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Helping underprepared students find success in college level mathematics continues to be an issue of great significance in higher education. This is especially true for students in developmental mathematics courses which usually have some the highest levels of failure and non-completion of any such developmental courses. This thesis describes the steps the University of Toledo Department of Mathematics and Statistics took to begin to address this problem. We created a hybrid entry level and credit-bearing math course and partnered it with a co-requisite math study skills course. A post-course survey helps to paint a good picture of the type of students enrolled in the courses. In the survey results, students enrolled in the math study skills courses recognized and acknowledged the important contribution that course had on their success. The main finding of this study is that students who took the math study skills class seriously were able to bridge the gap in their unpreparedness compared to other students taking the same entry level course but not enrolled in the co-requisite math study skills course. Using a general linear regression model our data showed that students caught up, receiving similar and even a slightly higher grade in their entry level math course. |
