CAPR’s Research
The purpose of CAPR‘s research is to help advance a second generation of developmental education innovation in which colleges and state agencies design, implement, and scale stronger and more comprehensive reforms that improve student outcomes. CAPR is conducting several studies to help provide a foundation for this undertaking: (1) a project on scaling multiple measures assessment and placement in systems that provide corequisite courses, (2) a study of the implementation of corequisite courses in the City University of New York system, and (3) a project to expand the adoption of multiple measures assessment. CAPR has completed several additional studies.
A Brief History of Developmental Research and Reform
Dating back to the 1990s and spanning three somewhat overlapping phases, reforms aspired to first strengthen student supports and then alter developmental education structure and content, before most recently integrating developmental education and comprehensive college reforms. Complementary bodies of research have evaluated the effects and documented the implementation of the interventions of each phase, informing the next generation of reform.