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Title
Effectiveness of online community college success courses
Description
The purpose of this action research study was to determine the effectiveness of two online college success courses: CPD 150 (College Success, 3 credits) and CPD 115 (Success Strategies, 1 credit), at Rio Salado College, a Maricopa Community College in Arizona. The goal of these courses is to prepare students to be college-ready by examining college readiness and learning skills. The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire measured students' perceptions of their own college readiness in a pre-test/post-test format. Understanding students' perceptions of their own college readiness is the college's first step in understanding the effectiveness of these courses. Descriptive statistical analysis was used to compare the pre- and post-tests to determine whether the average student scores changed after completion of the college success course. Paired samples t-tests (or repeated-measures test) were conducted on 2 scales consisting of 13 subscales of the MSLQ of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire. Data analysis revealed that students reported that they had better study skills after the course than before completing the course. Particularly, learning strategies, test anxiety, self-efficacy, effort regulation (self-management), control of learning beliefs, study skills, and time and study environment stand out as showing substantial improvement for the students.
Date Created
2012
Contributors
- Abts, Melanie (Author)
- Mcintyre, Lisa (Thesis advisor)
- Hesse, Maria L (Committee member)
- Wukash, Barry (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Community college education
- Education (Higher)
- Educational technology
- college success courses
- community college success courses
- first year experience courses
- online college success courses
- Community colleges--Curricula--United States.
- Community Colleges
- Web-based instruction--Curricula--United States.
- Web-based instruction
- College student orientation--United States.
Resource Type
Extent
x, 153 p
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14549
Statement of Responsibility
by Melanie Abts
Description Source
Viewed on Dec. 11, 2014
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: Ed. D., Arizona State University, 2012
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-122)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Higher and postsecondary education
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- 2021-08-30 01:48:43
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