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Hu, Xinye; Hu, Shouping – Research in Higher Education, 2022
Developmental education (DE) reform took place among the 28 Florida College System (FCS) institutions in 2014. In this study, we examine how cohort-based passing rates in college-level English and math courses changed at different colleges for pre- and post-policy period and explore what institutional characteristics were related with various…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, State Legislation
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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
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