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Martinez, Charles Leo – 1973
The main purpose of this study was the development and evaluation of a unit of study for underachieving sophomores enrolled in basic-vocational mathematics. Students in this category were identified through the guidance office and by considering scores on the California Achievement Test and the Differential Aptitude Test. These students were…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Doctoral Dissertations, Instruction, Low Achievement
Download full textSherman, Joel F. – 1975
A computer assisted mathematics review unit was designed for students enrolled in a community college physical science survey course, who had severe mathematical deficiences in their backgrounds. The CAI program (written in BASIC) covered multiplication and division of numbers written in scientific notation. Thirty-five students who scored zero…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum, Doctoral Dissertations
Schalago-Schirm, Cynthia – 1995
Eighth-grade students in New Jersey take the Early Warning Test (EWT), which involves reading, writing, and mathematics. Students with EWT scores below the state level of competency take a remedial mathematics course that provides students with computer-assisted instruction (2 days per week) as well as regular classroom instruction (3 days per…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Courseware
Forte, Edmund J. – 1975
This dissertation investigates the effect of an individualized remedial reading and mathematics program (the Philadelphia Checkpoint Center Program) on the self concept of low achieving third-grade children. In the program, children received individualized, diagnostic and prescriptive instruction for 40 minutes daily in groups of 15 or fewer. In…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Objectives, Grade 3
Riggle, G. Thomas, II – 1975
Since 1970, the developmental mathematics program at the Metropolitan Campus of Cuyahoga Community College (Ohio) has consisted of three courses of individualized instruction. A pretest is given to determine proper course placement and all modular units are accompanied by regular lectures. This practicum was designed to determine the attitudes,…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Developmental Programs
Moten, Charlyne H. – 1978
After the 1975 political upheaval in Indochina, many Indochinese refugees settled in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, area. A number of them enrolled in Harrisburg Area Community College between January, 1976, and December, 1977, primarily in developmental courses because of their lack of formal training in English. A study was conducted to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Acculturation, Community Colleges
