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Book Synopsis Remedial Coursework in Postsecondary Education by : Alexandria Walton Radford
Download or read book Remedial Coursework in Postsecondary Education written by Alexandria Walton Radford and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently the state of Missouri, through the Missouri Department of Higher Education, has started to work toward the goal of having 60 percent of state residents hold some type of postsecondary credential. This goal aligns with similar initiatives in other states as well as President Obama's objective for the nation. In order to reach this ambitious target, improvements in postsecondary education will need to be made in a number of areas. One such area is remedial education. Remedial education (sometimes also described as developmental education) refers to courses taught within postsecondary education that cover content below the college level. Students who require remediation upon entering postsecondary institutions may face adverse consequences. First, these students may be less likely to complete their course of study and more likely to stop out or drop out. Second, it may take these students longer, both in terms of the number of courses taken and number of years enrolled, to complete their studies. It is therefore in the best interests of Missouri that it address and improve remedial education at the postsecondary level. To this end, this report examines remedial education from several angles. It first investigates the extent of remedial coursetaking in postsecondary education both nationally and in Missouri. It then explores remedial students' persistence and attainment compared with the persistence and attainment of nonremedial students. The report concludes by describing the various approaches to remedial education that have been adopted throughout the country. A table, Research Evaluations of Remedial Education Interventions, is appended. (Contains 7 figures, 1 table, and 4 footnotes.).
Book Synopsis Remedial Education at Degree-granting Postsecondary Institutions in Fall 2000 by : Basmat Parsad
Download or read book Remedial Education at Degree-granting Postsecondary Institutions in Fall 2000 written by Basmat Parsad and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides national estimates on the prevalence and characteristics of remedial courses and enrollments in degree-granting postsecondary institutions in fall 2000 and changes from fall 1995.
Book Synopsis Promises to Keep by : California Postsecondary Education Commission
Download or read book Promises to Keep written by California Postsecondary Education Commission and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The State of College Access and Completion by : Laura W. Perna
Download or read book The State of College Access and Completion written by Laura W. Perna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite decades of substantial investments by the federal government, state governments, colleges and universities, and private foundations, students from low-income families as well as racial and ethnic minority groups continue to have substantially lower levels of postsecondary educational attainment than individuals from other groups. The State of College Access and Completion draws together leading researchers nationwide to summarize the state of college access and success and to provide recommendations for how institutional leaders and policymakers can effectively improve the entire spectrum of college access and completion. Springboarding from a seminar series organized by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, chapter authors explore what is known and not known from existing research about how to improve student success. This much-needed book calls explicit attention to the state of college access and success not only for traditional college-age students, but also for the substantial and growing number of "nontraditional" students. Describing trends in various outcomes along the pathway from college access to completion, this volume documents persisting gaps in outcomes based on students’ demographic characteristics and offers recommendations for strategies to raise student attainment. Graduate students, scholars, and researchers in higher education will find The State of College Access and Completion to be an important and timely resource.
Book Synopsis The Effects of Remedial Coursework and Reduced Credit Load on Persistence in College for Students with Learning Disabilities by : Joseph Paul Baggot
Download or read book The Effects of Remedial Coursework and Reduced Credit Load on Persistence in College for Students with Learning Disabilities written by Joseph Paul Baggot and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Progress Report on Segmental Responses to the Commission's Recommendations Regarding Remedial Education by : California Postsecondary Education Commission
Download or read book Progress Report on Segmental Responses to the Commission's Recommendations Regarding Remedial Education written by California Postsecondary Education Commission and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Investigation of School Factors Related to Enrollment in Remedial Writing at Postsecondary Institutions in Montana by : Dustin Harry Shipman
Download or read book An Investigation of School Factors Related to Enrollment in Remedial Writing at Postsecondary Institutions in Montana written by Dustin Harry Shipman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remedial postsecondary coursework, while ubiquitous, is a high cost means for students to become prepared to complete the rigors of postsecondary education. Remedial coursework represents a void in time of students' lives when they are neither true college students nor enrolled members of a high school class. The onus of preparing Montana students for successful transitions to postsecondary education is on the shoulders of the school systems from which they graduate. Ultimately, paving the way for successful postsecondary transitions involves a number of different variables. The key facets of student achievement are embodied within school leaders, teachers and students. In this study, enrollment data gathered from the Montana University System was analyzed and a significant relationship was established between the variables of student ethnicity and socioeconomic status with enrollment in remedial writing. 243 English teachers in the state of Montana responded to items on the Support For Professional Development Questionnaire. The responses from this questionnaire revealed a high level of positive perception for administrator support for professional development among Montana English teachers. Lastly, this study highlighted that high school English teachers who participate in the MUS professional development activities express a greater understanding of the expected writing requirements for postsecondary institutions as compared to high school English teachers who do not participate in the MUS professional development activities.
Book Synopsis Segmental Actions Regarding Remedial Education by :
Download or read book Segmental Actions Regarding Remedial Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Academic Retention and Achievement of Postsecondary Students Requiring Remediation at a Four-year Institution by : Victor Bernard Olivares
Download or read book Academic Retention and Achievement of Postsecondary Students Requiring Remediation at a Four-year Institution written by Victor Bernard Olivares and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Economic Inequality and Higher Education by : Stacy Dickert-Conlin
Download or read book Economic Inequality and Higher Education written by Stacy Dickert-Conlin and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast disparities in college attendance and graduation rates between students from different class backgrounds is a growing social concern. Economic Inequality and Higher Education investigates the connection between income inequality and unequal access to higher education, and proposes solutions that the state and federal governments and schools themselves can undertake to make college accessible to students from all backgrounds. Economic Inequality and Higher Education convenes experts from the fields of education, economics, and public policy to assess the barriers that prevent low-income students from completing college. For many students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, the challenge isn't getting into college, but getting out with a degree. Helping this group will require improving the quality of education in the community colleges and lower-tier public universities they are most likely to attend. Documenting the extensive disjuncture between the content of state-mandated high school testing and college placement exams, Michael Kirst calls for greater alignment between K-12 and college education. Amanda Pallais and Sarah Turner examine barriers to access at elite universities for low-income students—including tuition costs, lack of information, and poor high school records—as well as recent initiatives to increase socioeconomic diversity at private and public universities. Top private universities have increased the level and transparency of financial aid, while elite public universities have focused on outreach, mentoring, and counseling, and both sets of reforms show signs of success. Ron Ehrenberg notes that financial aid policies in both public and private universities have recently shifted towards merit-based aid, away from the need-based aid that is most helpful to low-income students. Ehrenberg calls on government policy makers to create incentives for colleges to increase their representation of low-income students. Higher education is often vaunted as the primary engine of upward mobility. Instead, as inequality in America rises, colleges may be reproducing income disparities from one generation to the next. Economic Inequality and Higher Education illuminates this worrisome trend and suggests reforms that educational institutions and the government must implement to make the dream of a college degree a reality for all motivated students.
Book Synopsis Promoting Gateway Course Success by : Bruce Vandal
Download or read book Promoting Gateway Course Success written by Bruce Vandal and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With research indicating that upwards of 50 percent of all new entering postsecondary education students are placed into remedial education and that students placed into remedial education are less likely to earn a postsecondary credential, policymakers and postsecondary leaders alike have committed themselves to transforming remedial education in their states. New research revealing the underlying causes of low success rates for remedial education students has led to promising new models that have resulted in dramatic increases in student success. At the heart of the new research and improved practice is the realization that placing students into multiƯ-semester, non-credit remedial course sequences as a pre-requisite to enrollment in college-level gateway courses results in most students leaking out of the system and never making it to a college gateway course. In addition, research has also revealed that assessment and placement practices at many colleges result in many college-Ưready students being placed into remedial courses. Consequently, innovators have found great success with models that place significantly more students directly into college-level courses and provide them additional academic support as a corequisite. With corequisite models showing student success rates in college-level gateway courses that are two or three times better than traditional models, postsecondary leaders and state policymakers are moving aggressively to implement corequisite remediation reform at scale. There is a growing sense that the adoption of corequisite models can result in significant increases in the percent of students placed into remedial education who complete gateway math and English courses in one academic year. Considerations for policymakers and postsecondary leaders considering corequisite support as a new solution are introduced.
Download or read book College Remediation written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Impact of Postsecondary Remediation Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach by : Juan Carlos Calcagno
Download or read book The Impact of Postsecondary Remediation Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach written by Juan Carlos Calcagno and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remedial or developmental courses are the most common instruments used to assist postsecondary students who are not ready for college-level coursework. However, despite its important role in higher education and substantial costs, there is little rigorous evidence on the effectiveness of college remediation on the outcomes of students. This study uses a detailed dataset to identify the causal effect of remediation on the outcomes of nearly 100,000 college students in Florida. Using a Regression Discontinuity design, we provide causal estimates while also investigating possible endogenous sorting around the policy cutoff. The results suggest math and reading remedial courses have mixed benefits. Being assigned to remediation appears to increase persistence to the second year and the total number of credits completed for students on the margin of passing out of the requirement, but it does not increase the completion of college-level credits or eventual degree completion. Taken together, the results suggest that remediation might promote early persistence in college, but it does not necessarily help students on the margin of passing the placement cutoff make long-term progress toward earning a degree.
Book Synopsis Implementing Effective Policies for Remedial and Developmental Education by : Jan M. Ignash
Download or read book Implementing Effective Policies for Remedial and Developmental Education written by Jan M. Ignash and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1997 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894, forty percent of college freshmen enrolled in pre-collegiate programs to prepare for regular college coursework. In Fall 1995, twenty-nine percent of entering freshmen enrolled in at least one remedial course. The debate over the need for, and appropriateness of, remedial/developmental education at the postsecondary level has spanned a century. The upcoming 1998 Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act has added fuel to the debate. Legislators, educators, and the general public are asking questions and raising accountability issues. Who needs remedial/developmental education? Why does the need for it appear to be increasing? How much does it cost? Who should pay for it? Are remedial/developmental programs effective? Who should provide it? Legislators and the public are upset over the perception that they are paying twice for the same education—once in high school and once again in college. Educators are concerned about the potential devaluation of higher education through the provision of large amounts of remedial/developmental education. And students, too, are unhappy with the time and expense necessary to develop English and math skills that they should have learned in high school. Each chapter of this volume addresses a specific policy question involved in the debate over remedial/developmental education and uses national and state data, as well as information from case studies of individual institutions, to provide insights into effective approaches to remedial/developmental education. This is the one hundredth issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Community Colleges. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals section.
Book Synopsis The Toolbox Revisited by : Clifford Adelman
Download or read book The Toolbox Revisited written by Clifford Adelman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Toolbox Revisited is a data essay that follows a nationally representative cohort of students from high school into postsecondary education, and asks what aspects of their formal schooling contribute to completing a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s. The universe of students is confined to those who attended a four-year college at any time, thus including students who started out in other types of institutions, particularly community colleges.
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Book Synopsis Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-06-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skilled technical occupationsâ€"defined as occupations that require a high level of knowledge in a technical domain but do not require a bachelor's degree for entryâ€"are a key component of the U.S. economy. In response to globalization and advances in science and technology, American firms are demanding workers with greater proficiency in literacy and numeracy, as well as strong interpersonal, technical, and problem-solving skills. However, employer surveys and industry and government reports have raised concerns that the nation may not have an adequate supply of skilled technical workers to achieve its competitiveness and economic growth objectives. In response to the broader need for policy information and advice, Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce examines the coverage, effectiveness, flexibility, and coordination of the policies and various programs that prepare Americans for skilled technical jobs. This report provides action-oriented recommendations for improving the American system of technical education, training, and certification.
Book Synopsis Developmental Education by : Hunter R. Boylan
Download or read book Developmental Education written by Hunter R. Boylan and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developmental Education: Readings on Its Past, Present, and Future offers twenty-two selections on historical efforts to serve underprepared students, on the state of developmental education today, and on innovative practices and possible directions for the future. Compiled by Hunter R. Boylan, Director of the National Center for Developmental Education (NCDE) and a professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University, and Barbara S. Bonham, a professor in the Department of Leadership and Educational Studies at Appalachian State University, each chapter also includes introductions and questions for discussion and reflection.
