نبذة مختصرة : The Iowa Department of Education (Department) collects information on developmental education (dev. ed.) from Iowa's 15 community colleges on an annual basis. Dev. ed. courses are offered in mathematics, reading, writing, English as a Second Language (ESL), and in other subject areas, such as financial literacy and skill building. These credits do not count toward degrees, but typically must be completed by students who are assessed as needing additional academic preparation before advancing to transfer-level courses. Dev. ed. is important to the mission of the comprehensive community college and is a critical factor in meeting the state's Future Ready Iowa (FRI) goal, which calls for 70 percent of Iowans to have education or training beyond high school by 2025. Because effective dev. ed. programs are essential to maintaining Iowa's community college commitment to open-access, highquality education for all, it is necessary to understand the students served and to analyze the data regarding their success. This report provides data on student demographics, course enrollment, credit hours taken, and success metrics as reported by colleges in the Department's Management Information System (MIS) by fiscal year (FY) for student data before 2016-17, and academic year (AY) for student data starting in 2016-17. In this report, first-time in college (FTIC), non-high school students are followed from their cohort years 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-2020 to establish both dev. ed. statistics and outcome trends. This report also shares course success statistics such as persistence and retention data for all cohorts, as well as graduation and transfer "success" outcomes for the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 cohorts. Future reports will include these outcome metrics for additional cohorts once they have been tracked for three full years. [For the 2020 report, see ED617622.]
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