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Khan, Bibi Rabia – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether supplemental instruction and online homework can improve student performance and understanding in a first-semester calculus course at a large urban four-year college. The study examined the metacognitive and study skills and posttest scores of students. The study also focused on students' and…
Descriptors: Homework, Undergraduate Students, College Mathematics, Calculus
Koukounas, Susan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether high student accountability and formative assessment affected student motivation, learning and resource management strategies, and achievement in developmental algebra I. The setting was a fifteen-week semester at a community college in suburban New York. Two sections of developmental algebra I…
Descriptors: Accountability, Formative Evaluation, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement
Dawson, Caroline – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A recent trend in the traditional mathematics classroom is the use of online homework systems. Where traditional homework problems are retrieved from a textbook, online homework systems provide problems online and permit students to interact with the system in order to complete homework assignments. Mathematics instructors who use or who wish to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Educational Technology, Homework, College Mathematics
Douglass, Robert Hurey – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Web Based Homework (WBH) effectiveness in increasing learning outcomes in Elementary Algebra students is analyzed. The analysis is accomplished through a comparison of the student final exam scores between students who completed the course using paper and pencil homework (PPH) and those students using web based homework (WBH). The purpose of the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Developmental Programs, College Mathematics, Homework
Birgan, Latrica J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Stakeholders in higher education are addressing the decreasing success rates in college mathematics courses. Success in mathematics courses has been one factor related to students successfully obtaining a college degree, and the primary predictor of success in mathematics is a student's belief in his or her ability to achieve a particular grade in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Homework, Community Colleges
Brewer, David Shane – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study compared the effectiveness, in terms of mathematical achievement and mathematics self-efficacy, of online homework to textbook homework over an entire semester for 145 students enrolled in multiple sections of college algebra at a large community college. A quasi-experimental, posttest design was used to analyze the effect on…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Homework, Textbooks, Self Efficacy