Holding Back/Repeating Courses

Paul Dillon (dillonph who-is-at northcoast.com)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:18:41 -0700

The finding Nate presented strikes a chord. We have found that community
college students repeating English do not do as well overall as the students
taking it for the first time. There is of course a cynical way to look at
this; ie. the students just aren't capable of the material, but this is
highly unlikely. Furthermore, the issue remains that a lot of students
aren't learning basic English reading and writing and that repeating doesn't
improve their chances. In fact it worsens them.

Paul H. Dillon