When Developmental Education is Optional, What Will Students Do? A Preliminary Analysis of Survey Data on Student Course Enrollment Decisions in an Environment of Increased Choice

Toby Park; Chenoa S. Woods; Keith Richard; David Tandberg; Shouping Hu; Tamara Bertrand Jones

doi:10.1007/s10755-015-9343-6

When Developmental Education is Optional, What Will Students Do? A Preliminary Analysis of Survey Data on Student Course Enrollment Decisions in an Environment of Increased Choice

Toby Park, Chenoa S. Woods, Keith Richard, David Tandberg, Shouping Hu, Tamara Bertrand Jones

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Historically, college students needing additional academic preparation have been assigned to developmental/remedial courses. In 2013 Florida took a drastic departure from this model by passing Senate Bill 1720, which prohibited institutions from requiring placement tests and made developmental education optional for many students, regardless of prior academic preparation. For this pilot study we conducted a survey at two colleges in the Florida College System to begin to understand the kinds of courses students will take now that developmental education is optional and the factors that students considered when making their course enrollment decisions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	221-236
Number of pages	16
Journal	Innovative Higher Education
Volume	41
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-015-9343-6
State	Published - Jun 1 2016
Externally published	Yes

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When Developmental Education is Optional, What Will Students Do? A Preliminary Analysis of Survey Data on Student Course Enrollment Decisions in an Environment of Increased Choice. / Park, Toby; Woods, Chenoa S.; Richard, Keith et al.
In: Innovative Higher Education, Vol. 41, No. 3, 01.06.2016, p. 221-236.

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