An argument in favor of affirmative action in college admissions is that it identifies students with much potential but weak preparation, suggesting recipients should catch up to their more-prepared counterparts over time.
Because of weak preparation in mathematics, she is struggling in her math and physics classes.
In their study of a BIO2010-inspired introducoursecourse, Matthews et al. (2009) found that some of their students bring "strong beliefs about the nature of mathematics and science from secondary school," noting that many students with weak preparation did not see how the mathematics connected to biology or to real-life issues.
It is particularly notable that these top two scores, 54 and 57, were obtained in courses at comprehensive universities that have students with highly variable and relatively weak preparations and where the documented improvement in student outcomes achieved (Coletta, 2013; Adams et al., 2014) due to these multiyear efforts is spectacular.
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Although there has been much hand-wringing over the weak academic preparation of many high school graduates, many of the students caught in the remedial net in January at CUNY were not entering freshmen.
So, she said, the lack of access to supermarket prices and weak food-preparation skills, combined with falling incomes, have resulted in a growing demand for the food banks and the soup kitchens and pantries they supply.
This quandary occurs as many top recruits seem less sentimental about tradition and more interested in positioning themselves for big money in the N.F.L. "The balance of power will shift to universities that have the lowest resistance to taking the top athletes with weaker academic preparation," said Michael Oriard, an English professor at Oregon State and a former Notre Dame captain.
It may be that for associates degrees, which are less selective (i.e., accept applicants with weaker academic preparation), advanced mathematics and science coursework will be less critical.
However, in a subsequent follow-up study, Carrell et al. (2013) deliberately assigned students to control and treatment groups, with the treatment groups aimed at maximizing the academic success of students arriving with the weakest academic preparation by pairing them with stronger peers.
