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Cafarella, Brian – Community College Enterprise, 2023
Throughout the 21st century, the discipline of developmental education has come under fire for low success rates and has created a great deal of controversy. This has especially been the case for developmental math. Over the years, there have been many initiatives to improve student success and completion in developmental math. Some have succeeded…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Nonmajors, STEM Education, Mathematics Instruction
Pamela A. Shortt – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined the effect on pass rates from one community college after removing developmental English prerequisites on non-English credit-bearing courses in Fall 2020. This mixed methods quasi-experimental research evaluated whether a developmental English prerequisite is necessary for completion of credit-bearing courses and identified…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, English Instruction, Remedial Instruction, Prerequisites
Anita Moore-Bohannon – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if students' participation in the ALP co-requisite developmental English program relates to the likelihood of passing gateway college-level English. Data was collected to allow for analysis of gateway college-level English passing probability for all students who participated in gateway…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Remedial Instruction, Grading, Probability
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S. Büchele; S. Berndt; A. Felix – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Most studies on remedial courses are based on their mandatory attendance. However, changes may have occurred in the attendance policy of developmental math courses since the state of Florida decided to overcome obligatory math remediation for unprepared students. Consequently, researchers have recently started focusing on voluntary math remedial…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Remedial Instruction, Student Participation, Foreign Countries
Eatman-Skinner, Pamela V. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Post-Traditional Remedial Learner in higher education is a student constituency that has historically been "Hidden in Plain Sight" and strikingly absent from substantive discussions that foreground their lived experiences, relevance, and success in post-secondary education. Though physically present on campus and numerically…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Remedial Programs, Community Colleges, Community College Students
Joyce A. Campbell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed in this study was that many students in DE have a decrease in academic success and, as a result, never make it to college-level courses nor complete a program and earn a degree, leading to a decrease in academic success. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to provide insight on historically black colleges…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Remedial Programs, Academic Achievement
David Young – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of the Repeated Readings intervention at improving reading fluency and reading comprehension. However, research on the effectiveness of fluency interventions focuses on young children, with limited research on the effects on college-age populations. The primary purpose of the current study was…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Developmental Studies Programs
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McGee, Barrie S.; Williams, Jeanine L.; Armstrong, Sonya L.; Holschuh, Jodi P. – Journal of Developmental Education, 2021
"Remedial Trap." "Bridge to Nowhere." "Completion Divide." Such language used to describe the field of Developmental Education (DE), especially by those outside the field, is undeniably deficit oriented. In this manuscript, we initiate a dialog that critiques such portrayals of DE, particularly those that appear in…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Instruction, Educational Policy, Educational Change
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Toby J. Park-Gaghan; Christine Mokher; Taylor Burtch; Morgan Danyi – Grantee Submission, 2024
Florida State University researchers spent the last year collecting and analyzing data on corequisite developmental education (DE) models in Texas as part of a four-year study that received a $1.5M grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. This study was proposed in response to Texas House Bill (HB) 2223, which…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Instruction, Required Courses, Models
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D'Antonio, Monica – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Developmental courses in community colleges often leave students unprepared, demeaned, and uninspired. These gatekeeper courses need reform, especially in terms of curriculum and instruction. One framework -- Dr. Gholdy Muhammed's Historically Responsive Literacy (HRL) -- could be useful for developmental courses and students. HRL is a teaching…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Culturally Relevant Education, Community College Students
John F. Hamman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this mixed method study is to determine the effectiveness of the corequisite model on collegiate mathematics developmental education. Corequisite models are designed to allow students who place into pre-college level courses to complete the prerequisite material and college-level coursework simultaneously in their first semester.…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Program Effectiveness, College Students, Remedial Mathematics
Samarokova, Irina V.; Solovyeva, Natalia S.; Kozhushkova, Natalia V.; Korobeynikov, Yevgenii V.; Golubeva, ?lesya A.; Chernykh, Oksana P. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
This article is devoted to the organization of developmental education of students of higher educational institutions. Based on works by I. A. Zimniaia, T. I. Iliin, V. V. Kraevskii, G. M. Kodzhaspirova, I. Ia. Lerner, I. F. Kharlamov and other researchers, the authors clarified the concept of "developmental education of university…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, Values, Cognitive Development
Antony Wormack – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study focused on several important aspects of the implementation of Public Act 12-40 on remedial instruction within a four-year University setting. The implementation of the law has been minimally studied as it pertains to student impact. There are seventeen units of the Connecticut State University System so the decision to limit the scope…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Universities, Remedial Instruction
Andrea Lisa Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Although nearly half of community college students require some type of remediation, less than one-third of the students who start in developmental education graduate within eight years (Park, Tandberg, Hu, & Hankerson, 2016). As such, there is great uncertainty regarding the effectiveness of developmental education (Ari et al., 2016; Bailey…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Elective Courses, Remedial Instruction, Program Effectiveness
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
This protocol guides the review of research that informs the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) intervention reports in the Developmental Education topic area. The protocol is used in conjunction with the "WWC Procedures and Standards Handbooks (version 4.0)." Not all students enrolled in college are prepared to do college-level work in all…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Remedial Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs, College Students
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