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Guy, G. Michael; Cornick, Jonathan; Holt, Robert J.; Russell, Andrew S. H. – Journal of Developmental Education, 2015
After many years of extremely low success rates, a radical new design of the first semester arithmetic remedial course was implemented and studied. Students at a large urban community college could take a traditional semester-long traditional lecture-based remedial arithmetic course or a new accelerated 4-week 20-hour problem-solving based…
Descriptors: Remedial Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs, Arithmetic, Problem Solving
Rivera, Natalie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This action research study, set in a community college in the southwestern United States, was designed to investigate the effects of implementing cooperative learning strategies in a developmental mathematics course. Introductory algebra was formerly taught in a lecture based format, and as such regularly had a low course completion rate. To…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Two Year College Students, Action Research, Teaching Methods