Presenter: Madeline Marcotte Rolston

Audience: Faculty, Staff, Administrators

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Learning Goals

Participants will learn the findings from my dissertation study, a longitudinal phenomenological study of remedial placement structures at an urban community college. which analyzed the experiences of 19 developmental students over one and a half semesters via interview data. The study also includes a discourse analysis of the college's website pages on placement.

• Introduction to phenomenology and discourse analysis
• Increased understanding of how placement processes look and feel to students
• Increased understanding of the effects of social pain on student learning behavior

Seminar Description

This seminar will present findings from a phenomenological study that explored both the students’ lived experiences of placement processes at an urban community college and their consciousness of those experiences. By applying phenomenological methodology within an engaged inquiry framework, this study integrated multiple perspectives into a narrative thread to make sense of students’ experiences with placement and the prospect of remediation. This seminar will explore how student interpretation of remediation is socially constructed and how that interpretation affects student engagement with remedial structures. Seminar participants will explore the implications of the findings for both placement policy and developmental pedagogy.