In particular, according to record about academic credit hours, years of college completed, degree attainment of student successful accomplished in college and total earnings received in the 5th ,6th,and 7th year after a students first entry in college to examine the impact of remediation. In Texas, law required all students pursuing academic degrees to entry in remediation if they could not get admission in college. Of course, assignment to remediation is largely determined by scores on placement test, also called TASP (Texas Academic Skills Program) that decided who could be enroll in college finally. Even though the level of scores is not identical decided and passing …show more content…
What is more, those students did the placement exam before and their test outcome is just above and below the cutline, then they were placed in remediation once. In addition, those students were pursuing academic degrees when first enrolled. So tracking their academic progress for 6 academic years to proof the impact of remediation. According to data collection and analysis, the author named Martorell and Mcfarlin find remediation is not effective for students who scores close to the passing cutoff. In addition, there is no evidence to show remediated students have better labor market outcomes and earn much more money than non-remediated