It’s too bad the UC Academic Senate STTF report wasn’t available to the authors.
I wonder what 4 year colleges the 13.9% of students in this sample who had under a 2.0 HSGPA went to, or the 30.7% of students who had below an 18 on the ACT? (There is also have a typo on Table 2…assuming the ACT column labeled ‘14-16’ should be ‘14-15’)
There are so many questions I have with their methodologies…including considering all courses in unweighted GPAs, not just core. I expect there would be huge variability across schools (even in a school system that is rated on many measures as ‘low performing’) in this measure…perhaps enough to affect the outcomes. My point is comparing students who have 16-20 core courses, with those who might have far fewer, could skew results.