ERIC Number: EJ1313629
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 34
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-1546
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Accelerating College Remediation: Examining the Effects of Math Course Redesign on Student Academic Success
Journal of Higher Education, v92 n6 p927-960 2021
American colleges are redesigning the ways in which they offer remedial courses, including mainstreaming students into college-level courses and making greater use of learning-technology to tailor the curriculum to students' specific academic needs. Exploiting a statewide cutoff on a remediation placement exam along with data on student outcomes prior to and after a course redesign effort in Tennessee, I estimate the effects of three different institutional redesign efforts (acceleration, modularization, and corequisite math remediation) on students' short, moderate, and long-term academic success. I find that students exposed to accelerated and corequisite developmental math courses had more positive outcomes than their peers exposed to traditional developmental math courses, but those in modularized courses did not. The magnitude of the estimated effect differs by the type of math redesign and the level of academic need of the students. These results provide insight into the extent to which the particular instruction and delivery methods of developmental courses affect performance in college-level math, credit accumulation, and persistence to degree.
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Remedial Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs, College Instruction, Remedial Mathematics, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Curriculum Design, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Student Placement, Enrollment, College Entrance Examinations, Mathematics Tests, Placement Tests, Scores
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Tennessee
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: ACT Assessment
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