Under Tennessee's 2015 co-requisite remediation policy, completing SAILS no longer produced any boost in college credits¶
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q3 i? After community colleges allowed students to complete remediation alongside college-level math, SAILS completion no longer boosted college credits. → Thomas J. Kane 2021
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Thomas J. Kane 2021¶
Thomas J. Kane, Angela Boatman, Whitney Kozakowski, Christopher Bennett, Rachel Hitch, Dana Weisenfeld. (2021). Is College Remediation a Barrier or a Boost? Evidence from the Tennessee SAILS Program. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 40, issue 3. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/is-college-remediation-a-barrier-or-a-boost-evidence-from-the-tennessee-sails-program doi:10.1002/pam.22306
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Policy-change comparison: after the 2015 co-requisite remediation policy, which allowed remediation alongside college-level math, the article reports SAILS completion "no longer produced any boost in college credits." No effect size is printed; the null is reported without a test statistic.
"In 2015, Tennessee community colleges implemented “co‐requisite” remediation, allowing students to complete remediation alongside college‐level math. Under the co‐requisite policy, completing SAILS no longer produced any boost in college credits."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Remediation requirements are not a primary driver of low college degree completion rates — related
- Completing SAILS boosted first-year community college students' enrollment in college-level math by nearly 30 percentage points — related
- SAILS completers had completed only 1.5 additional college courses after two years — related
- The high school SAILS remedial math course did not improve math achievement more than a typical senior year math course — related
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Under Tennessee's 2015 co-requisite remediation policy, completing SAILS no longer produced any boost in college credits |
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Under Tennessee's 2015 co-requisite remediation policy, completing SAILS no longer produced any boost in college credits |
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