Press Releases
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.
Dana Center Math Pathways Boosts Rates of Completion of Developmental Math and of College-Level Math Courses
A new CAPR report examines how four Texas community colleges implemented Dana Center Mathematics Pathways (DCMP) and the impact of DCMP on student outcomes over as many as four semesters. Costs of the initiative and student perspectives are also discussed.
National Survey of Two- and Four-Year Colleges Shows Rise in Developmental Education Reform, Yet New Practices Typically Reach Less Than Half of Students
A new CAPR report describes findings from a national survey of two- and four-year colleges. Researchers found developmental education reform has accelerated, with a notable 30-percentage-point increase in the use of alternative assessment measures (like grade point averages), rather than only on standardized tests.
Alternative to Placement Tests Allows More Community College Students to Take and Pass College-Level Math and English
A new CAPR report describes early findings from the center's study of multiple measures placement systems at seven State University of New York community colleges.
Alternatives to Algebra Help More Students Pass College Math
Interim findings from a CAPR study of the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways (DCMP) model at four community colleges in Texas show that the reform is helping more students complete their remedial and college-level math requirements more quickly while learning math that will be useful throughout their lives and careers.
Moving Beyond the Placement Test: Multiple Measures Assessment
In a one-hour webinar, Elisabeth A. Barnett from CCRC and Rashida Welbeck from MDRC described what they have learned about multiple measures assessment through an exploration of college practices in four Midwestern states.
CAPR Holds Second Annual Meeting
The Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness (CAPR) held its second annual meeting on March 8, 2016. CAPR researchers met with advisory board members, key personnel from CAPR research sites, and other national experts on remediation to discuss evolving changes in developmental education, the current state of research knowledge about innovative practices to improve outcomes for underprepared students, and the progress of current CAPR projects.
Bailey and Richburg-Hayes at White House for College Readiness Event and Launch of CAPR
On August 12, CCRC’s Thomas Bailey and MDRC's Lashawn Richburg-Hayes joined U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, along with White House Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Munoz and other administration officials, to speak at a White House meeting focused on best practices in college remediation.
CCRC and MDRC Receive $10 Million Federal Grant to Conduct Research on Innovative Approaches to Remedial Education
The Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University, in collaboration with social policy research organization MDRC and scholars at Stanford, U.C. Davis, and Vanderbilt, has been awarded a five-year grant of $9,951,362 from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to create a center focused on rigorously assessing the effects of new approaches to remedial assessment, placement, and instruction.