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Maggie P. Fay; Julia Raufman; Andrea Lopez Salazar; Selena Cho; Farzana Matin; Elizabeth Kopko – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2024
In the fall of 2019, the City University of New York (CUNY) Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) provided colleges with updated guidance for designing and delivering evidence-based corequisite courses and set a timeline for the phaseout of traditional, standalone remediation by fall 2022. This CAPR report describes findings from research exploring the…
Descriptors: Prerequisites, Required Courses, Prior Learning, Scaling
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Abdel-Salam G. Abdel-Salam; Radwa Ismail; Mohamed Rhouma; Amal Elatawneh; Khalifa Al Hazaa; Michael H. Romanowski – SAGE Open, 2023
The study aimed to investigate students' final grades in a linked course or chain course to determine any effect on students' academic performance in their next linked course. Courses with high D, F, and W grades were selected with their subsequent linked courses to form a chain so that each chain consisted of two courses or more. More…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Academic Achievement, Grades (Scholastic)
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Strawbridge, Tripp; Soneson, Dan; Griffith, Carter – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
The present study analyzes the effects of two variables on the proficiency development of 907 university students of Spanish and French: years of high school experience; and level of initial placement into university language study. A 3-year grant-funded project administered ACTFL proficiency tests in reading, listening, and speaking to students…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Herman, William E. – Online Submission, 2010
Nearly 100 students were given a Pre-Test in psychology on the first day of class without warning in order to assess their knowledge of basic course content derived from the prerequisites of the course (PSYC-100 Introduction to Psychology or PSYC-220 Child Development) and other life experiences. This was intended as a low-stakes testing…
Descriptors: College Students, Introductory Courses, Psychology, Memory
Davis, Mary M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The American Association of Colleges and Universities reports that over 50% of the students entering colleges and universities are academically under prepared; that is, according to Miller and Murray (2005), students "lack basic skills in at least one of the three fundamental areas of reading, writing, and mathematics" (paragraph 4). Furthermore,…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Grade Point Average, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
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Woodward, George; Galagedera, Don – International Journal of Educational Development, 2006
A model incorporating prerequisite mathematics performance and other variables deemed to be associated with learning elementary statistics (ES) is developed. The relationship between ES performance and the explanatory variables is well represented by the logistics form. Aptitude, effort and motivation are the only significant explanatory variables…
Descriptors: Statistics, College Students, Prerequisites, Required Courses
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San Diego Community Coll. District, CA. Research and Planning. – 2002
This study by the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD), California, aims to determine the impact of prerequisite enforcement on retention and course completion rates in English and math courses among underrepresented students. The report analyzed a subset of the more than 300 prerequisite-enforced courses offered by the SDCCD. The course…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Community Colleges, Educationally Disadvantaged