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Thomas S. Dee; Elizabeth Huffaker – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
The pivotal role of Algebra in the educational trajectories of U.S. students continues to motivate controversial, high-profile policies focused on when students access the course, their classroom peers, and how the course is taught. This random-assignment partnership study examines an innovative district-level reform--the Algebra I…
Descriptors: Algebra, Grade 9, Student Placement, Scores
Snell, Myra – RP Group, 2023
For California's community colleges, fall 2019 marked the deadline for implementing the state's historic developmental education legislation, Assembly Bill 705 (Irwin 2017). AB 705 drove transformative changes in community college math and English programs as colleges implemented research-based placement policies designed to maximize students'…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment Trends, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
Bracco, Kathy Reeves; Barrat, Vanessa Ximenes; Skjoldhorne, Susann; Finkelstein, Neal – WestEd, 2021
This report is part of a series focusing on studies intended to inform the California State University (CSU) system about the implementation of Executive Order 1110 (EO 1110). A major policy adopted by the CSU Chancellor's Office in 2017, EO 1110 requires CSU campuses to eliminate noncredit developmental courses -- often known as…
Descriptors: State Universities, College Readiness, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2022
The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office is pleased to present the 2021 Report on Course Section Offerings and Plans for Future Instruction for California Community Colleges. Pursuant to Senate Bill 129 (Skinner, 2021), California community college districts are required to report on the total number of course sections offered, broken…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Centered Learning, Course Selection (Students), Futures (of Society)
Gao, Niu; Johnson, Hans; Lafortune, Julien; Dalton, Anthony – Public Policy Institute of California, 2019
In an effort to align its college admission requirements with the new K-12 science standards, the University of California (UC) recently proposed to increase its high school science admissions eligibility requirement--known as area D--from two to three years. UC's new policy has the potential of improving student science learning and readiness for…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Universities, College Admission, College Science
Cook, Kevin; Mehlotra, Radhika – Public Policy Institute of California, 2020
This is the appendix for the report, "Expanding Enrollment Capacity at California State University." California State University (CSU) is an engine of economic mobility for Californians, particularly those from historically underrepresented communities. The system's 23 campuses are also vital in helping the state meet labor market…
Descriptors: State Colleges, Enrollment Management, Capacity Building, Educational Resources
Jackson, Jacob – Public Policy Institute of California, 2020
These technical appendixes accompany the study, "Getting to Graduation on Time at California State University." The study uses a combination of campus-wide and student-level data from the California State University (CSU) system to examine the relationship between course-taking and on-time graduation. The first appendix provides…
Descriptors: Time to Degree, Academic Persistence, College Credits, Courses
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2023
Education Code section 76002 requires the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office to prepare and submit a report each year on the number of special part-time and special full-time full-time equivalent students (FTES) claimed by each community college district for the preceding academic year in each of the following class categories: (1)…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Community College Students, Full Time Students, School Districts
Bracco, Kathy Reeves; Barrat, Vanessa; Finkelstein, Neal – WestEd, 2020
WestEd is undertaking a multiyear series of implementation studies intended to inform the California State University (CSU) system about the implementation of Executive Order 1110 (EO 1110). A major policy adopted by the CSU Chancellor's Office in 2017, EO 1110 requires CSU campuses to eliminate non-credit developmental courses in Written…
Descriptors: State Universities, College Readiness, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
Jackson, Jacob – Public Policy Institute of California, 2020
The majority of freshmen entering California State University (CSU) system graduate, but most do not do so within four years. Graduating later has many costs--from the tuition and associated costs for extra years of schooling to forgoing years of entering the workforce--and students from low-income families as well as students of color are more…
Descriptors: Time to Degree, Academic Persistence, College Credits, Courses
Sepanik, Susan; Ratledge, Alyssa; Shane, Andrea; Dixon, Michelle; Martin-Lawrence, Amanda – MDRC, 2022
For the past several years, the California State University (CSU) has been investigating a proposal to add one year of high school quantitative reasoning coursework to the current CSU first-year admissions requirements, often referred to as A-G courses. Qualifying quantitative reasoning courses would include courses in mathematics (area C),…
Descriptors: State Universities, Admission Criteria, Required Courses, College Admission
Gao, Niu; Johnson, Hans; Lafortune, Julien; Dalton, Anthony – Public Policy Institute of California, 2019
This companion document to "New Eligibility Rules for the University of California? The Effects of New Science Requirements" provides the following technical appendices: (1) Transcript Evaluation Service (TES) sample; (2) Cal-PASS Plus (CPP) sample; (3) Additional tables and figures; and (4) Qualitative interview questions. [These…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Universities, College Admission, College Science
Brohawn, Katie; Newell, Mallory; Fagioli, Loris – RP Group, 2021
Colleges across the California Community College (CCC) system have been preparing for changes to their assessment and placement processes associated with the required implementation of Assembly Bill (AB) 705. While many initiatives were already underway to increase students' completion of their education, including Guided Pathways and the Student…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
RP Group, 2024
The California Community Colleges (CCC) College Attendance Survey was designed to understand the factors influencing prospective and previously enrolled community college students' decisions to attend a California community college in fall of 2023. This report summarizes the second administration of this survey in late summer/early fall 2023 and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Attendance, Community Colleges, College Choice
Gao, Niu – Public Policy Institute of California, 2021
This is the technical appendix for the report, "Does Raising High School Graduation Requirements Improve Student Outcomes?" While high school graduation rates in California have increased in the past decade, nearly 40 percent of California high school graduates do not enroll in college; the disruptive impact of the pandemic has…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Graduation Requirements, Enrollment
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