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ERIC Number: ED631962
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023-May
Pages: 17
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
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Maximizing Calculus Completion for Students Seeking the Business Administration Degree. Multiple Measures Assessment Project
RP Group
AB 1705 requires colleges to validate their math placement policies and associated enrollment practices to ensure that students begin in coursework that gives them the best chance of completing the initial transfer-level math requirements for their academic goal. If students are required to enroll in prerequisite coursework prior to the entry-transfer-level math course for their program, colleges must provide evidence that the student is highly unlikely to succeed in the program's entry-transfer-level course without the prerequisite and that the prerequisite course improves the probability that students complete the program's initial math requirements. This report focuses on the largest known example of a non-STEM degree program that will be a prerequisite validation focus for many colleges, the associate degree in business administration. College catalogs for 2021-2022 showed that 109 colleges offer this degree with calculus as an entry-transfer-level math requirement at 97 colleges. Forty-four colleges offer Business Calculus but require completion of a transfer-level prerequisite, 2 such as college algebra, trigonometry, or precalculus, prior to the calculus course. These transfer-level prerequisites do not satisfy a requirement for the Business Administration degree and therefore require validation under AB 1705.
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: RP Group; California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office
Identifiers - Location: California
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