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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Course Performance"”.
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Using data analytics to examine undergraduate computer science student course performance
… undergraduate students perform in their required courses in the computer science sequence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Undergraduate student data from students who majored in computer science were collected for the length of time they remained in the computer science …
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An Evaluation of Arkansas’ Developmental Coursework Policy at Postsecondary Institutions
… to and enrollment in postsecondary remedial coursework in the state of Arkansas. In this study, I evaluate the impacts of the policy on students’ academic achievement and attainment as measured by graduation rates and persistence. I include subgroup analyses of these outcomes to determine …
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An Analysis of the Impact of the CSU Peer Leader Program on Student Performance in 2014-2015
… efforts to retain students and increase student performance, Columbus State implemented a Peer Leader program. With access to archival data on the CSU Peer Leader Program, the goal of this project was to determine if the program at CSU had a significant impact on students’ course performance. The …
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The impact of motivational messages on student performance in community college online courses
… from an instructor to student had an impact on performance in an online course, with student performance measured by course completion and course performance as evidenced by final course grade. The sample for the study was students enrolled in 12 online classes offered by one community college …
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Learning Analytics: Understanding First-Year Engineering Students through Connected Student-Centered Data
… log-files from 876 students enrolled in the FYE course during Fall 2013. Following a series of quantitative analyses, I discovered that students who use the LMS more frequently are more likely to have higher grades within the course. This finding suggests that LMS usage might be a way to …
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Engaging Generation Z: A Study On Facebook Group Implementation In Language Courses And In Multiple Contexts
… and (3) Facebook groups can help improve student course performance. This research also gives examples of posts and suggestions for educators to consider before utilizing a Facebook group with students.</p>
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An examination of the employment of the pair programming methodology as a collaborative instructional scaffold on college student procedural learning and programming self-beliefs
… in an introductory computer programming course offered at a large university located in the Midwestern United States. Employing a design research theoretical perspective in a natural educational setting, the study used course performance data, survey data, and researcher observations to …
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Variables Predicting Success in an Advanced Medical-Surgical Nursing Course and the NCLEX-RN for Pre-Licensure Baccalaureate Nursing Students
… in a final Advanced Medical-Surgical nursing course and the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses, as well as their predictive abilities. Data were obtained from the academic records of 209 full-time and part-time nursing program graduates who completed an upper-division …
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The Impact of Active Learning Interventions on Student Outcomes in Core Mechanical Engineering Topics
… of self-efficacy, student satisfaction, and course performance by incorporating multiple active learning-based modules into the classroom. This dissertation is comprised of two distinct engineering education development projects. Both projects provide insight into the impact of hands-on …
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Design and Implementation of Faculty Support System to Reduce Course Dropout Rates
… challenge that universities face is high course drop rates. An early prediction of students’ failure may help to identify students who need special attention to reduce course drop rates by providing appropriate interventions, such as continuous mentoring and conducting review sessions. To …
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Analyzing Student Session Data in an eTextbook
… about relationships between behavior and performance. In this study, we describe our efforts to break raw event-level data first into sessions (a continuous series of work by a student) and then to meaningfully abstract the events into higher-level descriptions of that session. The goal of …
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Attitudes, behaviors, and learning outcomes from using classtranscribe, a UDL-featured video-based online learning platform with learnersourced text-searchable captions
… find relevant video moments from the entire course. Users could edit the machine-generated captions in a crowdsourcing way. The system logged student viewing, searching, and editing behaviors as fine-grained web browser interaction events including full-screen-switching, loss-of-focus, …
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The effects of reader-generated and previously existing text marking on comprehension in readers of different skill levels
… and that this inability is related to poorer course performance. The finding that low-skill readers report greater reliance on previously marked material, use text-marking strategies more often, and are less capable of identifying the most relevant material suggests that many low-skill readers …
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Reading foreign language websites : a qualitative investigation of students' reading strategies in German
… a role in foreign language Internet reading: course performance level, background knowledge, motivation, strategic reading, computer skills, problem-solving style, hypertext structure, and type of task. These factors lead to pedagogical implications for designing suitable Internet tasks for …
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Blended Learning and Bottlenecks in the California State University System: An Empirical Look at the Importance of Demographic and Performance Analytics
… the extent to which student demographics and performance analytics explain student success outcomes in a popular blended learning psychology course, an explanatory sequential design was used to study 18,254 students enrolled in the course between 2006 and 2014. In the initial quantitative part …
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Comparing Biology Grades Based on Instructional Delivery and Instructor at a Community College: Face-to-Face Course Versus Online Course.
… increased its online enrollments and online course offerings due to the growth of overall enrollment. The need and purpose of the study is to address if there is a difference in students’ grades between face-to-face and online biology related courses and if there are differences in grades …
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STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS THAT PREDICT PERSISTENCE AND PERFORMANCE IN ONLINE COURSES AND THE FACE-TO-FACE EQUIVALENTS AT A FOUR-YEAR PRIVATE NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
<p>Attrition in online courses is of growing concern in higher education. Many researchers and practitioners are concerned about student persistence (course completion) and performance (completion of a course with a grade of C or better) in online courses. This study investigated the undergraduate …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Cost-saving Strategies on Student Outcomes
… in distance education offerings through online coursework, an increasing reliance on part-time adjunct faculty, and a heated discussion about slashing expenditures on remedial education. Yet, many researchers argue that these strategies might be implemented at the cost of poorer educational …
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Learning to Fail? Student Experiences in Remedial Mathematics in Community Colleges
<p>Referral to remedial coursework in mathematics is a significant barrier to degree attainment for community college students, which in turn has serious consequences for their employment and earning prospects. Students are placed into remediation when they are deemed unprepared to engage in …