Help or Hindrance? The Effects of College Remediation on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes

By P. Martorell, Isaac McFarlin. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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Competing Explanations of Undergraduate Noncompletion (2011, background): “Martorell and McFarlin (2007) report Attewell et al. less sanguine findings: Students who took remedial mathematics did not pass their first college-level mathematics course, nor did they complete a degree in higher numbers than their nonremedial counterparts.”
Improving College Access in the United States: Barriers and Policy Responses (2015, neutral): “For example, Martorell and McFarlin (2011) examine administrative records for over 250,000 students in Texas public two- and four-year colleges: those just below the test score threshold had significantly lower rates of persistence and college credit accumulation, with no impact on degree…”
A Model for Accelerating Academic Success of Community College Remedial English Students: Is the Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) Effective and Affordable? CCRC Working Paper No. 21. (2010, background): “…their results are most reliable for students at the upper end of the developmental range—that is, for students who are assigned to remediation but who score near the developmental “cut-off” point on placement tests (Bettinger & Long, 2005; Calcagno & Long, 2008; Martorell & McFarlin, 2007).”
Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Discrete Running Variable (2016, background): “…published in leading economics journals that follow this methodology include Oreopoulos (2006), Card et al. (2008), Urquiola and Verhoogen (2009), Martorell and McFarlin (2011), Fredriksson et al. (2013), Chetty et al. (2013), Clark and Royer (2013), and Hinnerich and Pettersson-Lidbom (2014),…”
An Examination of the Impact of Accelerating Community College Students' Progression through Developmental Education (2014, background): “…persistence, and degree attainment at different public higher education systems across the country (Bettinger & long, 2009; calcagno & long, 2008; martorell & mcFarlin, 2011; Scottclayton & Rodriguez, 2012). that is, in the absence of developmental education, many “underprepared” students would…”
Improving the Targeting of Treatment (2012, background): “For example, Martorell and McFarlin (2011) examine administrative records for over 250,000 students in Texas public 2-and 4-year colleges: Those just below the test-score threshold had significantly lower rates of persistence and college credit accumulation, with no impact on degree attainment and…”
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).”
The Impact of Developmental Education on Community College Persistence and Vertical Transfer (2014, background): “As such, we were not able to measure or control for characteristics and policies that likely impact success outcomes (Bettinger & Long, 2005; Calcagno & Long, 2008; Martorell & McFarlin, 2011).”