MyLab Management contributes to student success
Pearson | September 3, 2021 in Meaningful Outcomes
by Pearson
How MyLab Management contributes to student success
In Fall 2018, Professor Irene Wilder from State University of New York (SUNY) at Jefferson, Watertown, NY worked with Pearson to discover whether MyLab™ Management for Modern Management: Concepts and Skills by Certo and Certo impacted student success in her Principles of Management course.
Researchers found that:
- Students earning higher MyLab assignment scores also earned higher average quiz and exam scores.
- Students who passed all or most of the MyLab quizzes earned higher average exam scores.
- 92% of student survey respondents agreed that MyLab Mini Sims were a real-world application of the chapter material that allowed them to apply course concepts to actual business challenges.
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Why did Professor Irene Wilder adopt MyLab Management?
In Spring 2018, Wilder and her colleagues invited all the major publishers to campus to present their digital homework and assessment programs in an effort to make a single, department-wide decision where all instructors and course formats would use the same materials.
The variety of exercises in MyLab offers instructors flexibility in creating course assignments and also addresses the diverse learning styles of their students. A unanimous decision led to MyLab Management being adopted for Fall 2018 classes.
How was MyLab Management implemented?
Principles of Management is a three-credit, entry-level course enrolling approximately 200 students per semester, offered both face to face and online. Students use MyLab for understanding content, homework assignments, and assessments. MyLab assignments in Wilder’s course include Dynamic Study Modules (DSM), simulations, Personal Inventory Assessments, and chapter quizzes. MyLab assignments account for 22% of the total course grade.
- 92% of student survey respondents agreed that the simulations were a different and engaging way of working with the chapter contents.
Were students successful over the semester?
Students were placed into two groups based on the average MyLab score (DSMs and Mini Sims) of 80%.
- Students who completed all MyLab assignments earned average quiz scores 25 percentage points higher than students who skipped at least one assignment.
- Students who completed all MyLab assignments earned average exam scores 21 percentage points higher than students who skipped at least one assignment.
- Students who failed two or fewer MyLab quizzes earned an average exam score of 88%.
- Students who failed more than two MyLab quizzes earned an average exam score of 60%.
Did students like using MyLab Management?
Responses from the Fall 2018 end-of-semester survey of Wilder’s students indicate that the majority of responding students recognize the value of MyLab Management.
- 100% of respondents agreed MyLab homework positively impacted their quiz and exam scores.
- 100% of respondents agreed that their understanding of the course material increased as a result of using MyLab.
When asked what the benefits of MyLab were, one student responded:
“Dynamic Study Modules were a good tool to help learn, they helped me to remember the content in each chapter.”
Conclusion
MyLab homework helped students identify their learning gaps prior to completing assessments, corroborated by the data for this course, which indicated that students completing all MyLab assignments earned higher quiz and exam scores.
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