Community college students experience assessment and placement as a one-day isolated event with minimal advance information, not as part of a continuous process¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2010 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2015: baselines and conditions change

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q2 i? Students describe assessment and placement as an isolated one-day event with minimal to no advance information, encountered for the first time upon arrival at college. → Venezia 2010

Evidence¶

Venezia 2010¶

Venezia, A., Bracco, K. R., & Nodine, T. (2010). One-shot deal? Students' perceptions of assessment and course placement in California's community colleges. San Francisco: WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED566386

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Focus groups with students at five California community colleges, primarily students no more than two years out of high school, found that most students perceive matriculation services as "an isolated event that happens one day with minimal to no advance information." An issue became a finding only if discussed in multiple focus groups with general agreement.

"They describe an isolated event that happens one day with minimal to no advance information. They walk into a testing center and take a test that seems disconnected to any recent academic work they had in high school."

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Related Claims¶

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