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Year: 2014 | Volume: 13 | Issue: 16 | Page No.: 2567-2573
Research Article

An Exploration of the Effectiveness of Mathematics Learning in Junior High School Students Using the HLM Growth Model

Tsang-Lang Liang
Department of Industrial Education and Technology,National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan, Republic of China
Shih-Li Hsu
Department of Industrial Education and Technology,National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan, Republic of China
Chou-Hai Huang
Department of Industrial Education and Technology,National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan, Republic of China
Yi-Chia Cheng
Department of Industrial Education and Technology,National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan, Republic of China
The three main objectives of this study are to explore the growth locus of vocational business school students in their review of math classes, the moderating effect of the growth locus of math class review among different departments and the moderating effect of the growth locus of mass class review among different gender. For this study, a series of math review training classes was held for high school seniors. The students, who participated, went through 9 months of review classes and 5 mock exams. A total of 192 vocational business school students participated in the study, after unsuitable samples were eliminated, there was a total of 191 samples. For this study, repeated measures t-testing and the HLM growth model were used to perform data analysis. Results revealed that math review classes can dramatically improve the math performance of vocational students, the math review class training displayed a U-curve that started out decreasing but eventual increased and there were no moderating effects between different departments or different genders when it came to the training of math review classes.
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