New York College Learning Skills Association

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Research and Teaching
in Developmental Education

Volume 19, Issue 1, Fall 2002

Midterm Grade Reports: Are They Effective?
By Vivian Morgan Alley, Middle Tennessee State University

Abstract

Midterm grade reports were researched by a review of literature including practices at other universities and by a statistical study. Twenty sections of Developmental Studies Mathematics at Middle Tennessee State University classes were used for this study. The first hypothesis was that the improvement made in students’ averages from midterm to the final was greater in the experimental group of classes receiving midterm grade reports than in the control group that did not. The second hypothesis was that the pretest/posttest improvement was greater in the experimental group than in the control group. The means of the different groups were compared by 2-sample t-tests to determine if there was a significant difference in the two sets of improvement.