Addressing the Needs of Underprepared Students in Higher Education

By E. Bettinger, Bridget Terry Long. The Journal of human resources, 2005

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Bridging the Pipeline: Increasing Underrepresented Students’ Preparation for College Through a Summer Bridge Program (2011, background): “Bettinger and Long (2009) posit that public colleges spend more than $1 billion annually on remedial education.”
Improving College Access in the United States: Barriers and Policy Responses (2015, unknown): “The first of these, by Bettinger and Long (2009), also is one of the only studies to find positive effects of remedial (versus college-level) assignment.”
The Community College Route to the Bachelor’s Degree (2015, result): “A number of studies with high internal reliability have investigated the impact of remediation, but results have been inconclusive (Bettinger & Long, 2009; Boatman & Long, 2010; Calcagno & Long, 2008; Martorell & McFarlin, 2011).”
Toward a New Understanding of Non-Academic Student Support: Four Mechanisms Encouraging Positive Student Outcomes in the Community College. CCRC Working Paper No. 28. Assessment of Evidence Series. (2011, background): “Recent studies show mixed impacts from participation in developmental education (Bettinger & Long, 2005, 2009; Calcagno & Long, 2008), which indicates that such interventions do not appear to meaningfully increase the number of developmental education students obtaining degrees.”
Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial (2007, unknown): “At the college level, Bettinger and Long (2005) show positive effects of remedial freshmen courses on retention.”
Competing Explanations of Undergraduate Noncompletion (2011, background): “Bettinger and Long (2004, 2009) analyzed data for full-time traditional-age undergraduates and came to the opposite conclusion, finding that students in remediation were more likely to complete a degree.”
Does Remediation Work for All Students? How the Effects of Postsecondary Remedial and Developmental Courses Vary by Level of Academic Preparation (2010, background): “Remediation was found to have positive effects on the probability of college persistence at a large state university in the Northeast and in 4-year colleges in Ohio (Bettinger & Long, 2009; Lesik, 2007).”
Using a Regression Discontinuity Design to Estimate the Impact of Placement Decisions in Developmental Math (2015, methodology): “, total numbers of credits completed, degrees attained, and transfers to a 4-year college) (Bettinger and Long 2009; Calcagno and Long 2008; Martorell and McFarlin 2011).”
Referral, Enrollment, and Completion in Developmental Education Sequences in Community Colleges. CCRC Working Paper No. 15. (2008, background): “Bettinger and Long (2005) used different remediation assignment cutoff scores among community colleges in Ohio to compare similar students who were and were not referred to developmental education to measure 4 the effect of the remedial instruction.”
Improving the Targeting of Treatment (2012, background): “In practice, institutional decisions about which screening tools to use and where to establish cutoffs for college-level coursework appear to be somewhat ad hoc (Bettinger & Long, 2009).”
The effects of self-regulated learning training on community college students’ metacognition and achievement in developmental math courses (2016, background): “Some researchers (Attewell, Lavin, Domina, & Levey, 2006; Bettinger & Long, 2009) found that students who took developmental courses were just as likely to attain their academic goals as those who did not take developmental courses.”
The Effects of Student Coaching (2014, background): “Studies of college remediation (e.g., Bettinger & Long, 2009; Calcagno & Long, 2008) have attempted to identify whether academic remediation can improve students’ college outcomes.”
Development, Discouragement, or Diversion? New Evidence on the Effects of College Remediation Policy (2015, background): “…just above and below remedial test score cutoffs, has found mixed evidence at best regarding whether assignment to remediation actually improves student outcomes (Bettinger and Long 2005, 2009; Calcagno and Long 2008; Boatman and Long 2010; Martorell and McFarlin 2011; Dadgar 2012; Hodara 2012).”