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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
Stahl, Norman A.; Armstrong, Sonya L. – College Teaching, 2022
Recent reform efforts in developmental education have led to model-development of college literacy instruction without being informed by institution-specific investigations of whether, how, and to what extent new models align with the literacy rigors of next-level courses across pathways. Such work is essential to informing literacy programming at…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Models, Literacy Education, Curriculum Evaluation
S. Büchele; S. Berndt; A. Felix – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Most studies on remedial courses are based on their mandatory attendance. However, changes may have occurred in the attendance policy of developmental math courses since the state of Florida decided to overcome obligatory math remediation for unprepared students. Consequently, researchers have recently started focusing on voluntary math remedial…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Remedial Instruction, Student Participation, Foreign Countries
Glass, Katy; Suh, Emily K.; Posey, Britt; Owens, Sam – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2022
The purpose of this article is to explore SI's alignment to theories of adult learning and development which are the underpinnings of developmental education. We begin by identifying adult learning and development theories that have influenced the field of developmental education and then examine descriptions of SI in the literature to explore…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Learning Theories, Supplementary Education, Developmental Studies Programs
Douglas, Alison M. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2022
This critical reflective essay highlights three significant moments in one White woman's ongoing efforts to move beyond performative equity work. Through this narrative, the author sheds light on the unspoken rules of Whiteness that limited her engagement with race, reflecting on ways that colorblind etiquette prevented her from seeing her Black…
Descriptors: Whites, Racial Attitudes, Equal Education, Literacy
Bridgette Simelane; Johann Engelbrecht – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2024
This study focuses on students who are registered for the University of Pretoria's academic development programme, the Four-year Programme (FYP). The programme was introduced as a gateway for students who are under-prepared but have the potential to succeed. This programme helps them to then continue their studies in mainstream science programmes.…
Descriptors: College Students, College Programs, Developmental Studies Programs, Readiness
Jennifer Gunn – English in Texas, 2024
This paper considers the impact of technological processes on human thought, specifically the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on writing instruction. The main purpose of this paper is to present instructional considerations that will elevate human voice and reduce student temptations to turn to AI unreasonably to produce a piece of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Writing Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs
Sam Owens; Emily K. Suh – Journal of School Leadership, 2024
Inclusion is constantly referenced in educational institutions' mission and values statements. Despite their purpose of guiding the institution, these brief paragraphs usually create more questions than answers regarding the who, what, and how of inclusion work. This article applies a queered critical discourse studies lens to a manifest content…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Postsecondary Education, Developmental Studies Programs, Power Structure
Ryan S. Wells; Ling Chen – Educational Policy, 2025
As postsecondary developmental education policy reforms are implemented, increased attention must be given to students with learning and attention disabilities. The purpose of this study was to bring these students into the conversation, by examining their representation in developmental education broadly, as well the effect of this intervention…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Developmental Studies Programs, Disproportionate Representation
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
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
Kathy Luckett – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2025
Motivated by critiques from black students during the protests (2015-2016), I trace continuities between the racialised discourses and knowledge regimes that justified colonial education policies and that of Education Development at a historically white South African university. First, I show how the University of Cape Town's Humanities Education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Policy, Colonialism
Alkhateeb, Haitham M. – PRIMUS, 2022
Developmental mathematics is often a barrier to student progress and success in college. As a result and for this reason, this research study describes the redesign of a developmental mathematics course at a U.S. East Coast university to decrease the amount of time it takes for students to complete their developmental requirement and increase the…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Undergraduate Students, Remedial Mathematics, Program Development
Shetron, Tamara Harper; Lussier, Kristie O'Donnell – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2022
Tableau Theatre is an instructional method that fulfills two of the most timely needs in developmental education today: enhancing student motivation and providing engaging learning activities. As a form of highly contextualized learning, the use of total body engagement stimulates brain activity, a prerequisite for learning and allows space for a…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Drama