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Remediation and Degree Completion
Table S18.  Standard errors for the percentage who earned a specific degree or certificate among 1992 12th-graders who enrolled in postsecondary education, by type and intensity of postsecondary remedial coursework: 2000

    Highest degree earned
 
Type of
remedial coursework
Any Certificate Associate’s
degree
Bachelor’s
degree
or higher
Percentage of
students in
remediation
category

Any remedial reading 2.61 1.34 0.99 2.01 0.68
           
Two or fewer courses of remedial
  mathematics only
2.91 1.19 1.43 2.81 0.60
           
Two or more other remedial courses,
  but no remedial reading
2.67 1.52 1.91 1.98 0.69
           
One remedial course, not mathematics
  or reading
2.85 1.61 1.29 2.75 0.36
           
No remedial courses 1.22 0.48 0.61 1.31 1.04

SOURCE: Adelman, C. (2004). Principal Indicators of Student Academic Histories in Postsecondary Education, 1972–2000, table 7.3. Available at: http://preview.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/prinindicat/index.html. Data from U.S. Department of Education, NCES, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/2000), “Fourth Follow-up, 2000.”

 

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