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Direct linkBeth Ann Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative research study considered three academic factors, seven student-level variables, and four success measures across ten years of academic data related to undergraduate remedial mathematics beginning with the 2009-2010 academic year and ending with the 2018-2019 academic year. Secondary data was used to determine if there was a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Curriculum Development, Developmental Studies Programs
Little, Mark Douglas – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to find predictors of academic success, persistence, retention, and completion for students enrolled in community college developmental education mathematics courses utilizing an accelerated emporium model learning environment. Instructional practices have been shown to have a powerful impact on the desire and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Mathematics Instruction, Remedial Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs
Download full textNorthern Virginia Community Coll., Annandale. Office of Institutional Research. – 2001
This document discusses the enrollment of Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) students in developmental English, developmental math, and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses. Students examined were first-time students, transfer students, continuing students, and returning students. Enrollment statistics and demographic data from fall…
Descriptors: Age, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, English
Peer reviewedJohnson, Laurence F. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1996
Discusses a study examining the relationship between student academic performance in an exit-level, developmental mathematics course and subsequent academic performance in a college-level mathematics course. Finds that developmental course performance and student age were significantly and positively related to academic success, while length of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, College Mathematics, Community Colleges
Reap, Margaret C.; Covington, Helen C. – 1980
A study was conducted at North Harris County College to determine the extent to which its Developmental Studies Program (DSP) was meeting stated goals and to assess the predictive reliability of the screening tests used to place incoming students in DSP courses. The study involved: (1) an assessment of the need for the DSP program as evidenced by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age, Community Colleges
