November 9, 2019 | Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Conference
In this session, researchers explained why there is a need to change assessment and placement practices and share information on approaches to developing and testing alternative strategies based on data analytics.
Improving developmental courses should be a top priority in higher education, writes Peter Adams, a professor emeritus at the Community College of Baltimore. Here, Adams explains why these courses are so vital and offers suggestions for making them better.
November 16, 2019 | Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 2019
This presentation at ASHE 2019 explored developmental education in broad-access four-year universities and examine how institutions continue to support underprepared students.
In this blog post, Lauren Schudde describes findings from the research brief on math pathways that she coauthored with Akiva Yonah Meiselman and explains why it is imperative for colleges to use an equity lens when considering developmental education reform.
October 10, 2019 | ISETL Conference on Innovative Higher Education Pedagogy
This presentation included findings from two evaluations of programs designed to improve outcomes for students referred to developmental mathematics, in part through conceptually oriented instruction.
Developmental Math Study Shows Promising Results
Lauren Schudde and Akiva Yonah Meiselman | August 2019
This study examines whether students participating in Dana Center Mathematics Pathways (DCMP) developmental courses enroll in and pass college-level math courses at higher rates than students who take traditional developmental math courses.
Remedial Education Fixes Won't Cure Completion Crisis
November 8, 2019 | Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Conference
In this session at APPAM 2019, researchers presented the broadly positive final impact analyses from a study examining the effect of multiple measures of assessment on student course placement and success.
In this blog post, Lindsay Daugherty of RAND Corporation makes the case for a continuous improvement approach to implementing corequisite remediation and describes two ways colleges can adopt such a perspective.