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Jennifer Swann Jacobson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Eighth-grade students who are placed into Algebra 1 but fail end-of-course exams may experience lowered grade point averages (GPAs) and loss of motivation for math or avoid taking advanced mathematics courses in high school. Middle-achieving students present challenges in terms of mathematics placement. Self-efficacy theory and locus of control…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Algebra, Mathematics Achievement
Murphy, Norman L. – 1974
The purpose of this investigation was to identify those demographic and programmatic (independent) variables which were the best predictors of student success in a remedial program, as measured by four different criterion (dependent) variables: grade point average, persistence, increase in internality in locus of control, and increase in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Data Analysis, Demography