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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)
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
Joyce A. Campbell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed in this study was that many students in DE have a decrease in academic success and, as a result, never make it to college-level courses nor complete a program and earn a degree, leading to a decrease in academic success. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to provide insight on historically black colleges…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Remedial Programs, Academic Achievement
Georgann Nedwell – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Developmental education has existed as a thread of American higher education since the founding of Harvard College in 1636, when tutors provided supplemental Latin programming for underprepared students. In recent years, developmental education is most prominent at community colleges: ninety-eight percent of the colleges offer some form of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Teacher Motivation, Developmental Studies Programs
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
Ryder, Mary Monica – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As online education gains popularity among both learners and postsecondary institutions, there is a movement toward identifying ways to promote student success. Over half of all higher education institutions offer online classes, due in part to the ease of offering and scheduling (Hoffman, 2006); educators seek ways to identify any demographic or…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, College Mathematics
Kauscha M. Howard – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research attempted to determine whether faculty instructors' employment status played a role in the success of students who are not college ready. The purpose of this study was to determine whether developmental English faculty instructors' employment status had an effect on grades in a freshman composition course (English 101) among…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, English, College Faculty, Employment Level
Taiwana Monique Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to describe how first-year college students describe the academic benefits and effectiveness of participating in a developmental education program in preparing them for academic success. The theoretical frameworks supporting this study were Bandura's theory of self-efficacy and Tinto's theory…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Freshmen, Developmental Studies Programs, Academic Achievement
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Toby J. Park-Gaghan; Christine Mokher; Taylor Burtch; Morgan Danyi – Grantee Submission, 2024
Florida State University researchers spent the last year collecting and analyzing data on corequisite developmental education (DE) models in Texas as part of a four-year study that received a $1.5M grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. This study was proposed in response to Texas House Bill (HB) 2223, which…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Instruction, Required Courses, Models
Judith F. Diamond – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Adult learners from the Caribbean diaspora continue to enroll in American colleges as they seek to improve their academic ambitions. As they do, they utilize varying instructional strategies to assist in achieving their educational goals, one of which is cooperative learning. While cooperative learning is widely used across different age groups…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adults, College Students, Educational Strategies
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Elizabeth Goode; Suzi Syme; Johanna E. Nieuwoudt – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Immersive scheduling engages students in one or two subjects at a time over short teaching periods. While there is incipient evidence that immersive delivery can heighten academic outcomes in undergraduate education, much less is known about its effectiveness in pathways or access programs. This exploratory mixed-methods study investigated how a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Schedules, Scheduling, Academic Achievement
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Susana H. Hernández; Lyle McKinney; Andrea Burridge; Catherine O'Brien – AERA Open, 2024
Research on developmental education reform has given surprisingly limited attention to what happens inside the classroom between faculty and students. Our qualitative study used interview data from 20 faculty and 20 students in corequisite math and English courses at one of the nation's largest and most racially diverse community college systems.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Equal Education, Developmental Studies Programs
Maria Angelica Ricketts – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the study was to understand how faculty and counselors perceive student persistence, retention, and college readiness in relation to student academic success. The qualitative approach was utilized to obtain a deeper understanding of the lived experiences of the participants. Purposeful sampling was utilized to select faculty and…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, College Students, Higher Education, Teacher Attitudes
Woolery, Sheryce – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A significant number of students enter community colleges with developmental education (DE) needs in reading, writing, and mathematics. Many of these students are typically referred to more than one level of DE courses before they can enroll in a college-level course. This has led to lower than desired success rate of DE students over the years.…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Experience, Academic Achievement, Developmental Studies Programs
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