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Direct linkHarnly, Jessica J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
More than two-thirds of first-year community college students require remediation in reading and/or mathematics before they can take college-level courses. Among these underprepared students who take the recommended developmental mathematics courses to become college-ready, less than one-third successfully complete these courses, posing a barrier…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Remedial Instruction, Social Cognition, Mathematics Achievement
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Download full textGiannoulas, Angelos; Stampoltzis, Aglaia – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2021
Mathematics is a constituent of the education of Engineering students. This paper reports on a study investigating the attitudes and perceptions towards mathematics of first year Engineering students. The sample consisted of 145 freshmen (80 men and 65 women) from one Greek university, derived from three Engineering departments (Mechanical,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Engineering Education, Mathematics Anxiety
Rodriguez, David B. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Employing a non-experimental, ex-post facto design, the study examined the relationship of student demographic information and internal characteristics identified from the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) to student persistence, grade point average, and academic success. Cognitive Learning Theory (CLT), which focuses on the internal…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Correlation, Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement
Healy, Megan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
With a large global, national, state, and local drive for post-secondary credentials, higher education institutes are exploring new retention and graduation strategies to meet the needs of the employers and employees. Many students who are unprepared for college level work will enter a community college to take developmental courses. Developmental…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, College Mathematics, Community Colleges, Academic Persistence
Gafney, Leo – Online Submission, 2010
This report is the based on a 10-year study of the activities developed under a National Science Foundation (NSF) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) grant to a collaborative of institutions from the State University of New York. The goals of LSAMP are to recruit and retain under-represented minority students in the STEM…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Grants, Minority Groups, State Colleges
Lens, Willy; Lacante, Marlies; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Herrera, Dora – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2005
In order to understand and predict students' achievement and persistence at learning activities, many contemporary motivational models consider how much students are motivated for their school work. However, students' achievement and persistence might not only be affected by their amount of study motivation, but also by the motivation to engage in…
Descriptors: Persistence, Leisure Time, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
