Developmental Education Reform Improved Passing Rates
Developmental Education Reform Improved Passing Rates
CAPR Research Extended with Additional Grants from IES, Other Funders
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and other funders have awarded additional grants to extend the center through at least 2023.
SUNY Colleges Are Using Homegrown Multiple Measures Systems to Place Students During the Pandemic
Here, CAPR's Elisabeth Barnett explains how several SUNY community colleges adapted their approaches to assessment and placement for students entering college in fall 2020 to account for limitations posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Through the Looking Glass
In this essay, CCRC's Maggie P. Fay considers Varsity Blues, community colleges, and the unequal application of academic standards.
Multiple Measures Lead to Better Outcomes
Multiple Measures Lead to Better Outcomes
Source: Community College Daily
Who Should Take College-Level Courses? Impact Findings From an Evaluation of a Multiple Measures Assessment Strategy
By Elisabeth A. Barnett, Elizabeth Kopko, Dan Cullinan, and Clive R. Belfield | October 2020
This report describes impact findings from an evaluation of multiple measures assessment and placement at seven State University of New York (SUNY) community colleges.
Study Finds More ‘Remedial’ Students Should Take College-Level Courses
A new CAPR study found that combining standardized placement test results with high school GPA and other measures—called multiple measures assessment—allowed more students to go straight into college-level courses, and researchers found that those students did better than similar students left behind.
Making Sense of Developmental Education Reform: What Does the Evidence Tell Us, and What Does It Mean for Practice?
November 12, 2020 | Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Conference
This roundtable discussion will grapple with the challenges of developmental education reform, offering perspectives on what the field has tried and learned to date, and where evidence is lacking.
Evaluation of a Multiple Measures Placement System Using Data Analytics
August 17, 2020 | Strong Start to Finish August 2020 Webinar
In this webinar session, researchers from CCRC and CAPR presented the rationale for using multiple measures assessment for placement, options for system design, and the results of CAPR research with SUNY colleges.
What Does the Research Say about Effective Placement?
July 29, 2020 | Maryland Placement Policies Community of Practice Virtual Kickoff Meeting
CAPR's Elisabeth Barnett will describe the reasons to consider the use of multiple measures assessment (MMA) for placement and how an MMA system can be structured.