First-year completion of the A2 and B4 General Education requirements varied sharply by placement category, with wider gaps in QR than in WC¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? About 80 percent of WC Category II students met the A2 requirement in the first year versus 60 percent of WC Category IV students. → Bracco 2020 q2 i? About three quarters of QR Category II students met the B4 requirement versus about 50 percent of QR Category IV students, a wider gap than for A2. → Bracco 2020 (2)

Evidence¶

Bracco 2020¶

Bracco, K., Barrat, V., & Finkelstein, N. (2020). Student progress under California State University's Executive Order 1110: A systemwide analysis of outcomes in 2018/19. WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED613408

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Analysis of A2 completion among 51,177 students in WC Categories II to IV (Figure 6). About 80 percent of Category II students met A2 in the first year, while 60 percent of Category IV students did; nearly a quarter of Category IV students never attempted an A2 course.

"About 80 percent of students placed in WC Category II met the A2 requirement in the first year"

Bracco 2020 (2)¶

Bracco, K., Barrat, V., & Finkelstein, N. (2020). Student progress under California State University's Executive Order 1110: A systemwide analysis of outcomes in 2018/19. WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED613408

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Analysis of B4 completion among 52,357 students in QR Categories II to IV (Figure 7). About three quarters of Category II students met B4, versus about 50 percent of Category IV students; one quarter of Category IV students had not attempted a B4 course by year's end.

"About three quarters of students placed in QR Category II met the B4 requirement in the first year"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• First-year completion of the written communication (A2) requirement was similar across the 2017 and 2018 cohorts at approximately 80 percent — related
• First-semester outcomes strongly predicted second-semester A2 and B4 completion: students who completed first-semester stretch courses mostly completed the requirement, while most who failed an A2 or B4 course did not retake it — related
• Under EO 1110's first year, the majority of CSU entering first-year students were placed in Category II in both Written Communication (74 percent) and Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning (63 percent) — related
• EO 1110 significantly increased first-year completion of the quantitative reasoning (B4) requirement, roughly doubling completion among students needing additional support — related
• Second-semester stretch courses had higher completion rates than other course types for B4 across all placement categories and for A2 in Categories III and IV, but not Category II; corequisite and traditional course completion rates did not differ significantly — related
• Average first-year baccalaureate units earned decreased with each lower QR placement category, from about 27 units in Category I to about 20 in Category IV — related