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Mark Duffy; Kri Burkander; Molly Pileggi – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
As community colleges and systems move away from developmental education and encourage students to enroll in introductory, college-level coursework to complete their math and English requirements, it is critical to provide students with additional academic supports to help them succeed. One such model is the corequisite course, a model that offers…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Prerequisites, Required Courses, Academic Support Services
Megan Austin; Paco Martorell; Trey Miller; Lindsay Daugherty – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
An increasing body of robust evidence concludes that corequisite remediation in math and English is a cost-effective alternative to traditional developmental education, offering improved immediate course progression and potentially better persistence and completion. This is the first study to disentangle the impacts of the two main elements of the…
Descriptors: Remedial Mathematics, College Mathematics, Academic Support Services, Required Courses
Jennifer Darling-Aduana; Carolyn J. Heinrich; Jeremy Noonan; Jialing Wu; Kathryn Enriquez – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Online credit recovery (OCR) courses are the most common means through which students retake courses required for high school graduation. Yet a growing body of research has raised concerns regarding student learning in these courses, with low quality assessments posited as one contributing factor. To address this concern, we reviewed every…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Required Courses, Repetition, Credits
Florence Xiaotao Ran; Hojung Lee – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
The landscape of developmental education has experienced significant shifts over the last decade nationwide, as more than 20 states and higher education systems have transitioned from the traditional prerequisite model to corequisite remediation. Drawing on administrative data from Tennessee community colleges from 2010 to 2020, this study…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Remedial Programs, Remedial Instruction, Program Effectiveness