Author: Patricia Ramos-MartinezPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
The number of students at community colleges assessed as underprepared for college-level math continues to grow each year. These students are directed into remedial math courses, even though these courses continue to produce low persistence and completion rates. The purpose of this study was to examine and determine whether students assessed as under-prepared for college-level math experienced significant differences in outcomes depending on whether they enrolled in contextualized versus traditional stand-alone remedial math courses. Using a causal-comparative design, the study examined secondary data from a Midwestern community college. The findings of descriptive and inferential analyses found a significant association between contextualized developmental math courses and student outcomes, compared to traditional stand-alone developmental math courses. These results remained consistent when controlling for developmental math placement scores, gender, and race/ethnicity.
