Continued Progress in Increasing Pass Rate

Starting in spring 2012, the college's researchers were asked to conduct a study in which they used the data from the previous fall to find the impact of ESL tutoring on credit students' success. A look at the analysts' findings from 2012 to 2014 shows students have a greater probability of passing a course when they take advantage of the services rendered by the ESL Tutoring Center located in A-13. For fall 2013, "six classes each had at least 10 students who named the class as being the one that brought them to Rm# A-13 for one or more of their ESL Tutoring visits. In each of those cases, the pass rate for A-13 users surpassed that of their non-user counterparts," according to Dick Borden, a Palomar researcher who has helped with the research project three years in a row.

A visual difference is evident from the same statistics.