PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2017
San Diego, California
An alternate characterisation of developmental mathematics students
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Developmental – or the antiquated “remedial” – mathematics is a large enterprise in Americancolleges. For the California State University (CSU) system roughly one-third of all studentsrequire developmental mathematics. Placement in these courses in the CSU is determined by astandardized test. Those who fail are required to take some campus-specific variant ofdevelopmental mathematics. This poster addresses the question, what more can be said aboutstudents enrolled in developmental mathematics programs other than they have failed an exam?An analysis of survey instrument data will be presented that shows San Jose State Universitydevelopmental mathematics students are fundamentally different, undesirably so, than their non-developmental counterparts on a range of attitudinal, affective, and dispositional measures.Key words: