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Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Arrastía-Chisholm, Meagan C.; Pringle, Njeri M. – American Educator, 2021
Academically underprepared postsecondary students make up a large proportion of college campuses. Recent estimates indicate that up to 70 percent of incoming students at two-year community colleges and up to 40 percent of incoming students at four-year colleges enroll in developmental courses. There has been some criticism of the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: College Students, College Readiness, Evidence Based Practice, Developmental Studies Programs
Hodara, Michelle – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
For developmental education students, rates of developmental math course completion and persistence into required college-level math courses are particularly low. This literature review examines the evidence base on one potential means for improving the course completion and learning outcomes of developmental mathematics students: reforming…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Metacognition, Educational Change, Teaching Methods