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Jonathan Lollar – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research studies indicated that learning support professionals, which includes postsecondary developmental education professionals, often lacked opportunities for training to engage with the population of students they work with, as well as current instructional practices and/or reforms. While the research is expansive, it has focused on the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Postsecondary Education, School Personnel, Teacher Attitudes
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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
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Holly N. Henning; Morgan M. Danyi; Toby J. Park-Gaghan; Christine G. Mokher – Grantee Submission, 2025
A continuous topic of discussion in postsecondary success contexts is how institutions can assist students who need developmental education support. As part of an ongoing move away from lengthy developmental course sequences that delay students' time-to-degree completion, corequisite education models allow students to enroll in developmental…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Educational Change, Developmental Studies Programs, Postsecondary Education
Susan Bickerstaff; Tatiana Melguizo – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2024
Efforts to strengthen the pipeline to college degree completion have focused on improving college access and providing academic, social, and financial supports to students post-enrollment. This paper explores one facet of postsecondary education that has served as a barrier to both college access and success--developmental education--which has…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Civil Rights, Educational Trends
Jonah Shulman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The present grant funded study by the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects investigated the effects of a chronological multicultural mathematics (CMM) framework on math identity and math achievement of student participants enrolled in two virtual post-secondary developmental math courses (N = 9). The students were selected due to an inability…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, College Mathematics, Electronic Learning, Developmental Studies Programs
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Boatman, Angela; Claro, Susana; Fresard, Matias; Kramer, Jenna W. – Research in Higher Education, 2022
For countries concerned about equity and access to higher education, providing support services for academically underprepared students is critical to increasing their probabilities of success. Corequisite math courses provide opportunities for underprepared students to develop their basic math skills through simultaneous enrollment in…
Descriptors: Required Courses, College Readiness, Mathematics Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2025
This protocol guided the review of research that informs the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide entitled "Strategies for Postsecondary Students in Developmental Education -- A Practice Guide for College and University Administrators, Advisors, and Faculty." This protocol was used in conjunction with the "WWC Procedures…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Guides, Intervention, Developmental Studies Programs
Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education, 2022
The Alaska Performance Scholarship (APS) is beginning its tenth year rewarding students who strive to excel in high school and continue their education in degree and certificate programs in Alaska. This report covers the high school, postsecondary, Alaska residency, and workforce outcomes of the APS program between 2011 - Fall 2019. [For…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Outcomes of Education, High School Graduates, Postsecondary Education
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Armstrong, Sonya L.; Stahl, Norman A.; Lampi, Jodi P. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
Recent calls for coursework acceleration, reforms efforts, and promising pedagogical practices have resulted in the reemergence of integrated reading and writing (IRW) courses in community colleges nationwide. To answer such calls, a number of IRW textbooks have been published and implemented rapidly, perhaps out of convenience. This study was a…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Integrated Curriculum, Reading Writing Relationship, Community Colleges
Martin, Jeremy; Krueger, Carl – Education Commission of the States, 2020
This Policy Brief captures some of the challenges for students' math education trajectories, in light of the coronavirus pandemic, and it highlights three ways states can strengthen math pathways to improve student access and success. Specific policy options that states can consider include: (1) aligning high school math courses with postsecondary…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Mathematics Education, Alignment (Education)
Roberts, Maxine T.; Squires, John – Education Commission of the States, 2021
Emerging practices in both K-12 and higher education hold great promise in the establishment of equity frameworks. The use of finely disaggregated data, the effort to track additional student groups, and related work, all help to establish policies and tools to monitor the impact of reform efforts to address inequities. State programs and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, State Programs, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
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Suh, Emily K.; Hodges, Russ – Journal of Developmental Education, 2020
Generation 1 learners are multilingual, adult-arrival, immigrant students who begin their U.S. education in adult ESL. With their nontraditional academic backgrounds, these learners often require support when beginning postsecondary education; however, postsecondary learning assistance professionals may not understand these learners' unique needs…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Student Needs, Postsecondary Education, Academic Support Services
Whinnery, Erin; Pompelia, Sarah – Education Commission of the States, 2019
For many students, developmental education is the largest obstacle to college success, hindering progress before they ever enroll in a college-level course. Postsecondary practitioners and researchers have been re-examining and challenging many traditional elements of developmental education from placement strategies to the sequence of courses…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Policy, Postsecondary Education, College Students
Mayer, Alexander – MDRC, 2018
In this testimony by Alexander Mayer, Deputy Director, Postsecondary Education, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC), Before the New Jersey State Assembly Higher Education Committee, the following three points are emphasized: (1) Developmental education is a major challenge facing low-income college students in New Jersey and across…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Low Income Groups, Barriers, College Students
Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education, 2020
Since 2011, the Alaska Performance Scholarship (APS) has rewarded Alaska students who excel in high school with over $88 million in scholarships to help cover the cost of in-state postsecondary education. This report covers the high school, postsecondary, Alaska residency, and workforce outcomes of the APS program between 2011-Fall 2020. [For…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, High School Graduates
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