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Saturday, May 13, 2017
Same Course, Different Outcomes: The Mysterious Case of Computerized Developmental Math in Tennessee - Maggie P. Fay, EDUCAUSE Review
The course, called SAILS math, was identical — in both content and delivery model — to the developmental math curriculum in Tennessee community colleges (though Tennessee community colleges have since moved to a corequisite remediation model). Though the courses were the same, high school students finished the course at much higher rates. They were between 14 and 29 percentage points more likely than college students to complete the course with a passing grade in a single semester.
http://er.educause.edu/blogs/2017/4/same-course-different-outcomes-the-mysterious-case-of-computerized-developmental-math-in-tennessee