What Math Do Students Need to Know?
What Math Do Students Need to Know?
A Florida Developmental Education Reform Is Leading to Greater Success and Equity
In 2013, the Florida legislature passed a law eliminating placement test requirements for high school students and allowing them to decide whether they wanted to enroll in developmental education courses. This blog post describes research findings related to the reform, which indicate it has improved equity outcomes and accelerated student progress.
Podcast: Transforming Developmental Education to Support Students Throughout College
In this CAPR podcast, CCRC's Nikki Edgecombe, Susan Bickerstaff, and Elizabeth Ganga discuss how colleges could alter their academic and nonacademic supports to more effectively help all students.
Modernizing College Course Placement by Using Multiple Measures
Elizabeth Ganga and Amy Mazzariello | April 2019
This brief, written in conjunction with the Education Commission of the States, describes the evidence for multiple measures placement and offers an overview of the types of multiple measures placement systems used across the country.
Paving the Way to Better Higher Education Outcomes: Findings From the Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness
April 6, 2019 | American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting
In this session at AERA 2019, CAPR researchers presented findings related to the culmination of five years of work on one of the most vexing issues facing higher education: remediation.
Improving Student Placement Using Multiple Measures Assessment
March 25, 2019 | American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) Webinar
This webinar will make the case for implementing multiple measures to assess and place students and describe what institutions should consider when establishing new placement systems.
Evaluation of a Multiple Measures Placement System Using Data Analytics: Early Impact Findings
March 22, 2019 | Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Annual Conference
This session described the broadly positive early results from a study examining the effect of multiple measures of assessment on student course placement and success.
Digging into Data about Students’ Experiences: Deepening Understandings of What Works for Whom
March 18, 2019 | The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine: Increasing Student Success in Developmental Mathematics
In this panel moderated by Susan Bickerstaff, Angela Boatman discussed the differential impacts of developmental math courses on students with varying levels of academic need.
The Current Landscape of Strategies to Improve Developmental Mathematics Education
March 18, 2019 | The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine: Increasing Student Success in Developmental Mathematics
This presentation focused on the range of existing developmental math reforms currently being implemented and tested across colleges and universities in the U.S.
Developmental Education Research from the League Conference: CUNY Start, English Learners, and Teaching
This post describes several developmental education reform efforts underway at colleges around the country. It highlights innovations including CUNY Start and Lesson Study.