Improving academic performance and retention among remedial students.

Autor: Rochford, Regina A.
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Zdroj: Community College Enterprise; Fall2004, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p23-36, 14p
Abstrakt: As the number of incoming college freshmen needing remedial education has multiplied in recent years. educators have struggled to prepare these learners for college-level courses and to keep them enrolled in college. While many traditional techniques have been employed, only focus on students' learning styles has increased academic performance and retention. The current article discusses an experiment that compares the use of a learning-style methodology with a traditional classroom approach to prepare remedial writing students at an urban community college for the ACT Writing Sample Assessment test. Results indicate that the learning-style approach significantly increased student achievement, curiosity grade -point-averages and retention rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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