A Study on American Tuition Education Reform to Promote Educational Equity
AUTHORS
Mohammad Sadegh Hossain,University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Saeed Kranakis,University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
ABSTRACT
In the past few years, follow-up research has been conducted on the reform of remedial education in Florida. The phased results were announced in early 2019 and attracted attention. Based on the results of this phase, this paper will raise research questions, and then briefly introduce various factors that may affect the success of college students in the remedial education model and Florida reforms, describe the research data in detail, and define research samples to answer the research questions. Explain the concept of Interrupted Time Series and the model used to analyze the comparison of the results of college students before and after the remedial education reform. Finally, this article provides an overall descriptive analysis of learning outcomes before and after the remedial education reform and analysis of ethnic differences. At the same time, a regression adjustment model that can make a stronger potential causal analysis is used to summarize student learning outcomes.
KEYWORDS
Remedial education, SB1720 policy, Education equity, Analysis of racial differences, Regression adjustment model
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