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Higher Placement Standards Increase Course Success but Reduce Program Completions
- The Journal of General Education
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 55, Number 2, 2006
- pp. 138-159
- 10.1353/jge.2006.0023
- Article
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A rigorous placement exam introduced into a Developmental Mathematics program increased course success rates, retention, and enrollment rates in math courses but reduced completion rates in Developmental Math and standard math courses required for a degree. There may be an inverse relationship between course success rates and total program throughput.