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Entry-level examinations and the community college: "Cooling out" or casting out?

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Date Issued:
1990
Summary:
The community college system has been charged with providing open access to education for those who would otherwise be unable to obtain higher education, and with maintaining high educational standards at the same time. In an attempt to reconcile these disparate goals, the State of Florida legislated, beginning in 1985, entry-level testing and placement into remedial courses for those scoring below legislated cut-off scores. Remedial education, if effective, should result in increased student success. When the student success rates of a pre-legislation cohort are compared to students from a post-legislation cohort, they have not increased. Instead, declines are seen in graduation, retention in good academic standing, and the number leaving the college in good academic standing. These declines were not greater for minorities than for white students. The "cooling-out" function of community colleges is enhanced by the process.
Title: Entry-level examinations and the community college: "Cooling out" or casting out?.
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Name(s): Gabe, LiAnne Creviston.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Anderson, Kristine L., Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Sociology
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1990
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 56 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The community college system has been charged with providing open access to education for those who would otherwise be unable to obtain higher education, and with maintaining high educational standards at the same time. In an attempt to reconcile these disparate goals, the State of Florida legislated, beginning in 1985, entry-level testing and placement into remedial courses for those scoring below legislated cut-off scores. Remedial education, if effective, should result in increased student success. When the student success rates of a pre-legislation cohort are compared to students from a post-legislation cohort, they have not increased. Instead, declines are seen in graduation, retention in good academic standing, and the number leaving the college in good academic standing. These declines were not greater for minorities than for white students. The "cooling-out" function of community colleges is enhanced by the process.
Identifier: 14588 (digitool), FADT14588 (IID), fau:11385 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1990.
Subject(s): Community colleges--Florida
Community colleges--Entrance requirements
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