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Table S31-3.  Standard errors for the percentage distribution by the most frequent type of credit earned for remedial courses, among degree-granting institutions that offered remedial courses in the given subjects, 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 1.1 1.6 2.7 1.7   1.0 1.4 2.4 1.8   1.1 1.5 2.4 2.0
Public 2-year 0.6 1.8 2.7 2.2   0.6 1.8 2.6 2.2   0.6 1.7 2.5 2.5
Private 2-year     2.3 11.0 9.0
Public 4-year 3.4 4.5 2.8   2.9 2.7 3.8 2.6   2.5 3.6 2.3
Private 4-year 4.4 5.9 4.5   1.6 2.8 4.1 3.7   2.7 3.9 5.3 5.0
                             
  2000
  All institutions 0.5 1.3 1.9 1.3   1.0 1.4 1.9 1.1   1.0 1.2 1.7 1.0
Public 2-year 0.9 1.0 2.2 1.6   0.9 1.3 2.3 1.6   0.9 1.1 2.3 1.6
Private 2-year   6.4 3.9   5.6 5.9 3.5
Public 4-year 0.6 1.7 3.3 2.4   0.7 1.3 2.4 1.7   0.5 1.0 2.1 1.6
Private 4-year 1.2 4.5 4.7 3.7   3.0 4.0 4.3 2.5   2.9 3.6 3.7 1.7

‡Reporting standards not met (too few cases).

SOURCE: Parsad, B., and Lewis, L. (2003). Remedial Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions in Fall 2000 (NCES 2004–010), table B-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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