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The Effect Of Instruction On The Study Behaviors And Academic Achievement Of Community College Students, Zoraya Maria Cuesta
The Effect Of Instruction On The Study Behaviors And Academic Achievement Of Community College Students, Zoraya Maria Cuesta
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The purpose of this study was twofold. It was designed to determine (a) the efficacy of an intervention designed to increase the frequencies of appropriate study behaviors on the part of community college students who were preparing for academic mathematics activities and (b) whether any increase in appropriate study behavior frequency was accompanied by increased academic achievement in college preparatory mathematics classes.
A total of 126 Miami Dade College students participated in this study. Two developmental (remedial) mathematics classes were randomly assigned as the experimental group, and two others were assigned as the control group. All students also took a …