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Direct linkFoster-Irizarry, Toni – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Some community colleges lack the socioemotional support required to help underprepared students grow into autonomous, college-ready learners (Callahan, 2004; Capt et al., 2014). Black and Latinx students could benefit from the inclusion of positive, emotionally supportive programming that acknowledges their personhood, cultural capital…
Descriptors: Social Experience, Emotional Experience, Student Experience, Community College Students
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Download full textBeamer, Zachary – Inquiry, 2021
In corequisite models of instruction, marginally prepared students are placed directly into college-level coursework, taught with a paired support course. Initial research suggests that such models yield significant improvements in the number of students passing credit-level mathematics when compared to previous models of prerequisite remediation.…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Developmental Studies Programs, College Mathematics, Community Colleges
Spellman, Elaine Sabrina – ProQuest LLC, 2019
North Carolina's community colleges redesigned developmental math programs in 2011. The overall effectiveness of the redesign has not yet been evaluated. A concurrent mixed-methods study was conducted at Mid-Atlantic Community College (MACC) for a formative and summative evaluation of the redesigned program. Mezirow's transformative learning…
Descriptors: Remedial Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs, Program Evaluation, Program Design
Weiss, Michael J.; Headlam, Camielle – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2019
Community colleges are a large sector of postsecondary education. In 2016-2017, the United States had nearly 1,000 public 2-year postsecondary institutions (community colleges), serving almost nine million students, representing 39% of all undergraduates. The majority of entering community college students require developmental (or remedial) math.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Electronic Learning
Cerna, Oscar – MDRC, 2019
Community colleges continue to increase their efforts to better serve students who enter their institutions with limited basic math, reading, or writing skills. In 2015, MDRC partnered with the Texas Coordinating Higher Education Board on a study to examine how colleges implemented state guidelines for students scoring below ninth-grade…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Basic Skills, Skill Development, Mathematics Instruction
Doren, Andrew T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Community colleges have multiple missions and one of them is to provide open access services to those seeking to further their education. Community colleges provide remedial courses in math, reading, and writing because many of their students do not meet entrance requirements in these core subjects. However, the usual developmental education track…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs, Models
