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Math Sorting: Unintended Consequences of Developmental Education Reforms in Community Colleges
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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
Analyzing Throughput Rate: Enhancing Developmental Math Students' Academic Progress
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Adrian Novio – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Developmental math courses have long been considered a barrier for students (Benken et al., 2015), especially for minority and low-income students, who are enrolled in developmental courses disproportionately to their peers (Chen, 2016). Research has shown that various redesign efforts (e.g., multiple measures placement, corequisite support,…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Academic Achievement, Program Design
The Impact of Immersive Scheduling on Student Learning and Success in an Australian Pathways Program
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Elizabeth Goode; Suzi Syme; Johanna E. Nieuwoudt – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Immersive scheduling engages students in one or two subjects at a time over short teaching periods. While there is incipient evidence that immersive delivery can heighten academic outcomes in undergraduate education, much less is known about its effectiveness in pathways or access programs. This exploratory mixed-methods study investigated how a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Schedules, Scheduling, Academic Achievement
Differentiating Less-Prepared from More-Prepared College Readers
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Daniel P. Feller; John Sabatini; Joseph P. Magliano – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study was conducted to better understand the difficulties faced by underprepared college readers, including those enrolled in Developmental Education (DE) programs. The Reading Systems Framework was used as a theoretical motivation. Participants (n = 258) completed a measure of component reading skills (Study Aid and Reading Assessment, word…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Developmental Studies Programs, Reading Skills, Predictor Variables
The Role of Multiple Measures in Community College Developmental Mathematics
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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
Getting Prepared 2023: Developmental Education Course-Taking of High School Graduates
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Lesley N. Sisaket – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2024
Postsecondary education enrollment and completion disparities exist for Minnesota's Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color (BIPOC) and lower-income students. One outcome measure demonstrating the impact of systemic disparities in K-12 education is a student's level of readiness for college-level courses following high school graduation. Given…
Descriptors: College Enrollment, High School Graduates, Public Schools, Developmental Studies Programs