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Standardized Testing Placement And High School Gpa As Predictors Of Success In Remedial Math
… questions. First, who belongs in developmental mathematics and secondly, what is the nature of the relationship between current placement methodology and community college student success in developmental mathematics courses? In this study the researcher examined the relationship between single …
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A Study of the Perceptual Learning Styles of Fifth and Sixth Grade Remedial and Non-Remedial Math Students
… difference in the perceptual learning styles of remedial and non-remedial mathematics students. A further purpose was to determine if there were any combinations of learnings style variables and mathematics subtest scores that would serve as significant predictors of remedial or non-remedial …
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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 …
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Mathematics anxiety and the college student
This study was designed to investigate whether mathematics anxiety is correlated to choice of major in college, the need to be enrolled in a remedial math course and average mathematics grades. Types of mathematical problems, statements and situations were also viewed to determine which of the …
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Measuring The Effectiveness of a Two-Period Algebra Class: A Program Evaluation
… course is an effective intervention for freshman math students as compared to the one-period freshman Algebra course by reviewing student assessment data, student growth indicators, and course enrollment data. In addition to quantitative data, student, teacher, and administrator perceptions of the …
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Academic Performance and Engagement of Educational Opportunity Program Students in a College Algebra Extended Class at the State University of New York, New Platz
… Generally, EOP students are admitted with low mathematics placement scores. In the past, they would have been required to do remedial math. However, since college remedial math is no longer available, the CAEP was implemented to remedy this problem. This study was conducted to examine how a …
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Essays on the Economics of Community College Students' Academic and Labor Market Success
… who are identified to have the lowest skills in mathematics. Descriptively, while students assigned to remediation tend to have poor outcomes overall, students assigned to the lowest levels of remedial math have the worst outcomes of all students. I use data from the state of Virginia's 2004 …
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Analyzing Student Retention: A Study Of The Effect Of Remedial Courses
… in New Jersey.|It was hypothesized that remedial courses would have a statistical effect on second-year retention. Utilizing quantitative data and a t-test, no statistically significant difference was found between students being enrolled in remedial courses and retention to their second …
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An Event History Analysis on the Effects of Academic Integration Factors on Degree Completion of Low-Income Underrepresented Minority Students
… completion of college level English and Math courses, completion of 20 credit hours, receiving an advanced or basic certificate, maintaining a high ratio of courses attempted to earned, earning a higher GPA, taking online courses, and transferring to a four year institution. Factors that …
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Multimedia mathematics intervention for math-delayed middle school students
… of this study is to determine if the Sharpening Math Skills Lab technology-mediated mathematics instructional practices for math-delayed middle school students have positive effects on their mathematics achievement and spatial visualization ability and to gauge student engagement in learning, …
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The role of signaling from a student perspective on math remediation in the transition from high school to community colleges
… state regarding why they were placed into a remedial algebra course when enrolling directly out of high school. The study uses the concept of signaling to examine how students interpret signals from sources such as counselors, teachers, peers, and policies. Understanding how students use the …
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COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP: COLLEGE MATH READINESS PROGRAM
… school seniors transitioning into college-level math courses through the college math readiness program, an existing community college intermediate algebra course. In addition to archival records and documents, college math faculty, high school math teachers, administrators and staff, and college …