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Michaels, Christopher; Liu, Leping – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2020
Career and Technical Education (CTE) is a popular trend in education due to the increased demand from American citizens to include CTE opportunities in schools along with federal funding to build new CTE programs and improve existing ones. Schools are tasked to improve student achievement. Testing performance is a central process to demonstrate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Differences, High School Graduates, Vocational Education
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Sherron Benson McKendall; Alan McKendall; Ann Chester – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2019
Historically, African American and other underserved students encounter academic challenges in pursuit of a college degree--one of which is their performance on standardized tests. This paper analyzes College Grade Point Averages (CGPAs), ACT Composite (ACTC), and SAT Total (SATT) scores of students who participated in the Health Sciences and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, African American Students, Disproportionate Representation, Racial Differences
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Dame, L.; Aryal, B.; Huq, A.; Prat-Resina, X. – PRIMUS, 2019
Students entering health sciences programs may face challenges on their road to successful completion and possible entry to medical school in the area of preparedness in quantitative skills. At our institution, faculty analyzed evidence of these challenges including performance on the ACT Math Test, an in-house math placement test and quantitative…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Algebra
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Schutte, Audra F. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2016
Anatomy courses frequently serve as prerequisites or requirements for health sciences programs. Due to the challenging nature of anatomy, each semester there are students remediating the course (enrolled in the course for a second time), attempting to earn a grade competitive for admissions into a program of study. In this retrospective study,…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Undergraduate Study, Health Sciences, Remedial Instruction