How High School Coursework Predicts Introductory College-Level Course Success
| Autor: | Chenoa S. Woods, Shouping Hu, Tamara Betrand Jones, Toby Park |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Education reform
College English Medical education business.industry education 05 social sciences 050301 education Placement testing Standardized test Academic achievement Academic advising Education Coursework 0502 economics and business ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION 050207 economics Advanced Placement business Psychology 0503 education |
| Zdroj: | Community College Review. 46:176-196 |
| ISSN: | 1940-2325 0091-5521 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0091552118759419 |
| Popis: | Objective: In recent years, developmental education (DE) reform has led to a restructuring of the placement process, redesigning of course instructional modalities, or implementing student support services to supplement developmental coursework. In Florida, recent legislative changes allowed students to opt out of placement testing and enroll directly in college-level courses regardless of academic ability. The purpose of this study is to understand how students’ high school transcript information can be used in the academic advising process when students are no longer required to take standardized placement tests. Method: We used a combination of high school courses from statewide student-level data and conducted logistic regression analyses to understand how these courses help predict success in English Composition 1 and Intermediate Algebra. We also developed student profiles and presented predicted probabilities to illustrate how students with different combinations of high school coursework were pred... |
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