Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino students were overrepresented in lower QR placement categories relative to their share of the 2018 CSU entering cohort¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2025: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Hispanic/Latino and Black/African American students comprised 55 percent of the cohort overall but 71 percent of students placed into QR Category IV. → Bracco 2020

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

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Observational analysis of placement status for the 59,790-student 2018 cohort (Figure 2). The report finds "Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino students comprised 55 percent of the cohort overall, but comprised 71 percent of the population of students placed into QR Category IV."

"Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino students comprised 55 percent of the cohort overall, but comprised 71 percent of the population of students placed into QR Category IV."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Race and Ethnicity — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause

Related Claims¶

• Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino students earned fewer first-year baccalaureate units than White and Asian students in every QR placement category in both cohorts — 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
• Within QR placement categories, White and Asian students earned significantly more first-year units than Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino students, with gaps most pronounced in Category IV — related
• Under EO 1110, students in QR placement categories III and IV attempted and earned more baccalaureate credits in their first year than comparable 'not college ready' students did in 2017 — related
• Retention rates for Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino students dropped more steeply between the second and third semesters than for White and Asian students in both cohorts — related
• Students who entered CSU without declaring a major were retained at slightly lower rates than students who entered with a declared major — related
• Culturally and linguistically diverse students are underrepresented in gifted identification nationwide — related
• At-risk identification is demographically patterned, with Black, Hispanic, and male students more likely to be identified — related