McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) launched a new remediation
tool that places students in the college math course best suited to their
abilities. The ALEKS Placement, Preparation, and Learning tool is the first original
product to be produced from the MHE acquisition of ALEKS Corp., the web-based
tutoring and assessment program.
“A majority of kids that go into community colleges
drop out,” said Buzz Waterhouse, CEO of MHE, at the Educause 2013 conference in Anaheim, CA. “Most students that go into community college need remediation
and there are studies that show the vast majority of them are placed in the
wrong remedial classes, courses that are more advanced than they are ready
for.”
A 2012 report from Complete College America found that just 22.3% of remedial students finish
remediation classes and more than half the students in two-year colleges are
placed in the wrong remedial courses.
ALEKS Placement is an online tool designed to help students
move into credit math courses quickly through a personalized study plan. It
uses open-response questions instead of multiple-choice to assess a student’s
knowledge level and delivers targeted learning through a six-week module.
