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Westerfield, Mary Ann K. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This research was undertaken to determine if the redesigned modular delivery method for developmental mathematics produced a higher sequence completion rate within a year as compared to the traditional lecture style delivery. Re-enrollment rates from fall to spring for the modularized delivery system were compared to the traditional delivery…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Delivery Systems
Erickson, Kristyanna – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The developmental sequence of mathematics courses in most 2-year and 4-year colleges is designed to prepare students to succeed in college-level math courses. That is, students must complete this sequence in order to progress to courses such as statistics, college algebra, precalculus, calculus, and differential equations. Research on the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Developmental Programs, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
Huang, Kai-Yi Clark – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to measure the difference in achievement between those students enrolled in a beginning-level, university Algebra course in southeastern Idaho university the spring semester of 2012 who received an Algebra Exponents and Polynomials instructional unit in a traditional face-to-face setting and those students who…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, College Students, College Mathematics, Algebra
Duckworth, Allison Hardin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Cooperative learning has been sufficiently studied to be accepted as an effective method of education. Student reception of cooperative learning, and therefore the degree of its success in a given situation, will depend on the mode of delivery. New technology for delivering courses totally online challenges many aspects of traditional education,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, Learning Modules
Risner, Mary E. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The need to increase US competitiveness in the world economy is a driving factor in the recent push to internationalize university campuses across the country. Technical and subject area expertise are no longer sufficient to succeed in the 21st-century global workplace. Intercultural competence is becoming more valued as part of the desired…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Intercultural Programs, Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Competence