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Sheila D. Bennett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examined how adult learners who took developmental mathematics in a community college and passed the courses, viewed their self-efficacy and the roles they felt self-efficacy had on their successful completion of mathematics. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 adult learners in two U.S. community colleges.…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community College Students, Nontraditional Students, Success
Soumya Mishra; Elise Swanson; Elif Yucel; Federick Ngo; Tatiana Melguizo; Cheryl Ching – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Beginning in 2019, California community colleges were required to use multiple measures to determine students' placement into initial math courses. Community colleges also created structured BSTEM and liberal arts (SLAM) math pathways beginning in 2017. This contemporaneous implementation could reproduce racialized stratification in math…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Community Colleges, College Mathematics
Kratz, Stephanie – NADE Digest, 2018
The author examines the process for applying for National Association for Development Education (NADE) accreditation. The multi-year process began when the English faculty of the community college she works at reviewed data from the National Community College Benchmark Project. The data showed low success rates and poor persistence from…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Developmental Programs, Developmental Studies Programs, Professional Associations
Eric Scott Coleman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The completion of developmental community college (DCC) courses is a crucial step in community college education to reach the national goal of increasing college success. DCC students are a unique population who require specific strategies such as vocabulary retention (VR) to achieve academic success. Prior research on vocabulary has been limited…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, Vocabulary Development, Retention (Psychology)
Kelly Leigh Birchfield – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In the United States, students often graduate from high school unprepared to succeed in college. In Alabama, fewer than 25% of high school graduates are college ready. Frequently, unprepared students enroll in community colleges, which are tasked to help them transfer to a four-year institution or to enter the workforce. However, students who need…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Developmental Studies Programs, Community Colleges
Visher, Mary; Cerna, Oscar; Diamond, John; Rutschow, Elizabeth Zachry – MDRC, 2017
Faced with many applicants with very low math skills, community colleges are responding with a variety of reforms, including restricting developmental courses to students with high-school-level skills. This brief provides context for the policy changes and describes the alternatives two colleges offer to those who don't make the cut. [This brief…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Mathematics Skills, Skill Development, Low Achievement
Eatman-Skinner, Pamela V. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Post-Traditional Remedial Learner in higher education is a student constituency that has historically been "Hidden in Plain Sight" and strikingly absent from substantive discussions that foreground their lived experiences, relevance, and success in post-secondary education. Though physically present on campus and numerically…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Remedial Programs, Community Colleges, Community College Students
Nicholas F. Shaver – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Students in developmental math classes have been documented to struggle with arithmetic. This dissertation research was a response to the calls in the literature to qualitatively understand what students are learning in a classroom. Number sequences have been well researched to document the connection of student understanding of math in elementary…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Open Enrollment, Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics
Christine G. Mokher; Toby J. Park-Gaghan – Grantee Submission, 2023
In response to concerns about the additional costs and time-to-degree associated with traditional developmental education programs, several states and postsecondary systems have implemented corequisite reform where academically underprepared students take both a developmental education course and college-level course in the same subject area…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
Kimberley M. Donnelly – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2023
Researchers, organizations, companies, non-profits, practitioners, and to some extent, the public, are clamoring for massive reform in developmental coursework in higher education (American Association of Community Colleges, 2018; Edgecombe et al., 2014; Complete College America, 2012). One such reform is the push for integrated reading and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Reading Instruction
Mark Duffy; Kri Burkander – Research for Action, 2023
Drawing on qualitative data collected in a sample of colleges as part of a larger study on the implementation and impact of AB 705 in California, this paper explores the rollout of corequisite reforms, focusing on the use of embedded tutors in introductory math and English courses as a strategy to meet to the needs of students. This paper…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Community Colleges, Educational Policy, Required Courses
Ivan Dole – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Developmental English (DE) has been under fire from critics who think it acts as a barrier rather than as a support to the success of students placing into DE. In Texas, such pressures led to a wave of reforms and changes affecting delivery and structure of DE instruction. This dissertation draws on years of internal data at one community college…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs, Community College Students, Success
Judy M. Endres – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Two-year colleges provide access and opportunity for students with various academic backgrounds to pursue a post-secondary education. While two-year colleges take pride in admitting any student with a high school diploma or equivalent, in recent years colleges have been under scrutiny for low completion and graduation rates. Particular attention…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Two Year Colleges, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation
D. Patrick Saxon; Andi L. Thomas; Autumn B. McKelvey – Learning Assistance Review, 2024
This work examines what appears to be the most effective comprehensive learning support program ever available for underprepared college students. The Accelerated Study in Associate Programs initiative was designed and implemented at the City University of New York Community Colleges. It offers a wide range of integrated college acclimation,…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Student Adjustment
Tuere Anne Marshall – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The growing number of underprepared students entering two- and four-year colleges and universities is the number one challenge currently facing the field of higher education. According to the American Association of Community Colleges, 41% of all undergraduates and 39% of first-time freshman consider community college their "go-to"…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Strategies, Community Colleges, Success