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      <journal-title>Information Technology Journal</journal-title>

      <issn pub-type="ppub">1812-5638</issn>

      <issn pub-type="epub">1812-5646</issn>

      <publisher>

        <publisher-name>Asian Network for Scientific Information</publisher-name>

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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3923/itj.2014.2567.2573</article-id>


      <title-group>

        <article-title><![CDATA[An Exploration of the Effectiveness of Mathematics Learning in Junior High School Students Using the HLM Growth Model]]></article-title>

      </title-group>


      <contrib-group>

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          <name name-style="western">

            <surname>Liang</surname>

            <given-names>Tsang-Lang</given-names>

          </name>


          <name name-style="western">

            <surname>Hsu</surname>

            <given-names>Shih-Li</given-names>

          </name>


          <name name-style="western">

            <surname>Huang</surname>

            <given-names>Chou-Hai</given-names>

          </name>


          <name name-style="western">

            <surname>Cheng</surname>

            <given-names>Yi-Chia</given-names>

          </name>


        </contrib>

      </contrib-group>


      <pub-date pub-type="collection">




        <month>12</month>


        <year>2014</year>

      </pub-date>


      <volume>13</volume>

      <issue>16</issue>


      <abstract><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>]]></abstract>


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