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Adrian Novio – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Developmental math courses have long been considered a barrier for students (Benken et al., 2015), especially for minority and low-income students, who are enrolled in developmental courses disproportionately to their peers (Chen, 2016). Research has shown that various redesign efforts (e.g., multiple measures placement, corequisite support,…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Academic Achievement, Program Design
Paula Dean Fuller – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Developmental Education reform has been a vital topic in the field of higher education for decades. There have been several initiatives to further engage under-prepared college students and move them through gateway courses like freshman-level English and Math. One of the more emergent instructional models is referred to as co-requisite…
Descriptors: Program Design, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Higher Education
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Xiaodan Hu; Benjamin Creed – Innovative Higher Education, 2025
In 2016, Illinois initiated a statewide transitional math program to support students to be academically ready in college-level math before graduating from high school. This qualitative study focuses on the perspective of community college faculty and administrators on the statewide implementation of transitional math programs. We find that a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Readiness, Transitional Programs, College Mathematics
Justina M. Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to implement a redesign of developmental education at Delaware Technical Community College and to evaluate its effectiveness in improving overall First Time Ever in College (FTEIC) student success through gateway English and math completion, fall-to-fall persistence, and narrowing or closing of opportunity gaps…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Academic Achievement
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Colombari, Ruggero; Neirotti, Paolo – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
The digitalization of operations is disrupting frontline technical jobs, entailing new competency needs currently not being met by upper secondary education and corporate training programs. To discuss how technical universities can help bridge the resulting "middle-skills gap" without incurring an unwarranted academization of these…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving, Foreign Countries, Competency Based Education
Bickerstaff, Susan; Beal, Katie; Raufman, Julia; Lewy, Erika B.; Slaughter, Austin – Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, 2022
Over the past decade, policymakers, educators, and administrators in community colleges and other broad-access postsecondary institutions have focused on reforming developmental education practices, including how students are assessed as needing additional academic support. Concurrent with widespread changes in practice, researchers have engaged…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Evidence Based Practice