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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
Difei Li – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Postsecondary institutions are redesigning the ways in which they offer remedial courses to support students' progress and eventual success in college more effectively A corequisite approach places students assessed as marginally remedial directly into college-level courses but provides them with additional academic support. The rationale is that…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Remedial Instruction, Required Courses, State Programs
Pearson, 2018
Connections Academy is a full-time, tuition-free, virtual public school program that served more than 70,000 K-12 students in 27 states in the 2017-2018 school year. Pearson sought to explore how Connections Academy schools perform compared to the alternatives. This Research Report presents findings from two research studies: one…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Online Courses, Public Schools, Repetition
Bickerstaff, Susan; Beal, Katie; Raufman, Julia; Lewy, Erika B.; Slaughter, Austin – Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, 2022
Over the past decade, policymakers, educators, and administrators in community colleges and other broad-access postsecondary institutions have focused on reforming developmental education practices, including how students are assessed as needing additional academic support. Concurrent with widespread changes in practice, researchers have engaged…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Evidence Based Practice
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Nelson, John W. – Studies in Continuing Education, 1988
Discusses mandatory continuing professional education (MCPE) in Australia for the legal and accountancy professions. Considers whether the main concern is continuing education or the certification by professional bodies of their members as competent to practice. Concludes that program designers should recognize that there are educational as well…
Descriptors: Accounting, Adult Education, Certification, Foreign Countries