Table 31-1. Number of entering freshmen at degree-granting institutions, and percentage of entering freshmen enrolled in remedial courses, by subject area and type of institution: Fall 1995 and 2000
|
|---|
| |
|
Percentage of entering freshmen enrolled in remedial courses in:
|
| Type of institution |
Number of
entering freshmen
(in thousands) |
Reading, writing,
or mathematics |
Reading |
Writing |
Mathematics |
|
| |
1995 |
| All institutions |
2,100 |
28 |
12 |
16 |
22 |
| Public 2-year |
936 |
40 |
19 |
24 |
32 |
| Private 2-year1 |
53 |
26 |
11 |
19 |
23 |
| Public 4-year |
721 |
21 |
8 |
11 |
17 |
| Private 4-year1 |
389 |
12 |
5 |
7 |
8 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
2000 |
| All institutions |
2,396 |
28 |
11 |
14 |
22 |
| Public 2-year |
992 |
42 |
20 |
23 |
35 |
| Private 2-year1 |
58 |
24 |
9 |
17 |
18 |
| Public 4-year |
849 |
20 |
6 |
9 |
16 |
| Private 4-year1 |
497 |
12 |
5 |
7 |
8 |
|
1Data from private not-for-profit and for-profit institutions are reported together because there are too few private for-profit institutions in the sample to report them separately.
|
NOTE: Data reported for fall 2000 are based on Title IV degree-granting institutions that enrolled freshmen in 2000. Data reported for fall 1995 are based on degree-granting institutions that enrolled freshmen in 1995. Remedial education includes “courses on reading, writing, or mathematics for college students lacking those skills necessary to perform college-level work at the level required by the [sampled] institution.” Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
|
SOURCE: Parsad, B., and Lewis, L. (2003). Remedial Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions in Fall 2000 (NCES 2004–010), table 4. Data from U.S. Department of Education, NCES, Postsecondary Education Quick Information System (PEQIS), “Survey on Remedial Education in Higher Education Institutions,” fall 1995 and 2000.
|
|
