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Direct linkPei Hu; Christine G. Mokher; Kai Zhao; Toby J. Park-Gaghan; Shouping Hu – SAGE Open, 2023
State policymakers in the United States have in recent years experimented with new initiatives to change the procedures used by public institutions to assess and assign academically underprepared students to non-credit developmental education (or remedial) courses. This study explores whether the most recent developmental education reform in…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Policy, State Policy, Educational Change
Download full textNorthern Virginia Community Coll., Annandale. Office of Institutional Research. – 2001
This document discusses the enrollment of Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) students in developmental English, developmental math, and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses. Students examined were first-time students, transfer students, continuing students, and returning students. Enrollment statistics and demographic data from fall…
Descriptors: Age, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, English
Peer reviewedJohnson, Laurence F. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1996
Discusses a study examining the relationship between student academic performance in an exit-level, developmental mathematics course and subsequent academic performance in a college-level mathematics course. Finds that developmental course performance and student age were significantly and positively related to academic success, while length of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, College Mathematics, Community Colleges
Greer, Linda R. – 1980
Results of three studies conducted at Clayton Junior College, Georgia, concerning differences between traditional and nontraditional age students relative to academic success and persistence are discussed. In the first two studies discriminant analyses were used to determine the influence of age in relation to other entering characteristics on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Age, College Students
Gainous, Fred; And Others – 1985
After discussing the role of Kansas's community colleges in providing remedial/developmental education, this report presents data on the characteristics of students enrolled in remedial/developmental courses. Highlighted findings include the following: (1) 8% of all students enrolled in the community college system were enrolled in…
Descriptors: Age, College Role, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs
Reap, Margaret C.; Covington, Helen C. – 1980
A study was conducted at North Harris County College to determine the extent to which its Developmental Studies Program (DSP) was meeting stated goals and to assess the predictive reliability of the screening tests used to place incoming students in DSP courses. The study involved: (1) an assessment of the need for the DSP program as evidenced by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age, Community Colleges
