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EAB, 2025
In Higher Education today, the current cohort that we are seeing in college are being impacted due to a variety of reasons but one stated is the lack of assessment testing potentially due to the pandemic. Even though five years have passed with the pandemic, higher education institutions are still seeing barriers that are affecting student success.
"The number of first-year students in remedial math courses at the university surged to 390 in fall 2022, up from 32 students in fall 2020. The remedial math course was designed in 2016 and only addressed missing high school math knowledge, but instructors quickly realized that many of their students had knowledge gaps that went back to middle or elementary school, the report states. For fall 2024, UC San Diego revamped its remedial math course to address middle school math gaps and introduced an additional remedial course to cover high school math. In fall 2025, 921 students enrolled in one of these two courses—11.8 percent of the incoming class."
“This deterioration coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on education, the elimination of standardized testing, grade inflation, and the expansion of admissions from under-resourced high schools,” the report states. “The combination of these factors has produced an incoming class increasingly unprepared for the quantitative and analytical rigor expected at UC San Diego.” Inside Higher Education, 2025"
In this video, see the engagement and curiosity from TEDx presenter, Dan Finkel regarding teaching math.
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