CAPR Blog
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.
Students Are Ready. We Need to Recognize It.
Placement tests relegate students who could succeed in college-level courses to remedial classes, impeding their progress toward a community college credential. This blog post argues that it's time to recognize the hard work incoming students have already put in and place everyone in college-level courses.
Reforming Developmental Education Reforms
To close persistent racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps, structural changes to developmental education should be combined with strategies that address engagement between students and their instructors.
California’s AB 705 Narrowed Equity Gaps in Gateway Math and English, but There’s More Work to Do
Access to gateway courses for historically underrepresented students increased dramatically following California's implementation of AB 705, but these students' completion rates still lag behind their peers'.