Resumen de Integrating study skills and problem solving into remedial mathematics
Jonathan Cornick, G. Michael Guy, Ian Beckford
Students at a large urban community college enrolled in seven classes of an experimental remedial algebra programme, which integrated study skills instruction and collaborative problem solving. A control group of seven classes was taught in a traditional lecture format without study skills instruction. Student performance in the course was measured by a common 25-question multiple-choice exit exam. After controllig for cognitive and affective differences among students (N= 233), when all other variables were held constant, students in the experimental classes answered two more question out of 25 correctly than studdents in the control group classes. The results suggest problem solving and study skills are potential areas for further improvement in learning.
