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ANALYSIS OF THE ABILITY OF SELECTED VARIABLES TO PREDICT THE PROBABILITY AND DEGREE OF SUCCESS IN A COMMUNITY COLLEGE INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA COURSE

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1978
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether it was possible to construct a profile for an individual which would predict whether he would succeed in a community college intermediate algebra course, and whether it was possible to predict the grade the individual would receive in the course. The problem generating the study was the high dropout rate for the intermediate algebra course offered at the institution of the researcher, Broward Community College, Broward County, Florida. The set of eight possible predictors used in the study were mathematical aptitude score, mathematical achievement score, reading comprehension score, age at the beginning of the term, elapsed time since last successful completion of a mathematics course, number of credit hours being carried. sex of the individual and hours of employment per week. The major conclusions reached were that the classification functions developed demonstrated the ability to: 1) Predict a grade exactly with a probability of at least 0.34. 2) Predict a grade within one grade level with a probability of at least 0.65. 3) Identify at least 60 percent of failures at the initiation of the course.
Title: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ABILITY OF SELECTED VARIABLES TO PREDICT THE PROBABILITY AND DEGREE OF SUCCESS IN A COMMUNITY COLLEGE INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA COURSE.
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Name(s): MEDUSKY, JOHN WILLIAM.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1978
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 139 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The purpose of this study was to determine whether it was possible to construct a profile for an individual which would predict whether he would succeed in a community college intermediate algebra course, and whether it was possible to predict the grade the individual would receive in the course. The problem generating the study was the high dropout rate for the intermediate algebra course offered at the institution of the researcher, Broward Community College, Broward County, Florida. The set of eight possible predictors used in the study were mathematical aptitude score, mathematical achievement score, reading comprehension score, age at the beginning of the term, elapsed time since last successful completion of a mathematics course, number of credit hours being carried. sex of the individual and hours of employment per week. The major conclusions reached were that the classification functions developed demonstrated the ability to: 1) Predict a grade exactly with a probability of at least 0.34. 2) Predict a grade within one grade level with a probability of at least 0.65. 3) Identify at least 60 percent of failures at the initiation of the course.
Identifier: 11714 (digitool), FADT11714 (IID), fau:8646 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1978.
College of Education
Subject(s): Mathematical ability--Testing
Algebra--Study and teaching--Florida
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