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Direct linkBahr, Peter Riley; Fagioli, Loris; Hayward, Craig; Hetts, John; Lamoree, Daniel; Newell, Mallory Angeli; Nguyen, Alyssa; Sorey, Ken; Willett, Terrence – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This paper discusses the result of a statewide research effort in California to improve the accuracy of student placement in math and English in the California Community College system. We apply decision tree methods to high school and college transcript data to identify key measures of high school achievement that predict success in ten levels of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Placement, College Mathematics
Download full textMekonnen, Adugna; Reznichenko, Nataliya – Online Submission, 2008
This qualitative case study considers factors such as difficulty of understanding mathematics and poor mathematics practicing strategy under academic factors and lack of family support under social factors as those that contribute to the failure. Many students entering community college have deficiencies in mathematics background and are required…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Academic Failure
Barham, Wilton A. – 1992
This study attempted to identify indicators of success for developmental education students, particularly underprepared African American students enrolled at a predominantly Black university. The sample for the study included 922 students who responded to an 8-item questionnaire, which consisted of both traditional and non-traditional variables.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Colleges, Black Students, College Freshmen
Fox, Richard N. – 1985
Retention and attrition after the freshman year among disadvantaged students at a senior college of the City University of New York were studied. A conceptual model of Tinto (1975) was applied to a group of students participating in the Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK) program, which provided remedial and/or developmental…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Basic Skills, College Students
Dwinell, Patricia L. – 1985
This study investigated the relationship of standardized test scores and locally developed test scores to course placement and academic success in a developmental program. The sample consisted of 281 students who matriculated in the Division of Developmental Studies at a southern university. Eligible students for enrollment in Developmental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Basic Skills, Developmental Studies Programs
Dodd, William M. – 1982
A major concern for those in higher education is whether the instruments they use for screening students are valid and predictive. Of particular interest is whether a grammar test, used in many institutions to screen students for developmental English, and a reading comprehension test, used to screen students for developmental reading, truly…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Developmental Studies Programs
