ABSTRACT Since the 2000s, states have experimented with reforms to improve success among underprepared students traditionally assigned to developmental education (DE). Florida’s reform under Senate Bill 1720 has been among the most comprehensive and wide-reaching. Recent public high school graduates and military personnel became exempt from DE, but nearly one-third of students, including those without a Florida standard high school diploma, were still required to take a placement test and enroll in DE if they scored below college-ready. The legislation also required colleges to offer accelerated instructional strategies for students remaining in DE, and provide enhanced advising and support services. Focusing specifically on nonexempt students, we use statewide data to conduct a difference-in-regression discontinuity analysis to examine differences in first-year math coursetaking outcomes for students on the margins of college readiness before and after the reform. While students narrowly assigned to DE tend to have a lower likelihood of taking and passing college-level courses relative to their college-ready peers, these students experienced larger gains after the reform when DE courses were offered in accelerated formats accompanied by support services. The reform also improved outcomes for students scoring above college-ready, which suggests that nonexempt students benefited from enhanced advising and support services too.

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将焦点放在佛罗里达州改革聚光灯之外的人身上：发展性教育改革对非豁免学生的影响

摘要自 2000 年代以来，各州一直在尝试进行改革，以提高传统上分配给发展教育 (DE) 的准备不足的学生的成功率。佛罗里达州根据参议院 1720 号法案进行的改革是最全面和影响最广泛的改革之一。最近的公立高中毕业生和军事人员免于 DE，但仍有近三分之一的学生，包括那些没有佛罗里达标准高中文凭的学生，如果他们的分数低于大学准备水平，仍然需要参加分级考试并注册 DE . 该立法还要求大学为留在 DE 的学生提供加速教学策略，并提供增强的咨询和支持服务。特别关注非豁免学生，我们使用全州数据进行回归差异不连续性分析，以检查改革前后处于大学准备阶段的学生第一年数学课程学习成绩的差异。虽然相对于准备上大学的同龄人而言，被狭隘地分配到 DE 的学生参加和通过大学水平课程的可能性较低，但这些学生在改革后以加速形式提供 DE 课程并提供支持服务时获得了更大的收益。改革还改善了得分高于大学准备好的学生的成绩，这表明非豁免学生也受益于增强的咨询和支持服务。虽然相对于准备上大学的同龄人而言，被狭隘地分配到 DE 的学生参加和通过大学水平课程的可能性较低，但这些学生在改革后以加速形式提供 DE 课程并提供支持服务时获得了更大的收益。改革还改善了得分高于大学准备好的学生的成绩，这表明非豁免学生也受益于增强的咨询和支持服务。虽然相对于准备上大学的同龄人而言，被狭隘地分配到 DE 的学生参加和通过大学水平课程的可能性较低，但这些学生在改革后以加速形式提供 DE 课程并提供支持服务时获得了更大的收益。改革还改善了得分高于大学准备好的学生的成绩，这表明非豁免学生也受益于增强的咨询和支持服务。