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Transitional Math

A Brief Update �After 3 Years �of Implementation

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Why Take Transitional Math?

  • “C” or better counts as placement into certain college-level math courses at any IL Community College and some 4-year Universities in IL
  • Three different courses
    • Transition to College Algebra (TCA)
    • Transition to Quantitative Literacy and Statistics (TQLS)
    • Transition to Technical Math (TTM)

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TM Enrollments in D509

  • U46 (TCA, TQLS, TTM)
  • D300 and D303 (TCA, TQLS)
  • D301 (TCA)

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2019-2020

2020-2021

2021-2022

Total

TCA

338

258

390

986

TQLS

301

645

761

1,707

TTM

67

86

153

306

Total

706

989

1,304

2,999

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TM Success Rates (“C or better”)

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2019-2020

TCA

TQLS

TTM

U46

55%

57%

54%

D300

82%

73%

N/A

D301

79%

N/A

N/A

D303

94%

N/A

N/A

2020-2021

TCA

TQLS

TTM

U46

38%

50%

54%

D300

63%

48%

N/A

D301

53%

N/A

N/A

D303

93%

87%

N/A

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TM Success Rates Bottom Line:

First two years of TM yielded a �60% success rate of TM courses �(1014 students out of 1695)

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  • 279 of the 1014 successful TM completers from the first two years of TM implementation have come to ECC and enrolled in a math course from SP20 -FA21 (still waiting on SP22 data)
  • We’ve collected ECC course success data for SP20 through SP21 (still waiting on FA21 and SP22 data)

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ECC Course Success Rates

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  • MTH 112: 53% success rate for TM students (40)
    • Non-TM MTH 112 success rate: 63%�
  • MTH 102: 62% success rate for TM students (58)
    • Non-TM MTH 102 success rate: 62%
    • 77% success rate for TCA students (35)
    • 39% success rate for TQLS students (23)

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ECC Course Success Rates

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  • MTH 104, 107, 110, 120, 114 all had too small of sample sizes to make any conclusions�
  • Some TM students are coming to ECC and taking developmental courses (19)
    • 84% success rate!
    • Possible reasons for this
      • Timing of student transcripts sent
      • Students unaware of transitional course implications

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