More Community Colleges Using Multiple Measures for Readiness
More Community Colleges Using Multiple Measures for Readiness
Early Findings from a National Survey of Developmental Education Practices
By Elizabeth Zachry Rutschow and Alexander K. Mayer | February 2018
This brief presents early findings from CAPR’s nationally representative survey of nearly 1,000 open-access and nonselective postsecondary institutions.
Reshaping the College Transition: Reducing Remediation Through HS Transition Courses
March 20, 2018 | League for Innovation in the Community College Annual Conference
This session shared information about where senior year transition courses exist, their designs, and the partnerships and policy contexts that surround them.
Student Assessment and Placement Systems: Initial Outcomes From an RCT
March 20, 2018 | League for Innovation in the Community College Annual Conference
This presentation discussed the need to change assessment and placement practices, shared information on an alternative strategy based on data analytics, and reported initial results from a randomized control trial testing this alternative mechanism.
Advances in Educating Underprepared College Students
February 26, 2018 | Advances in Educating Underprepared College Students
In this presentation, panelists discussed current research aimed at helping to inform advances in developmental education at community colleges
How to Help Students Avoid the Remedial Ed Trap
How to Help Students Avoid the Remedial Ed Trap
Source: The Hechinger Report
Scaling Effective Strategies: Tradeoffs, Challenges, and Opportunities
February 22, 2018 | Achieving the Dream Annual Institute on Student Success
In this presentation, panelists discussed several innovative intervention strategies and present exciting new research findings for these strategies and discussed tradeoffs and opportunities for scaling.
Developmental Education: An Introduction for Policymakers
By Elizabeth Ganga, Amy Mazzariello, and Nikki Edgecombe | February 2018
This brief, written in collaboration with the Education Commission of the States, discusses the importance of and challenges surrounding developmental education and suggests ways in which policymakers can address these challenges.
Emerging Student Assessment and Placement Systems
February 22, 2018 | Achieving the Dream Annual Institute on Student Success
In this presentation, the presenters explained why there is a need to change assessment and placement practices, and shared information on approaches to developing and testing alternative strategies based on data analytics.
Technology Use in Developmental Education: Experiences, Challenges, and Decision Making
February 22, 2018 | National Association for Developmental Education (NADE)
In this presentation, participants shared research findings about how and why technology has been used in developmental education instruction and student support and discussed challenges encountered by institutions in implementing technology in developmental education.