Author: Scotty Glen Houston
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Languages : en
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Remedial education in postsecondary institutions has been a topic of discussion for policymakers and educators for many years. The subject where most of the remediation occurs is mathematics. A population skilled in mathematics is necessary for many of the current job openings, and many more jobs to come, as countless occupations are becoming even more technologically sophisticated. Researchers have determined that upwards of sixty to seventy percent of incoming students in college and universities need math remediation, and factors reanging from family income, race and gender to admissions test scores and grade point average have been shown to influence remedial need, either positively or negatively. The studies presented in this dissertation explore how these factors along with other possible predictors impact remedial mathematics need. A recent release of data from the National Center for Education Statistics called the Beginning Postsecndary Study was analyzed used multiple regression models. Models were run for both male and female students, separately, along with individual models for White students, African American students and Hispanic students. In models related to male and female students, secondary school influences such as high school grade point average, highest mathematics course taken in high school and admissions test scores were of high importance in determining remedial need. Among the three racial groups, the same factors were influential for White students, and only admissions test scores were impactful for African American students and Hispanic students. For male students, African American students were more likely than White students to enroll in remedial math courses. Among female students, both African American and Hispanic students enrolled in moe remedial math courses that White students. The model including all students in the sample showed that secondary school influences were the greatest predictors. Also, African American and Hispanic students were more likely to require remedial courses than White students. .
Race and Gender Differences in the Need for Postsecondary Mathematics Remediation
Author: Scotty Glen Houston
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Languages : en
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Book Description
Remedial education in postsecondary institutions has been a topic of discussion for policymakers and educators for many years. The subject where most of the remediation occurs is mathematics. A population skilled in mathematics is necessary for many of the current job openings, and many more jobs to come, as countless occupations are becoming even more technologically sophisticated. Researchers have determined that upwards of sixty to seventy percent of incoming students in college and universities need math remediation, and factors reanging from family income, race and gender to admissions test scores and grade point average have been shown to influence remedial need, either positively or negatively. The studies presented in this dissertation explore how these factors along with other possible predictors impact remedial mathematics need. A recent release of data from the National Center for Education Statistics called the Beginning Postsecndary Study was analyzed used multiple regression models. Models were run for both male and female students, separately, along with individual models for White students, African American students and Hispanic students. In models related to male and female students, secondary school influences such as high school grade point average, highest mathematics course taken in high school and admissions test scores were of high importance in determining remedial need. Among the three racial groups, the same factors were influential for White students, and only admissions test scores were impactful for African American students and Hispanic students. For male students, African American students were more likely than White students to enroll in remedial math courses. Among female students, both African American and Hispanic students enrolled in moe remedial math courses that White students. The model including all students in the sample showed that secondary school influences were the greatest predictors. Also, African American and Hispanic students were more likely to require remedial courses than White students. .
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Languages : en
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Book Description
Remedial education in postsecondary institutions has been a topic of discussion for policymakers and educators for many years. The subject where most of the remediation occurs is mathematics. A population skilled in mathematics is necessary for many of the current job openings, and many more jobs to come, as countless occupations are becoming even more technologically sophisticated. Researchers have determined that upwards of sixty to seventy percent of incoming students in college and universities need math remediation, and factors reanging from family income, race and gender to admissions test scores and grade point average have been shown to influence remedial need, either positively or negatively. The studies presented in this dissertation explore how these factors along with other possible predictors impact remedial mathematics need. A recent release of data from the National Center for Education Statistics called the Beginning Postsecndary Study was analyzed used multiple regression models. Models were run for both male and female students, separately, along with individual models for White students, African American students and Hispanic students. In models related to male and female students, secondary school influences such as high school grade point average, highest mathematics course taken in high school and admissions test scores were of high importance in determining remedial need. Among the three racial groups, the same factors were influential for White students, and only admissions test scores were impactful for African American students and Hispanic students. For male students, African American students were more likely than White students to enroll in remedial math courses. Among female students, both African American and Hispanic students enrolled in moe remedial math courses that White students. The model including all students in the sample showed that secondary school influences were the greatest predictors. Also, African American and Hispanic students were more likely to require remedial courses than White students. .
The Rough and Rocky Road of Remediation
Author: Peter Riley Bahr
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
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A Critical Race Examination of Four Young Black Men’s Participation in Community College Developmental/remedial Mathematics
Author: Durrell Antonio Jones
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Category : Electronic dissertations
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Counterstory, an analytical tool of Critical Race Theory, was used in this dissertation to foreground the voices of four young Black men completing a non-credit bearing developmental or remedial mathematics (DevRemMath) course at Suburban Community College (SCC). This study presents young Black men's first-person perspectives about the conditions that determined their learning and doing of postsecondary mathematics, which is operationalized in this dissertation as participation. Their narratives further clarify the race-gender dimensions of participation, and the factors that promoted or deterred participation in DevRemMath at SCC. The study offers several implications for advancing racial justice in DevRemMath and postsecondary mathematics learning, which include reframing how faculty and administration respond to the needs of young Black men in planning and delivering DevRemMath instruction, as well as naming the significance of faculty interactions with young Black men to counter barriers to their academic success. The dissertation concludes with recommendations for (re)structuring DevRemMath spaces in order to better strengthen young Black men's participation in the learning and doing of postsecondary mathematics.Keywords: Critical Race Theory (CRT), Counter Storytelling, Master narrative, Developmental mathematics, Remedial mathematics, Black males, Community College.
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Category : Electronic dissertations
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Counterstory, an analytical tool of Critical Race Theory, was used in this dissertation to foreground the voices of four young Black men completing a non-credit bearing developmental or remedial mathematics (DevRemMath) course at Suburban Community College (SCC). This study presents young Black men's first-person perspectives about the conditions that determined their learning and doing of postsecondary mathematics, which is operationalized in this dissertation as participation. Their narratives further clarify the race-gender dimensions of participation, and the factors that promoted or deterred participation in DevRemMath at SCC. The study offers several implications for advancing racial justice in DevRemMath and postsecondary mathematics learning, which include reframing how faculty and administration respond to the needs of young Black men in planning and delivering DevRemMath instruction, as well as naming the significance of faculty interactions with young Black men to counter barriers to their academic success. The dissertation concludes with recommendations for (re)structuring DevRemMath spaces in order to better strengthen young Black men's participation in the learning and doing of postsecondary mathematics.Keywords: Critical Race Theory (CRT), Counter Storytelling, Master narrative, Developmental mathematics, Remedial mathematics, Black males, Community College.
Rising to the Challenge
Author: Lynne E. Kowski
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Category : Community college students
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Commitment to educational access for all students is the primary mission for many community colleges. Postsecondary developmental education is a path to achieve educational equity for many students not prepared for the rigor of college-level courses. In community colleges postsecondary developmental education gives incoming freshmen a place where they can obtain the necessary prerequisite proficiencies needed to achieve success in their college-level courses (Armstrong, 2000; Brothen & Wambach, 2004; McCabe 2000). This paper includes a literature review of developmental education reform initiatives throughout the country, as well as effective past studies regarding postsecondary developmental education in mathematics and its impact on postsecondary success. The primary research focus is to determine if community college students who require and successfully pass developmental mathematics exhibit similar academic outcomes as those not requiring any developmental mathematics. Since this is a clustered sample, students clustered by the high school from which they graduated, hierarchical generalized linear modeling (HGLM) is used to compare the long-term academic outcomes of traditional age (directly out of high school), first time in college (FTIC) students attending a New Jersey, Achieving the Dream (ATD) community college. Initial findings from the fall 2009 cohort show that students requiring developmental education in mathematics, once successfully remediated, experience comparable college-level mathematics course grades to those not requiring developmental mathematics; indicating that developmental mathematics programs can in effect repair initial educational deficiencies for those who pass all courses in the required developmental mathematics sequence with grade of C or better. Unfortunately, also found significant was that developmental mathematics students who started in the lowest level of developmental mathematics are the least likely to persist until successful remediation, thereby eliminating any aspirations of graduating and/or transferring. This study validates the initial findings from one freshmen cohort to another with regard to successful mathematics remediation, as well as expands predictors to include developmental English, financial aid and demographics such as ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status. Furthermore, since many students in developmental mathematics do not complete their remediation in a timely manner and/or drop-out of college, this study also investigates what factors increase or decrease the likelihood of successful mathematics remediation, thereby enhancing or inhibiting persistence to graduation or transfer to a four-year institution.
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Category : Community college students
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Commitment to educational access for all students is the primary mission for many community colleges. Postsecondary developmental education is a path to achieve educational equity for many students not prepared for the rigor of college-level courses. In community colleges postsecondary developmental education gives incoming freshmen a place where they can obtain the necessary prerequisite proficiencies needed to achieve success in their college-level courses (Armstrong, 2000; Brothen & Wambach, 2004; McCabe 2000). This paper includes a literature review of developmental education reform initiatives throughout the country, as well as effective past studies regarding postsecondary developmental education in mathematics and its impact on postsecondary success. The primary research focus is to determine if community college students who require and successfully pass developmental mathematics exhibit similar academic outcomes as those not requiring any developmental mathematics. Since this is a clustered sample, students clustered by the high school from which they graduated, hierarchical generalized linear modeling (HGLM) is used to compare the long-term academic outcomes of traditional age (directly out of high school), first time in college (FTIC) students attending a New Jersey, Achieving the Dream (ATD) community college. Initial findings from the fall 2009 cohort show that students requiring developmental education in mathematics, once successfully remediated, experience comparable college-level mathematics course grades to those not requiring developmental mathematics; indicating that developmental mathematics programs can in effect repair initial educational deficiencies for those who pass all courses in the required developmental mathematics sequence with grade of C or better. Unfortunately, also found significant was that developmental mathematics students who started in the lowest level of developmental mathematics are the least likely to persist until successful remediation, thereby eliminating any aspirations of graduating and/or transferring. This study validates the initial findings from one freshmen cohort to another with regard to successful mathematics remediation, as well as expands predictors to include developmental English, financial aid and demographics such as ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status. Furthermore, since many students in developmental mathematics do not complete their remediation in a timely manner and/or drop-out of college, this study also investigates what factors increase or decrease the likelihood of successful mathematics remediation, thereby enhancing or inhibiting persistence to graduation or transfer to a four-year institution.
Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
Author: Michael B. Paulsen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401780056
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on a comprehensive set of central areas of study in higher education that encompasses the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. Each annual volume contains chapters on such diverse topics as research on college students and faculty, organization and administration, curriculum and instruction, policy, diversity issues, economics and finance, history and philosophy, community colleges, advances in research methodology and more. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401780056
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on a comprehensive set of central areas of study in higher education that encompasses the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. Each annual volume contains chapters on such diverse topics as research on college students and faculty, organization and administration, curriculum and instruction, policy, diversity issues, economics and finance, history and philosophy, community colleges, advances in research methodology and more. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world.
Gender and STEM: Understanding Segregation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Author: Maria Charles
Publisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3038971472
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Gender and STEM: Understanding Segregation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics" that was published in Social Sciences
Publisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3038971472
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Gender and STEM: Understanding Segregation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics" that was published in Social Sciences
Comparative Effectiveness of Selected Remediation Programs in Postsecondary Mathematics
Author: William Hodge Howland
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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Racial and Gender Differences in Enrollment in Upper Level High School Mathematics and Science Courses
Author: Barbara W. King
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Category : African American students
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Category : African American students
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Journal of Developmental Education
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Category : Compensatory education
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Category : Compensatory education
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Digest of Education Statistics
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Contains information on a variety of subjects within the field of education statistics, including the number of schools and colleges, enrollments, teachers, graduates, educational attainment, finances, Federal funds for education, libraries, international education, and research and development.
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Contains information on a variety of subjects within the field of education statistics, including the number of schools and colleges, enrollments, teachers, graduates, educational attainment, finances, Federal funds for education, libraries, international education, and research and development.