CAPR Blog
Bringing Equity Into College Placement Reforms
In this blog post, CAPR researchers discuss a new brief that looks at equity in placement reforms and provides strategies institutions can use to drive more equitable outcomes for students.
The National Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education: Prioritizing Equity for Our Students
This blog post discusses the efforts that the National Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education 2022 took to center equity, students, and data in conference proposals and proceedings.
Exploring Informed Self-Placement
This blog post provides an overview of two new CAPR briefs looking at informed self-placement (ISP), a placement system which focuses on educating students about a college’s curriculum and available courses and then asks them to reflect on their skills and experiences before deciding their own placement.
Lessons from the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways Long-Term Follow-Up Study
This blog post summarizes a new CAPR brief looking at the findings for students three years after they started participating in an early version of the Dana Center Math Pathways (DCMP) program.
Developmental Mathematics Reforms Can Be Enhanced by Improved Teaching: A New Study Shows How Lesson Study Can Help
There is an urgent need to support faculty to meaningfully change their teaching practice, but few professional development models in higher education have been shown to successfully do so. To fill the gap, this post describes efforts to adapt lesson study, a professional development approach used in K-12, for use in developmental mathematics in college.
CAPR 2.0: The Next Generation of Developmental Education Reform and Research
This blog post looks back at the first six years of CAPR's research and describes what's next for the center, including a suite of new projects and research questions focused on which developmental education reforms, policies, and practices work for whom.