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¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Students in QR Category III in 2018 earned on average 4.4 more baccalaureate units in their first year than students designated 'not college ready' in the 2017 cohort. → Bracco 2021

Evidence¶

Bracco 2021¶

Bracco, K. R., Barrat, V. X., Skjoldhorne, S., & Finkelstein, N. (2021). Student Progress Before and After California State University's Executive Order 1110. WestEd. http://csustudentsuccess.org/multiple-measures

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Systemwide observational comparison of the 2017 and 2018 entering CSU cohorts (58,758 and 59,790 students) using Chancellor's Office course-enrollment data. The report states Category III students "earned, on average, 4.4 more units" than 2017 'not college ready' students, attributing this to elimination of noncredit developmental courses.

"In contrast, students in categories III and IV for QR placement attempted and earned , on average, more credits in 2018 than students who were classified as “ not college ready ” in 2017. Students in Category III for QR earned, on average, 4.4 more units (or more than one class) than those in the “ not college ready ” category in the 2017 cohort."

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
• 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
• 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
• EO 1110 significantly increased first-year completion of the quantitative reasoning (B4) requirement, roughly doubling completion among students needing additional support — related
• Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino students were overrepresented in lower QR placement categories relative to their share of the 2018 CSU entering cohort — related
• Despite gains in credits and B4 completion, retention declines under EO 1110 were similar to baseline: 2018 Category III/IV students retained at the same rates as 2017 'not college ready' students — related
• Students who entered CSU without declaring a major were retained at slightly lower rates than students who entered with a declared major — related
• Systemwide first-year B4 completion rose to approximately 73 percent in 2018/19, up from approximately 63 percent in each of the three previous years — 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