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Direct linkXiaodan 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
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
Download full textHuang, Melrose; Norman, Jon; Yamada, Hiroyuki – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2018
Since 2011, Statway®, an alternative pathway to completing college-level developmental mathematics, has evolved from a two-semester sequence into a single-semester course. As of the 2016-2017 academic year, five institutions have offered an accelerated one-term version of Statway. This paper describes why these colleges chose to implement…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics, College Mathematics, Statistics
Edwards, Ann R.; Sandoval, Carlos; McNamara, Haley – Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
More than 60% of the nation's 14 million community college students are required to complete at least one developmental mathematics class before enrolling in college-credit courses; however, 80% of them do not successfully complete any college-level mathematics course within 3 years. To address this problem, the Community College Pathways…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Mathematics Teachers, Developmental Studies Programs
Wathington, Heather D.; Barnett, Elisabeth A.; Fay, Maggie P.; Mitchell, Claire; Pretlow, Joshua; Bork, Rachel Hare – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2012
The authors investigated the design and implementation of the capstone courses that are part of Virginia's College and Career Readiness Initiative. Based on a set of performance expectations for college readiness, two capstone courses--one in English and one in mathematics--were developed to help support high school juniors and seniors who intend…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Implementation, Curriculum, Course Content
Alfeld, Corinne; Bhattacharya, Sharika – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2012
This study uses a mixed methods approach to examine a new type of curriculum configuration that supports students' transitions to college: career technical programs of study (POS). Interview and survey data were collected from a college and its feeder high schools in each of three well-established ("mature") sites in geographically…
Descriptors: Student Records, Student Attitudes, Career Guidance, Transitional Programs
Taylor, J. L.; Harmon, T. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2010
This report provides a summary of major results of the Illinois Bridge Status Survey, administered online between April and June 2010. The purpose of the survey was to understand the extent to which bridge programs are being implemented in Illinois, as well as to build an online directory of bridge programs. Bridge programs are an emerging…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Developmental Studies Programs, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation
Blanco, Cheryl D. – Pathways to College Network, 2005
Student financial assistance has long been a means to promote access to postsecondary education and attainment of college degrees. Numerous types of financial aid programs have proliferated over the years, including a relatively new concept that specifically targets high-risk, low-income students, focusing not just on getting them to go to college…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, College Preparation, Student Financial Aid, Federal Programs
