Rebecca Natow, Vikash Reddy, and Markeisha Grant provide a window into the findings from their recent CAPR working paper, How and Why Higher Education Institutions Use Technology in Developmental Education Programming. They describe the types of technology institutions use in developmental education, common challenges they encounter, and recommendations for improving the use of technology.
With colleges around the country experimenting with reforms to developmental education, researchers are partnering with them to measure the effect of the changes. Today, we're rounding up some recent studies of developmental ed reforms, including Florida’s dramatic overhaul from 2013, California’s growing movement to reform placement and developmental pathways, and Virginia and North Carolina’s efforts to combine developmental reading and writing into one literacy-reinforcing discipline.
Erin Whinnery, a policy researcher for Education Commission of the States, reviews recent state legislative action regarding developmental education in three broad areas: delivery and governance, accountability and reporting, and financing and affordability.
November 10, 2017 | American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) Annual Conference
Panelists presented four studies of the Dana Center Math Pathways (DCMP) initiative.
November 2–4, 2017 | American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) 2017 Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference
This poster highlighted the successes and challenges of implementing classroom, institutional, and state policy reforms to support the development of multiple math pathways, drawing on CAPR's research on the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways (DCMP).
October 11, 2017 | Strengthening Student Success Conference
In this session, representatives from the Charles A. Dana Center, MDRC, and the California Acceleration Project (CAP) discussed successes and challenges of implementing classroom, institutional, and state policy reforms to support the development of multiple math pathways.
By Rebecca Natow, Vikash Reddy, and Markeisha Grant | September 2017
Drawing from semi-structured interviews with key personnel at several colleges, this paper explores how technology is integrated into developmental education programming, what challenges institutions have encountered relating to the technology, and what considerations institutional leaders take into account when deciding whether and how to integrate technology in developmental education. A version of this paper was published in the Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
October 10, 2017 | National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) National Conference
In this session, presenters discussed alternative placement mechanisms that are increasingly used in colleges and dual/concurrent enrollment programs.