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Bird, Katherine; Oppland-Cordell, Sarah; Hibdon, Joseph – Learning Assistance Review, 2016
This paper describes the development, results, and future directions of the mathematics component of the EMERGE Summer Program at Northeastern Illinois University. Initiated summer 2014, EMERGE offered English and mathematics sessions for incoming freshmen. The mathematics session aimed to strengthen participants' mathematical foundations,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Summer Programs
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Pain, Karen D. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
The primary purpose of the study was to explore the potential impact of voluntary remediation on success in gateway credit courses (ENC1101 and MAT1033) and on minority and low-income students in Florida. Mean grades and proportions of successful students were compared based on remediation policies and students' voluntary completion of a…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Minority Group Students, Low Income Groups, Comparative Analysis
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Urbina-Lilback, Ruth N. – Mathematics Teacher, 2016
The statistics about community college developmental math level and completion rates can seem disheartening, especially for those who work with these students day-to-day and know their life stories. When it comes to teaching her students, the author chooses not to focus on the statistics. Instead, she pays attention to their varied career goals…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges
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Acosta, Diane; North, Teresa Lynn; Avella, John – Current Issues in Education, 2016
This study considered whether delivery modality, student GPA, or time since high school affected whether 290 students who had completed a developmental math series as a community college were able to successfully complete college-level math. The data used in the study was comprised of a 4-year period historical student data from Odessa College…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Grade Point Average, Teaching Methods, High School Graduates
Ku, James Yu-Fan – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Obtaining a degree from a community college could be the opportunity for students to advance their education or career. Nevertheless, nearly two-thirds of first-time community college students in the U.S. were required to take developmental mathematics courses. The problem was that approximately three-fourth of those students did not successfully…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Motivation, Mathematics Achievement
Valentine, Jeffrey C.; Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Goldrick-Rab, Sara – Review of Educational Research, 2017
This article reports a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies that use regression discontinuity to examine the effects of placement into developmental education. Results suggest that placement into developmental education is associated with effects that are negative, statistically significant, and substantively large for three outcomes:…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Developmental Studies Programs, Student Placement, Outcomes of Education
Dwyer, Lori Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Student attrition has been a significant challenge facing higher education for decades and is particularly pronounced within community colleges. Specifically, first-time postsecondary students only experienced a 59.3 percent retention rate between Fall 2013 and Fall 2014; at two-year colleges, less than half (46.9 percent) of students were…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Early Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Staves, Derek R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to investigate the lived experiences of community college students who had taken developmental courses and were later able to achieve academic success. The participants of this study were community college students who tested into and had taken two developmental courses during their…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Qualitative Research, Phenomenology
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Skinner, Amy D. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
This research examined the relationship between placement in a learning support college program and subsequent academic outcomes. The sample consisted of 275 entering freshmen students who were enrolled in the Learning Support reading courses in the fall of 2005. Data were collected from the Gordon College Office of Institutional Research. The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Placement, Two Year College Students, College Freshmen
Acevedo-Gil, Nancy; Santos, Ryan E.; Solórzano, Daniel G. – American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, 2014
This policy brief highlights the trajectories of Latina/o students who test into developmental coursework at California community colleges and brings attention to the obstacles created by these courses. The authors use quantitative data from the Basic Skills Progress Cohort Tracking Tool (Progress Tracker) from the California Community Colleges…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Developmental Studies Programs
Le, Cecilia; Rogers, Kimberly R.; Santos, Janet – Jobs for the Future, 2011
Nearly 60 percent of incoming community college students are unprepared for college-level work and must take at least one pre-college, "developmental" course, usually in math or English, before enrolling in any credit-bearing classes toward a degree. Within developmental education, students are most likely to need help with mathematics,…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Technical Institutes, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs
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Wathington, Heather D.; Pretlow, Joshua; Mitchell, Claire – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2011
Learning communities, a small cohort of students enrolled together in two or more linked courses, have become a popular intervention to help underprepared students succeed in college. Though learning communities abound in practice, the key structural feature of a learning community--the cohort--may not be fully understood. Authors posit that a…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Community Colleges, Group Dynamics, Student Experience
Ho, Mary; Sanchez, George – Metropolitan Universities, 2018
The equity lens evaluates institutional barriers that prevent students of color from gaining access to resources for college success (Bensimon, 2005). The first-generation college students at the University of Southern California are 16% of the total student body and students of color comprise two-thirds of this population. Since 2008, how to…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Research Universities, Barriers, Institutional Characteristics
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van Rijk, Yvonne; de Mey, Langha; de Haan, Dorian; van Oers, Bert; Volman, Monique – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
The appropriateness of innovative educational concepts for students from a low socioeconomic status (SES) or ethnic minority background is sometimes called into question. Disadvantaged students are supposed to benefit more from traditional approaches with Programmatic Instruction (PI). We examined Developmental Education (DE), an innovative…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students
Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation, Iowa Department of Education, 2018
The Iowa Department of Education collects information on developmental education (Dev. Ed.) from Iowa's 15 community colleges on an annual basis. Dev. Ed. courses are offered in mathematics, reading, writing, English as a Second Language (ESL), and in other subject areas such as financial literacy and skill building. These credits do not count…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Programs, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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