391). This, Vindovich (2002) both acknowledges the difference between traditional and distance education and validates this type of education as having the same academics as traditional education.

Although studying distance education in terms of quality and quality comparison with classroom education is valid, another approach to determining whether distance education is of the same quality as classroom education is up to the students. Programs and teachers can influence school quality, but students' efforts can largely impact education quality as well. This is what researchers Lawless and Richardson (2002) found when they determined that "approaches to studying in distance education are strongly associated with students' perception of the academic quality of their courses" (p. 257). In other words, the researchers found that the quality of distance education was not measured by some arbitrary method, but by the students' own effort. Furthermore, Richardon and Woodley (2001) examined deaf students' studying in distance...
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