Corequisite News

UCA’s Corequisite Course Success Highlighted by the Charles A. Dana Center

The good work in the Department of Student Transitions has gained national attention. After years of offering stand-alone developmental math courses and after a few years of offering modular-based Progressive Mathematics, the Department of Student Transitions began the process of piloting, refining, and expanding co-requisite courses that pair a transitional math class with a college-level math class. The results have been a stunning success.

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Corequisite Success in Arkansas

“We also piloted corequisite College Algebra in 2015. We had several different versions of algebra at that time, from a standalone intermediate algebra to an eight-week accelerated course, but we immediately realized that the corequisite model was outperforming the others. It only took us one semester to say, ‘this is far better than what we’re doing.’… In the corequisite algebra course, we are averaging an 85 percent success rate. Last fall, we had a 92 percent pass rate. Successful completion of the transitional writing course is at about 80 percent.”

CCA Blog Post
Dr. Amy Baldwin, Ed.D
Chair, Department of Student Transitions
University of Central Arkansas