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ERIC ED475157: Are Prerequisite Courses Necessary for Success in Ad... |
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The effect of enrollment in prerequisite courses on |
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success in advanced courses was examined in a study of a |
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sample of students who completed a business cooperative |
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experiences program between 1994-1995 and 2001-2002. Of |
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the 163 students in the sample, 80 completed the |
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prerequisite courses (Technology Lab I and II) before the |
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advanced course, and 83 did not take the prerequisite |
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course. Ex post facto research was used to compare the |
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following factors: students' attendance/days missed; |
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employer and program coordinator evaluations of students' |
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performance; and students' term 1 and term 2 grades. A |
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two-tailed Pearson correlation test was used to identify |
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relationships between individual factors. No relationship |
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was found between students' completion of the |
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prerequisite courses and their success in the advanced |
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course. According to the instructor coordinator, some of |
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the more successful students in the advanced program were |
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the ones who had not taken the prerequisite courses. |
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However, those students had excellent skills, work |
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ethics, and attendance. (The bibliography lists four |
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references. The following items are appended: tables of |
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statistical correlations; descriptions of the study |
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courses; ERIC database entries for two studies on the |
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effects of prerequisites; and the information on |
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prerequisites that is provided to students at Santa Rosa |
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Junior College, California.) (MN) |
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Date Published: 2016-01-17 01:00:50 |
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Identifier: ERIC_ED475157 |
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Item Size: 27760866 |
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Language: english |
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Media Type: texts |
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