Sentences with phrase «elementary algebra class»

After four semesters in college, 60 percent had, compared to 37 percent of students placed in the remedial elementary algebra class and 33 percent of students who took remedial elementary algebra with workshops (Figure 3).

Panitz uses this activity to introduce solving equations in elementary algebra classes.

In addition, all remedial elementary algebra classes in the experiment covered standard topics and used a common final exam and final grade rubric.

Not exact matches

By the end of Spring 2015, three semesters after the experiment's end, just 37 percent of remedial elementary algebra students had passed a college - level quantitative class, which is required for graduation, compared to 60 percent of students placed directly into statistics.

In the fall of 2013, the researchers randomly assigned 907 freshman students assessed as needing math remediation into one of three groups: traditional remedial elementary algebra; the same algebra course with an additional two - hour weekly workshop; or a college - level statistics class with an additional two - hour weekly workshop.

Incoming students assessed as needing remediation were randomly assigned to one of three course types: traditional remedial elementary algebra; the same algebra course with an additional two - hour weekly workshop; or a college - level statistics class with an additional two - hour weekly workshop.

More than one - third of students placed in remedial elementary algebra — with or without workshops — still had not passed that class by the end of their second year of college.

Some entering students who ordinarily would have been assigned to a remedial elementary - algebra class were placed instead in a college - level statistics course and provided with extra academic support.

Any participant who did not pass his or her class had to re-enroll in traditional remedial elementary algebra and pass it before taking any college - level quantitative courses.