Strategies for Promoting Gatekeeper Course Success Among Students Needing Remediation
This report discusses findings and recommendations from a CCRC study designed to help community colleges develop strategies for improving the rate at which academically underprepared students take and pass initial college-level (or “gatekeeper”) courses in math and English. Based on analysis of more than 24,000 first-time students who enrolled in a Virginia community college in summer or fall 2004, the study examines student characteristics, course-taking patterns, and other factors associated with higher probabilities that students who require remediation will take and pass math and English gatekeeper courses.
Josipa Roksa, Davis Jenkins, Shanna Smith Jaggars, Matthew Zeidenberg & Sung-Woo Cho
Community College Research Center
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