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Cunningham, Alice W.; Dias, Olen; Angulo, Nieves – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2011
This article analyzes the findings from an 18-section experiment studying the effect of homework-completion tutoring on community college students' remedial mathematics performance. The experiment involved 529 students registered for two remedial math courses: math skills and algebra. For each course, the experiment studied nine sections: three…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Homework, Computer Uses in Education, Tutoring
Hodara, Michelle – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
For developmental education students, rates of developmental math course completion and persistence into required college-level math courses are particularly low. This literature review examines the evidence base on one potential means for improving the course completion and learning outcomes of developmental mathematics students: reforming…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Metacognition, Educational Change, Teaching Methods
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Dabbagh, Nada; Beattie, Mark – Advances in Engineering Education, 2010
Skill shortages in the area of computer network troubleshooting are becoming increasingly acute. According to research sponsored by Cisco's Learning Institute, the demand for professionals with computer networking skills in the United States and Canada will outpace the supply of workers with those skills by an average of eight percent per year…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Literacy
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Teets, Donald – AMATYC Review, 2008
This article shows how to use six parameters describing the International Space Station's orbit to predict when and in what part of the sky observers can look for the station as it passes over their location. The method requires only a good background in trigonometry and some familiarity with elementary vector and matrix operations. An included…
Descriptors: Space Exploration, Familiarity, Spreadsheets, College Mathematics