The Development of a Learning Gap Between Students With Strong Prerequisite Skills and Students With Weak Prerequisite Skills

by: Nathan B. Terry, Kimberly de La Harpe, and Frederick Kontur

This article investigates how mastery of prerequisite course material impacts student learning in follow-on courses. To measure the importance of prerequisite skills, we compare the exam scores of students with a GPA of 3.0 or better in their multidisciplinary prerequisite classes to the exam scores of students with a GPA of less than 3.0 in their interdisciplinary prerequisite courses.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 1/1/2016Stock # jcst16_045_03_34Volume 045Issue 03

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