Research on developmental education reform often provides evidence on the efficacy and cost of an intervention, but leaves out what revenue could be generated through increased student retention and degree attainment. MDRC's new Intervention Return on Investment tool can help college leaders estimate the costs and revenues associated with reform.
In this blog, three state leaders discuss Arkansas’s adoption and scaling of multiple measures assessment to determine which students are ready for college-level courses. Their stories provide informative examples for other states that are considering doing the same.
In 2017, Arkansas changed its policy to allow colleges to place new students into developmental or college-level math and English using multiple measures assessment. This Q&A discusses how research influenced a 2023 update to the guidance.
The second post in a series on multiple measures assessment (MMA) in a corequisite remediation context, this blog post explores survey results that provide the first update on the increased reach of major developmental education reforms since 2016.
In a recent webinar, Elizabeth Kopko and Susan Sepanik of CAPR, along with Sharon Fox of NorthWest Arkansas Community College and Nancy Shapiro of the University System of Maryland, discussed the long-term results of two studies on developmental education reforms and how colleges and systems have changed their policies and practices in response to the findings.
In this podcast discussion with CCRC’s Elizabeth Ganga, CCRC and CAPR researchers Elizabeth Kopko and Hollie Daniels explain what they found when they looked at the data after nine semesters and what educators and policymakers should take from the research.
Both corequisite remediation and Multiple Measures Assessment (MMA) have been shown to get more students into college-level courses more quickly and to help students pass those courses. But what happens when colleges use corequisites and MMA together? A new CAPR study investigates how placement recommendations using high school GPA and other measures can improve student success in college-level courses.
In this blog post, CAPR researchers discuss a new brief that looks at equity in placement reforms and provides strategies institutions can use to drive more equitable outcomes for students.
This blog post provides an overview of two new CAPR briefs looking at informed self-placement (ISP), a placement system which focuses on educating students about a college’s curriculum and available courses and then asks them to reflect on their skills and experiences before deciding their own placement.
This blog post looks back at the first six years of CAPR's research and describes what's next for the center, including a suite of new projects and research questions focused on which developmental education reforms, policies, and practices work for whom.