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ÌýÌý Ìý ÌýALEKS PPL Support
ÌýÌý Ìý ÌýALEKS PPL Support
ALEKS PPL empowers ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ to be prepared and successful in their proper math course, expediting their path to completion.
Evaluating Math Placement
Best Practices
A studentʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ™s path to graduation begin with accurate course placement. How can institutions design a math placement approach that supports student retention, promotes equity, and creates value? This whitepaper evaluates emerging placement initiatives and their effectiveness in expediting degree completion.
Efficacy and Case Studies
Iowa Central Community College
In the summer of 2014, Iowa Central Community College joined a statewide pilot project with the ALEKS Team to implement ALEKS PPL for math placement. Now, nearly a decade later, they continue to see success in this post-COVID landscape with a 70% pass rate in Calculus and a significant reduction of ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ in Developmental Math courses due to improved curriculum design.Ìý
Waukesha County Technical CollegeÌý
Retention and student success are top priorities at WCTC. ALEKS PPL was initially implemented to ensure accurate placement, particularly in Calculus, but also helped reduce time spent in unnecessary prerequisite courses and accelerate time to graduation.
Utah Valley University
ALEKS PPL has saved ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ approximatelyÌý$1,000,000Ìýin tuition by helping them to skip math courses that would otherwise have impeded their academic track.
UVU uses ALEKS PPL for all ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ and also offers a guided placement preparation 1 credit hour course taught by full-time faculty.
Iowa Central Community College
Iowa Central increases STEM enrollments byÌý21%Ìýand also sees a correlation to overall course success rates with ALEKS PPL.
Prior to ALEKS PPL, College Algebra courses had a success rate ofÌý34%Ìýand now with the accuracy of PPL, success rates are atÌý74%. Non-traditional ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ are also succeeding at higher rates.
University of Kentucky
The Prep and Learning Modules in ALEKS PPL help ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ accelerate their course sequence where onlyÌý11%Ìýof ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ need developmental math, compared toÌý20%Ìýprior.
Harper College
Harper ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ using ALEKS PPL areÌý22.5%Ìýmore likely to return next term.
Oklahoma State University
Overall DFW rates decrease byÌý15%Ìýafter implementing PPL and byÌý10%Ìýfor Calculus.Ìý
Oklahoma State has also used the diagnostics to inform which topics are critical to review in Calculus as well.
California State Univ - Long Beach
With ALEKS PPL, Early Start Math ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ save at least one semester of developmental math and increase throughput byÌý37.5%.
City College of San Francisco
In 2017, Latinx Summer Bridge ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ using PPL beat the average course success rate for new ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ and had aÌý12%Ìýincrease in success rates compared to all Latinx ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ in Math.
Research and Efficacy
Independent research validates the mission of ALEKS PPL to improve student success in math and beyond.
University of Illinois
ALEKS PPL scores are a statistically significant measure of course success at University of Illinois.
A re-designed approach to placing ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ in Calculus reduces failure and withdrawal rates dramatically for two consistent years, and benefits courses campus-wide that rely heavily on PreCalculus and Calculus.
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Ahlgren, A., and Harper, M. 2011.ÌýAssessment and Placement through Calculus I at the University of Illinois.ÌýNotices of the American Mathematical Society, 58, 1460ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ“1461.
Ahlgren, A., and Harper, M. 2013.ÌýALEKS-based Placement at the University of Illinois.ÌýPages 51ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ“68 of: Falmagne, J.-Cl., Albert, D., Doble, C.W., Eppstein, D., and Hu, X. (eds), Knowledge Spaces: Applications in Education. Berlin: Springer.
Marc Harper, Alison Ahlgren Reddy.Ìý. PRIMUS, August 2013
Harper College
Students who work in PPL's prep and learning module are 19% more likely to successfully pass college-level math.
University of California System
With PPL, UC Santa Cruz sees more ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ taking advanced math classes while maintaining course success rates 84% of ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ who re-take the PPL assessment improve their placement by at least one course.
San Diego State Univ
82% of ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ placed into Calculus earn an A or B.
StudentsʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ™ scores on the PPL assessment correlate closely with their grades in Calculus. A one-point increase on the PPL assessment improves ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ™ likelihood of receiving an A in Calculus by two percentage points.
Predictors of Student Success in Calculus and Precalculus at SDSU
Michael E. OʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ™Sullivan, Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Janet Bowers, Director, Mathematics Learning Center
University of Colorado-Boulder
Incorporating PPL in a precalculus for engineers course increases the percentage of ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ passing with A's and B's by 10 percentage points.
Additionally, ʯÁñÊÓƵ»ÆÉ«°æ who used PPL scored 5% higher on a Calculus exam in the following term.
Prof. Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder
Dr. Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder
Dr. Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder
Dr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder
Read the UC- Boulder paper