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Basic skill achievement factors as predictors of success in selected community college general education course

Abstract

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The purpose of this study is to examine the . relationship and effects of New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT) scores and grades in basic skills reading, elementary algebra, and English/ writing courses with the students' success in selected college-level general education courses in an attempt to establish predictor variables. In addition, the study examines the possibility that predictions of success in general education courses can be made more accurately by using multiple prediction variables. The population for the study consisted of seven years of successful basic skill course grades, New Jersey College Basic Skill Placement Test (NJCBSPT) scores and successful general education course grades for students at one small, rural community college. Coefficients of determination, correlation coefficients, t-tests, and linear and multiple regression were some of the analysis techniques used.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Doctor of Education
Level thesis:degree_level
doctoral
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Educational Administration
Department dc:contributor.department
Educational Administration
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
1992

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Lobb, Jack L.
Chairs dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Worner, Wayne M.
  • McKeen, Ronald L.
  • Chaloux, Bruce N.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Fortune, Jimmie C.
  • Smith, Richard T.
  • Conley, Houston

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
etd-12222005-090631
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/40446

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Lobb, Jack L.. Basic skill achievement factors as predictors of success in selected community college general education course. doctoral thesis, Virginia Tech, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40446