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Direct linkJustina M. Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to implement a redesign of developmental education at Delaware Technical Community College and to evaluate its effectiveness in improving overall First Time Ever in College (FTEIC) student success through gateway English and math completion, fall-to-fall persistence, and narrowing or closing of opportunity gaps…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Academic Achievement
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Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2021
Colleges attempt to identify students who are underprepared for college-level courses and then place them into developmental courses intended to help them succeed. These courses are usually offered on a non-credit basis and do not count toward graduation. As a result, students enrolled in developmental education can take longer to graduate than…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Intervention, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
Colleges attempt to identify students who are underprepared for college-level courses and then place them into developmental courses intended to help them succeed. These courses are usually offered on a non-credit basis and do not count toward graduation. As a result, students enrolled in developmental education can take longer to graduate than…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Intervention, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
Colleges attempt to identify students who are underprepared for college-level courses and then place them into developmental courses intended to help them succeed. These courses are usually offered on a non-credit basis and do not count toward graduation. As a result, students enrolled in developmental education can take longer to graduate than…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Intervention, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
McGruder, Nancy C. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of the current study was to determine if three community colleges were serving developmental education students in an effective and cost-efficient manner, make observations about the developmental education demographics, and conclude if Senate Bill 162 (SB 162) increased the percentage of college ready students who participated in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, State Legislation, Educational Change, Developmental Studies Programs
Wilson-Mighty, Roseta – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The current study examined differences in student performance and retention rates for those who completed remedial reading or remedial writing courses and those who did not in a private university in South Florida. International students also were compared to non-international students on academic performance and retention rates. The conceptual…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Private Colleges, College Freshmen, Remedial Reading
Clery, Sue; Topper, Amy – Achieving the Dream, 2007
Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, this issue looks at changes in cohort composition. The analysis addresses the changing composition of the Achieving the Dream student cohorts from 2002 to 2005. The data show that at Achieving the Dream colleges, the percentage of Hispanic students increased over the four cohorts…
Descriptors: Intervention, Grants, Educational Trends, Hispanic American Students
