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Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
Florida's developmental education reform has benefitted most students directly impacted by the reform and has helped to reduce existing achievement gaps by race/ethnicity, English Language Learner status, and academic preparation in short-term outcomes like college course-taking and credit accumulation. Even though the reform was not specifically…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
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Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Research in Higher Education, 2021
Florida passed legislation in 2013 that exempted many students from developmental education, and required colleges to implement new instructional modalities for optional developmental education courses. This paper uses an economic model of remediation to examine how changes in college course taking before and after the reform altered costs to…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Equal Education, Costs, Developmental Studies Programs
Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Grantee Submission, 2020
Florida passed legislation in 2013 that exempted many students from developmental education, and required colleges to implement new instructional modalities for optional developmental education courses. This paper uses an economic model of remediation to examine how changes in college course taking before and after the reform altered costs to…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Equal Education, Costs, Developmental Studies Programs
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Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: Underprepared students at community colleges are often assigned to a sequence of developmental education courses that can substantially delay, or even halt, their progress to degree completion. In 2014, Florida implemented a comprehensive reform under Senate Bill (SB) 1720 that allowed the majority of incoming students to…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Instruction, Educational Change
Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Grantee Submission, 2020
Background/Context: Underprepared students at community colleges are often assigned to a sequence of developmental education courses that can substantially delay, or even halt, their progress to degree completion. In 2014, Florida implemented a comprehensive reform under Senate Bill (SB) 1720 that allowed the majority of incoming students to…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, College Credits, Community Colleges
Park, Toby J.; Woods, Chenoa S.; Hu, Shouping; Bertrand Jones, Tamara; Cig, Oguzcan; Tandberg, David – Grantee Submission, 2018
Background: Developmental education (DE) has been critiqued because of its high cost, the inconclusive evidence as to its effectiveness, and the overrepresentation of underrepresented minority students required to take it. Because Black and Hispanic students are more often referred to developmental courses and may require more levels of…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Instruction, Achievement Gap, Introductory Courses