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Sheila D. Bennett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examined how adult learners who took developmental mathematics in a community college and passed the courses, viewed their self-efficacy and the roles they felt self-efficacy had on their successful completion of mathematics. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 adult learners in two U.S. community colleges.…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community College Students, Nontraditional Students, Success
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Soumya Mishra; Elise Swanson; Elif Yucel; Federick Ngo; Tatiana Melguizo; Cheryl Ching – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Beginning in 2019, California community colleges were required to use multiple measures to determine students' placement into initial math courses. Community colleges also created structured BSTEM and liberal arts (SLAM) math pathways beginning in 2017. This contemporaneous implementation could reproduce racialized stratification in math…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Community Colleges, College Mathematics
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Haitham Alkhateeb – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2025
This study used the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) to assess the motivation and learning strategies of students in a self-paced developmental mathematics class. A total of 194 undergraduate students participated in this study. Descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients, and regression analysis were conducted to assess…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learning Strategies, Developmental Studies Programs, Mathematics Instruction
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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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Susana H. Hernández; Lyle McKinney; Andrea Burridge; Catherine O'Brien – AERA Open, 2024
Research on developmental education reform has given surprisingly limited attention to what happens inside the classroom between faculty and students. Our qualitative study used interview data from 20 faculty and 20 students in corequisite math and English courses at one of the nation's largest and most racially diverse community college systems.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Equal Education, Developmental Studies Programs
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Kristen P. Kremer; Carlton J. Fong; Agustín J. García – Community College Review, 2024
Objective: Developmental education provides postsecondary students requisite skills to take credit-bearing coursework. Yet, racial disparities exist in which students are most likely to be placed into developmental education. The present study investigates how multiple measures of students' mathematics background ameliorate racial disparities in…
Descriptors: Role Theory, Remedial Mathematics, College Mathematics, Community Colleges