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Direct linkJill Feldman; Atsushi Miyaoka; Matthew Finster; Jennifer Flynn; Tara Dunderdale – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background. Placement in developmental education in college is associated with negative effects on credits earned, course achievement, and degree attainment (Valentine, Konstantopoulos, & Goldrick-Rab, 2017) and requires substantial investments with costs to students and institutions estimated at $1.3 and $7 billion (Ganga, Mazzariello &…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Mathematics Education, Curriculum Development, Statistics
Download full textWaycaster, Pansy – Inquiry, 2019
Virginia Highlands Community College (VHCC) implemented MTH 155 -- Statistical Reasoning Co-Requisite -- in the spring semester of 2018. MTH 155 replaced MTH 146 on VHCC's campus. Prerequisites for this course are the first five developmental MTE modules. The intended co-requisite audience for this new course consists of students having…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Mathematics, Remedial Mathematics, Required Courses
Brathwaite, Jessica; Fay, Maggie P.; Moussa, Adnan – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020
In recent years, there has been a growing recognition that the traditional system of college mathematics remediation that relies on high-stakes placement tests and prerequisite, multi-level course sequences is associated with lowered chances of students completing developmental requirements and increased rates of student attrition. This…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Remedial Mathematics, Minority Group Students, At Risk Students
Beth Ann Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative research study considered three academic factors, seven student-level variables, and four success measures across ten years of academic data related to undergraduate remedial mathematics beginning with the 2009-2010 academic year and ending with the 2018-2019 academic year. Secondary data was used to determine if there was a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Curriculum Development, Developmental Studies Programs
Peer reviewedGarofalo, Joe – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1988
Discusses issues related to the subject/topic content of developmental mathematics programs. Argues that such programs should teach as much preprobability and statistics as they do precalculus, and that less time be spent by students simplifying and operating with rational algebraic expressions and other process-oriented mathematical equations.…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Developmental Studies Programs, Mathematical Applications
Miller, Loretta Diane – 1980
Conducted during the 1979-80 school year, this study gathered statistical information as to the success of the developmental mathematics program at Arkansas State University (ASU). The investigation focused on a comparison between Foundation Mathematics students who took Basic Mathematics as a follow-up course and pupils who enrolled in Basic…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Mathematics, Curriculum Development, Developmental Studies Programs
New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces. – 1985
Research findings on college instruction and basic skills deficiencies are discussed in 12 papers from the first Regional Conference on University Teaching. Titles and authors are as follows: "Basic Skills: Dealing with Deficiencies" (Susanne D. Roueche, with responses by Gary B. Donart, Betty Harris, and James Nordyke); "Is Higher Education an…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Beginning Teachers, Chemistry, College Instruction
Palagi, Robert G. – 1993
The Testing and Assessment Department of Dawson Technical Institute (Illinois) determined that approximately 25-30 percent of the students taking the entrance Test of Adult Basic Education do not meet the academic level required to start a training program. A competency-based adult reading and math program was developed, and the decision was made…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills
