Among degree-granting institutions that offered remedial courses in the given subjects, percentage distribution by the most frequent type of credit earned for remedial courses, by subject area and type of institution: Fall 1995 and 2000

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Table 31-3. Among degree-granting institutions that offered remedial courses in the given subjects, percentage distribution by the most frequent type of credit earned for remedial courses, by subject area and type of institution: Fall 1995 and 2000

	Reading				Writing				Mathematics
Type of institution	Degree credit, subject	Degree credit, elective	Institu- tional credit	No credit	Degree credit, subject	Degree credit, elective	Institu- tional credit	No credit	Degree credit, subject	Degree credit, elective	Institu- tional credit	No credit

	1995
All institutions	3	15	72	10	4	17	68	11	5	11	71	13
Public 2-year	1	8	81	9	2	8	81	9	2	7	80	11
Private 2-year¹	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	4!	65	20
Public 4-year	‡	16	73	9	6	11	70	12	‡	9	75	13
Private 4-year¹	‡	36	51	11	4	40	46	9	9	23	55	14

	2000
All institutions	2	10	78	9	4	14	73	9	4	10	77	10
Public 2-year	2	4	87	7	2	5	86	7	2	4	87	7
Private 2-year¹	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	81	9	9!	‡	81	8
Public 4-year	2	8	78	12	3	7	82	8	2	4	83	11
Private 4-year¹	3	30	51	17	5!	37	45	14	6	25	54	15

!Interpret data with caution (estimates are unstable).
‡Reporting standards not met (too few cases).
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: In fall 1995 and 2000, institutions reported the most frequent type of credit they gave for remedial reading, writing, and mathematics courses from among the following options: degree credit that counts toward subject requirements; degree credit that counts toward elective requirements; institutional credit (e.g., counts toward financial aid, campus housing, or full-time student status, but does not count toward degree completion); or no credit.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. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding and not reporting where there are too few cases for a reliable estimate.
SOURCE: Parsad, B., and Lewis, L. (2003). Remedial Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions in Fall 2000 (NCES 2004–010), table 8. 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.

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