these schools w…
What Kind of Students Attend Cyber Schools? Pandemic Enrollment as Evidence of Negative Selection
Fully online virtual schools have consistently underperformed academically compared to brick and mortar schools. Scholars debate the extent to which these differences are due school quality or the type of student that attends virtual schools. The large number of students who enrolled in virtual schools during the COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to revisit this debate, as the phenomenon plausibly attenuates negative selection into …
The Role of the Advocate in Cyber Schools during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Existing research on facilitators in K-12 schools has focused on supplemental online programs where on-site personnel work with online students in a local brick-and-mortar school. While some insightful research exists focused on online facilitators at full-time cyber schools, additional research is needed to examine facilitators using synchronous support. The purpose of this study was to determine whether and how the role of a facilitator in a fu…
Choosing cyber during Covid
Substantial research has already examined how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected in-person schooling, but no prior work has explored its effects on cyber schools. Here, Robert Maranto, Dennis Beck, Tom Clark, Bich Tran, and Feng Liu compare the students entering a large national cyber charter school network in spring 2020, during the pandemic, with students entering in 2019 and 2018, before the pandemic. They find that the COVID cohort resembled …
Defining Differentiation in Cyber Schools
The Online School Librarian
Synthesizing Presence
This multidisciplinary literature review analyzed one hundred and eight peer-reviewed journal articles focusing on presence from four academic disciplines: Mass Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, Education, and Psychology. It was conducted because there was a need for a comprehensive, integrated understanding of presence. Results strongly indicate that presence includes both objective and subjective criteria, and thus should be measured i…
The other side of the LMS
The other side of the LMS
Synthesizing Presence
This multidisciplinary literature review analyzed one hundred and eight peer-reviewed journal articles focusing on presence from four academic disciplines: Mass Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, Education, and Psychology. It was conducted because there was a need for a comprehensive, integrated understanding of presence. Results strongly indicate that presence includes both objective and subjective criteria, and thus should be measured i…
The Online School Librarian
Defining Differentiation in Cyber Schools
Choosing cyber during Covid
Substantial research has already examined how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected in-person schooling, but no prior work has explored its effects on cyber schools. Here, Robert Maranto, Dennis Beck, Tom Clark, Bich Tran, and Feng Liu compare the students entering a large national cyber charter school network in spring 2020, during the pandemic, with students entering in 2019 and 2018, before the pandemic. They find that the COVID cohort resembled …
What Kind of Students Attend Cyber Schools? Pandemic Enrollment as Evidence of Negative Selection
Fully online virtual schools have consistently underperformed academically compared to brick and mortar schools. Scholars debate the extent to which these differences are due school quality or the type of student that attends virtual schools. The large number of students who enrolled in virtual schools during the COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to revisit this debate, as the phenomenon plausibly attenuates negative selection into …
The Role of the Advocate in Cyber Schools during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Existing research on facilitators in K-12 schools has focused on supplemental online programs where on-site personnel work with online students in a local brick-and-mortar school. While some insightful research exists focused on online facilitators at full-time cyber schools, additional research is needed to examine facilitators using synchronous support. The purpose of this study was to determine whether and how the role of a facilitator in a fu…
Be prepared
During the COVID-19 pandemic it was clear that not all schools were equally prepared to adapt to the challenges of online learning. While many traditional public schools struggled to transition to remote teaching, cyber charter schools–which already had experience with full-time online learning–appeared to demonstrate superior academic performance and less learning loss. This success may be due in part to the greater experience of these schools w…
Forced choice? Is bullying pushing non-binary students into cyber schools
Little research addresses the schooling experiences of non-binary students; no prior work explores their experiences in cyber schools. Using unique data from a US multi-state cyber charter school, we compare the factors parents of non-binary students and parents of other students stated as reasons for leaving their prior schools to attend a cyber charter school in fall 2019 (before the COVID-19 pandemic). Despite a small sample size, we found sta…
How marginalized identities are related to cyber charter school enrollment
Psychology (9 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Charter (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Pandemic (4 works) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (3 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (3 works)