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Nabors, Amy; Zientek, Linda – Community College Enterprise, 2023
The purpose of this study was to determine faculty members' self-reported use and implementation of good practices in their developmental mathematics classrooms. Participants in this study were full-time or part-time (adjunct) mathematics instructors that taught developmental mathematics courses at two-year colleges. Participants completed a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Remedial Mathematics, Two Year Colleges, College Faculty
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Beamer, Zachary – Community College Enterprise, 2021
Many students enter higher education with poor preparation for college mathematics courses. These students are often placed through high-stakes placement testing into developmental coursework that bear no credit towards graduation, but many students who begin in developmental coursework never succeed in a college-level mathematics course. Recent…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Academic Achievement, Graduation, Remedial Mathematics
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Zientek, Linda; Skidmore, Susan T.; Saxon, D. Patrick; Edmonson, Stacey – Community College Enterprise, 2015
With the omnipresence of technology in society came the inevitable integration into education. This manuscript provides results of a statewide survey of developmental mathematics instructors' technology preferences and priorities across all levels of developmental mathematics courses. The study was part of a larger project designed to explore the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Technology Uses in Education, Preferences, Developmental Programs
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Abraham, Reni A.; Slate, John R.; Saxon, D. Patrick; Barnes, Wally – Community College Enterprise, 2014
In this investigation, we examined the college readiness in math of Texas community college students using archival data from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Data analyzed were the rate of all first-time in college (FTIC) developmental education students who scored below the Texas college readiness standards in math and the rates of…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs
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Zientek, Linda Reichwein; Schneider, Cynthia L.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J. – Community College Enterprise, 2014
Decreasing the number of students placed in developmental mathematics and addressing barriers that hinder student success in such courses are concerns at both the state and national levels. The present study sought to capture 89 developmental mathematics faculty perceptions of factors that contribute to students' placement and hinder student…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Mathematics, Teachers
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Wolfle, James D. – Community College Enterprise, 2012
This ex post facto study examined the fall-to-fall persistence and academic success of students in a medium-sized Virginia community college. The variables of age and ethnicity in combination with whether a student's first mathematics course was developmental were used to examine the effects of each. It was found that neither the interaction of…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Ethnicity, Interaction, White Students