A Comparison of Teaching Machines and Programed Texts in the Teaching of Algebra I

Abstract

The study was conducted at Duquesne University in an attempt to predict graduate quality point averages on the basis of a number of supposedly valid predictive criteria, This university draws most of its students on a local and regional basis.

The major objective was to predict an applicant student's quality point average at the end of his graduate program in education. An attempt was made to demonstrate the relative importance of different variables, and to try to build a regression equation that could serve as the basis for future predictive studies.