Referral, enrollment, and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges
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This article analyzed the patterns and determinants of student progression through sequences of developmental education starting from initial referral and found that fewer than one half of the students who are referred to remediation actually complete the entire sequence to which they are referred.About:
This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 2010-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 881 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Remedial education & Referral.read more
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Table 9: Summary Characteristics of Achieving the Dream Students 
Table 3: Student Progression Among Those Referred to Developmental Education at Achieving the Dream Colleges 
Table 8: Developmental Math Progression Among NELS Students 
Table 2: Developmental Course Offerings and Student Referrals of Achieving the Dream Colleges 
Table 10: Odds Ratios Estimated from Ordered Logit Regressions for Achieving the Dream Students 
Table 6: Demographic Characteristics of Achieving the Dream and NELS Students
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Mindsets That Promote Resilience: When Students Believe That Personal Characteristics Can Be Developed
David S. Yeager,Carol S. Dweck +1 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that students who believe that intellectual abilities are qualities that can be developed (as opposed to qualities that are fixed) tend to show higher achievement across challenging school transitions and greater course completion rates in challenging math courses.
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Challenge and opportunity: rethinking the role and function of developmental education in community college
TL;DR: This article provided a national context about how students progress in community colleges across the country, including data about students who take developmental education courses, how they move through the developmental course sequence, the obstacles they face when completing their intended course of study, and programs and practices that appear to help students meet their goals.
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Performance Gaps Between Online and Face-to-Face Courses: Differences Across Types of Students and Academic Subject Areas
Di Xu,Shanna Smith Jaggars +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the performance gap between online and face-to-face courses and how the size of that gap differs across student subgroups and academic subject areas.
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Getting Ideas into Action: Building Networked Improvement Communities in Education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the social organization of networked communities aimed at systematic learning from practice to improve it, and illustrate the core set of structuring agents necessary to form such networked improvement communities.
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Does Remediation Work for All Students? How the Effects of Postsecondary Remedial and Developmental Courses Vary by Level of Academic Preparation:
TL;DR: The authors examined the impact of remedial and developmental courses on college students with varying levels of academic preparedness, thus focusing on a wider range of students than previous studies and found that remediation has negative effects for students on the margin of needing one developmental course.
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Limited-Dependent and Qualitative Variables in Econometrics
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How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research. Volume 2.
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How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research
TL;DR: The second volume of Pascarella and Terenzini's 1991 award-winning review of the research on the impacts of college on students is presented in this paper, where the authors review their earlier findings and synthesize what has been learned since 1990 about college's influences on students' learning.
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