Documenting the Spread of Developmental Education Reform
Dominique Dukes, a research assistant at MDRC, discusses highlights from CAPR's new report on developmental education practices at broad-access two- and four-year colleges across the country.
Assessing College Readiness Using Multiple Measures: Is It Better for Students?
Elisabeth Barnett describes the major takeaways from a newly released CAPR report that examines early outcomes from a study of alternative placement systems at seven community colleges in the State University of New York system.
Early Results from CAPR’s Developmental Education Survey: A Conversation with Elizabeth Zachry Rutschow
Elizabeth Zachry Rutschow discusses findings from a just-released CAPR brief documenting how developmental education programs have evolved over the last several years.
Video: Looking Ahead to the Culmination of CAPR Research in 2019
In this video, CAPR Director Thomas Bailey discusses what we can expect from CAPR in the coming months and how it connects to the larger community college reform movement.
Math for Life: Preliminary Results From the CAPR Study of Dana Center Mathematics Pathways
Elizabeth Zachry Rutschow summarizes findings from a recently released CAPR brief on the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways (DCMP) model, a promising new intervention that involves a revised developmental math course emphasizing statistical and quantitative reasoning skills.
Moving to Multiple Measures
Vikash Reddy and Elisabeth Barnett, who recently authored a CAPR working paper on the use of multiple measures for assessment and placement, discuss data points that can be used in placing students, ways in which these measures can be combined, and more varied ways in which colleges might employ assessment results.
Strategies for Dev Ed: The IES Practice Guide and Promising Reforms
CAPR Director Thomas Bailey writes about the recommendations in the Department of Education's practice guide on developmental education. Of the six recommended practices discussed in the report, the implementation of comprehensive, integrated, and long-lasting support programs was backed by the strongest evidence and had the biggest impacts.
CAPR: Our New Blog
Welcome to the new blog of the Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness (CAPR)! We intend it to be a place where CAPR researchers and our partners can discuss issues around college readiness and developmental education in community colleges and open-access four-year institutions. Find out more about what we have planned.