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Gramlich, Stephen Peter – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Open door admissions at community colleges bring returning adults, first timers, low achievers, disabled persons, and immigrants. Passing and retention rates for remedial and non-developmental math courses can be comparatively inadequate (LAVC, 2005; CCPRDC, 2000; SBCC, 2004; Seybert & Soltz, 1992; Waycaster, 2002). Mathematics achievement…
Descriptors: Homework, Textbooks, Community Colleges, Persistence
Grassl, Rebecca – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Mathematics competency continues to limit the success of many students and prevents their completion of a postsecondary degree, which ultimately prevents access to education, jobs, and upward social mobility. Furthermore, many postsecondary institutions admit students who do not meet the institution's mathematics proficiency requirements and then…
Descriptors: African American Students, Self Efficacy, Incentives, Learning Strategies