Constructing Corequisites: How Community Colleges Structure Corequisite Math Coursework and the Implications for Student Success
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Lauren Schudde, University of Texas-Austin
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Project Citation:
Schudde, Lauren. Constructing Corequisites: How Community Colleges Structure Corequisite Math Coursework and the Implications for Student Success. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-02-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/E163222V1
Project Description
Summary:
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States and broad-access colleges are rapidly scaling corequisite coursework—a model where students concurrently enroll in college-level and developmental coursework—in response to dismal completion rates in traditional “developmental” sequences. At community colleges, evidence suggests that corequisite reforms can dramatically improve students’ completion of required college-level courses, but colleges often implement new programing and sequences with limited information. We analyzed administrative data from Texas community colleges implementing a statewide corequisite mandate. Our results illustrate: (a) how colleges structured corequisite courses in response to the statewide mandate, and (b) how corequisite coursework characteristics predicted student outcomes. Our results suggest that some corequisite coursework elements—including mixed-ability college-level classes, higher credits for the dev-ed corequisite support course, and using the same instructor across both the college-level and dev-ed course—improve students’ probability of passing college-level math, though these course design elements do not appear to predict long-term outcomes like persistence in college.
Funding Sources:
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National Science Foundation (1856720);
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD042849)
Scope of Project
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Texas
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administrative records data
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