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Walstad, William B.; Wagner, Jamie – Journal of Economic Education, 2023
The authors of this study investigate the likely influence of required or voluntary financial education on the saving behaviors of U.S. adults. They compare the results for three groups defined by different life experiences with financial education (required, voluntary, and none). Probit models estimate the effects of financial education on four…
Descriptors: Money Management, Financial Education, Adults, Behavior
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Opsal, Tara; Windsong, Elena Ariel; Pedroni, Laurence – Teaching Sociology, 2023
One challenge sociology departments face is conveying to undergraduates the relevance of a sociology degree for future careers. This challenge is more notable for first-generation and working-class students who research shows have more limited access to mentors. Here we present a department-level mentoring initiative designed to address systemic…
Descriptors: Required Courses, First Generation College Students, Mentors, Sociology
Mark T. Rooze – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation exams the use of a weighted 5.0-scale high school grade point average (HS GPA), the South Carolina Uniform Grading Policy Grade Point Average (SC UGP GPA), as the basis for a Multiple Measures placement system in English unique to Florence-Darlington Technical College (FDTC). FDTC's service area lies in the so-called…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Grade Point Average, Disadvantaged Schools, Secondary Education
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Zhang, Hao; Chinokul, Sumalee – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Motivation and academic self-efficacy influence learners' second language acquisition and individual differences. This study aimed to address a research gap among these variables with the Thai high school students studying Chinese as a foreign language by exploring the level of students' motivation and academic self-efficacy and investigating the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Self Efficacy, Individual Differences
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Kmail, Zaher; Rabideau, Michelle – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Contribution: This article compares student success via different pathways in which students take mathematics courses required for engineering degrees. Background: Mathematics courses are an integral part of engineering curriculum. Many institutions require or recommend the order in which students take Calculus II, Multivariable Calculus,…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Sequential Approach, Course Selection (Students), Mathematics Education
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Alan Chant; Christina M. Kraemer-Chant – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Colleges throughout the United States typically expect their students to take at least one course in the sciences to fulfill liberal studies curriculum requirements. For nonscience majors, the choice of science class can include introductory chemistry, introductory biology, and astronomy, among others. Based upon interactions both in and out of…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Science Education, Learning Strategies, College Science
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Pamela Burdman – Numeracy, 2024
This keynote address explores the history and role of college math requirements with a focus on ensuring math courses serve to expand students' horizons, rather than serve as gatekeepers. It discusses the advent of general education math courses, which brought more students into math departments, which ultimately contributed to broadening the…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, College Students, Problem Solving
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Rochelle Gregory; Kristen Weinzapfel – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2024
Like many of its contemporaries across the state, North Central Texas College's (NCTC) English and math faculty were committed to the promise of corequisite education and its students' success as outlined by the Dana Center, but they also understood the obstacles to implementing, assessing, and scaling its corequisite courses. NCTC's English and…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Mathematics Teachers, English Teachers, College Faculty
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Sara Heaser – Journal of Basic Writing, 2024
During the COVID-19 pandemic, institutional parameters shifted unexpectedly, which influenced how writing instructors took up and taught their courses. This article reflects on an instructor's experience teaching a corequisite support course during the pandemic, utilizing the concept of liminality, as basic writing scholarship draws on various…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Teaching Experience, COVID-19
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Drew Atchison; Margaret Clements; Jordan Rickles; Iliana Brodziak de los Reyes; Jessica Heppen – Educational Policy, 2024
This study compares the costs of a school-based online credit recovery model to more traditional teacher-directed credit recovery using rigorous cost analysis methods. Findings indicate that differences in the comprehensive costs for online and teacher-directed credit recovery classes are small. However, cost differences across the two models of…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Credits, Cost Effectiveness, Repetition
Megan Austin; Paco Martorell; Trey Miller; Lindsay Daugherty – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
An increasing body of robust evidence concludes that corequisite remediation in math and English is a cost-effective alternative to traditional developmental education, offering improved immediate course progression and potentially better persistence and completion. This is the first study to disentangle the impacts of the two main elements of the…
Descriptors: Remedial Mathematics, College Mathematics, Academic Support Services, Required Courses
Douglass, Courtney L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Information scholars, educators and librarians have grappled with defining the concept of information literacy for decades--at least as far back as the 1970's--with the most prominent common thread being as a set of skills. In pedagogy and practice, what higher education currently calls information literacy is delivered more akin to research…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Identification, Information Science Education, Undergraduate Students
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Hurdle, Zachariah Benton; Mogilski, Wiktor – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2022
We conducted a quantitative analysis to determine how the prerequisite path of students taking calculus I impacts their grade performance. We began by investigating the performance of students that took college algebra and trigonometry versus those that took pre-calculus ahead of their credit-bearing calculus I attempt. We concluded that there was…
Descriptors: College Students, Calculus, Prerequisites, Required Courses
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Roberts, Philip; Downes, Natalie; Reid, Jo-Anne – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
The preparation of teachers for rural schools has been a significant focus of research for many decades. In this paper we update previous reports of the extent of Initial Teacher Education courses that prepare teachers for rural schools in Australia. We found that despite significant and continued calls for rural teacher education, there are still…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation
Dee William Bailey – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study is to determine the impact of prerequisite course type on student final quantitative research methods final grade after controlling for mathematics anxiety, statistics anxiety, and task presentation/performance. The additional purpose is to determine if there are significant…
Descriptors: Prerequisites, Required Courses, Mathematics Anxiety, Statistics
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