Collection

2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas; Aysa Galbraith, University of Arkansas; Heath Aren Schluterman, University of Arkansas; Brandon Crisel; Candace Auburn Rainwater, University of Arkansas

the United States need some form of remediation (Schak et al., 2017) and evenmore are considered unprepared to be successful in rigorous college level courses. Studentpreparedness may be an indicator of student persistence in higher education, since students whoenroll in remedial courses are less likely to complete their degree (NCPPHE, 2010).Scott-Clayton and Rodriguez (2015) found that while $4 billion is invested annually in courses tohelp underprepared students, little positive effect has been attributed to the effort. They proposedseveral possible reasons why efforts may have little success including that exam placement maynot be an accurate method of placement, remedial courses may not actually be addressing orfocusing on the needs of