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Naugle, Helen; McGuire, Peter – 1978
Georgia Institute of Technology has created a preparatory workshop that avoids focusing composition courses on the state competency exam while helping its students pass the exam. In checking the exams of students who had failed, three problems appeared: lack of motivation, lack of awareness of the standards for grading the exam, and an inability…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Failure, Higher Education
