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Direct linkWaschull, Stefanie B. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2018
This chapter explores early impacts from the Florida College system's bold experiment in making placement testing and developmental education optional for most students.
Descriptors: Colleges, Educational Experiments, College Students, Student Placement
Download full textMalbin, Joshua – MDRC, 2016
When they arrive at community colleges or open-enrollment universities, most students take placement exams in English and mathematics to determine whether they are ready for college-level courses. Students with low scores are referred to developmental--remedial--courses. Forty percent of all entering college students and over half of entering…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges, College Students
FISHER, MARGARET B.; MALPASS, LESLIE F. – 1963
THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO DETERMINE WHETHER SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES OCCUR IN MASTERY OF A COLLEGE COURSE LECTURE-DISCUSSION TYPE FOR FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES WHEN STUDENTS USE PROGRAMED MATERIALS OF INSTRUCTION RATHER THAN STANDARD TEXTBOOKS. FOUR STANDARD AND FOUR PROGRAMED SECTIONS WERE USED FOR COMPARATIVE PURPOSES. STUDENTS SELECTED THESE…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Educational Experiments
