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Title: Failing at Remediation? College Remedial Course-taking, Failure and Long-term Student Outcomes
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Sanabria, Tanya Penner, Andrew M. Domina, Thurston |
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Failing at Remediation? College Remedial Course-taking, Failure and Long-term Student Outcomes Presented: Seattle WA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): College Degree; College Major/Field of Study/Courses; Earnings; Educational Outcomes; Grade Point Average (GPA)/Grades; Schooling, Post-secondary Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Many students who enroll in post-secondary education are not adequately prepared to succeed in college-level courses. Colleges offer remedial coursework to help underprepared students. Despite the prevalence of remediation, previous research presents contradictory findings regarding the short and long-term effects of remediation. This paper contributes to this literature by examining whether the degree completion and wage outcomes associated with remedial education vary by whether students pass or fail remedial courses. Using the NLSY Postsecondary Transcript-1997 data we find that 40 percent of students who take remedial coursework fail one or more of their remedial courses, and that underrepresented minority students and students working more than 20 hours per week had higher odds of failing remedial coursework. Students who took and passed their remedial coursework had higher odds of graduating from college and had higher earnings than students who did not take remedial coursework, but students who failed at least one remedial course had lower odds of degree completion and earned 5 percent lower wages over a five-year average. Our findings suggest that while many students may benefit from remedial education, a substantial number of students struggle with remedial coursework. |
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Sanabria, Tanya, Andrew M. Penner and Thurston Domina. "Failing at Remediation? College Remedial Course-taking, Failure and Long-term Student Outcomes." Presented: Seattle WA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2016. |