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Direct linkMokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
Florida's developmental education reform has benefitted most students directly impacted by the reform and has helped to reduce existing achievement gaps by race/ethnicity, English Language Learner status, and academic preparation in short-term outcomes like college course-taking and credit accumulation. Even though the reform was not specifically…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
Download full textMokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Spencer, Hayley; Hu, Xinye; Hu, Shouping – Grantee Submission, 2020
Following a major statewide developmental education reform in Florida, we explored institutional transformation among Florida College System institutions. We used statewide survey data to examine lead administrators' perceptions of challenges encountered during the planning process, ways in which colleges engaged in sensemaking (i.e., social…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Remedial Instruction, State Colleges, Administrator Attitudes
Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Mokher, Christine G.; Spencer, Hayley; Hu, Shouping – American Journal of Education, 2021
Underprepared students at community colleges are often assigned to a sequence of developmental education (DE) courses that can substantially delay, or even halt, their progress to degree completion. In 2014, Florida took a drastic step forward when it implemented a comprehensive DE reform. Our findings show large, positive base effects of the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Educational Change, Remedial Instruction
Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Spencer, Hayley; Hu, Xinye; Hu, Shouping – Innovative Higher Education, 2020
Following a major statewide developmental education reform in Florida, we explored institutional transformation among Florida College System institutions. We used statewide survey data to examine lead administrators' perceptions of challenges encountered during the planning process, ways in which colleges engaged in sensemaking (i.e., social…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Remedial Instruction, State Colleges, Administrator Attitudes
Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Research in Higher Education, 2021
Florida passed legislation in 2013 that exempted many students from developmental education, and required colleges to implement new instructional modalities for optional developmental education courses. This paper uses an economic model of remediation to examine how changes in college course taking before and after the reform altered costs to…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Equal Education, Costs, Developmental Studies Programs
Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
Community colleges may face challenges supporting the unique needs of language minority (LM) students whose primary language is not English. Florida provides a unique context for examining whether LM students who are considered underprepared for college-level coursework benefit more from traditional developmental education programs in reading and…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Educational Change, Remedial Instruction, English (Second Language)
Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Grantee Submission, 2020
Florida passed legislation in 2013 that exempted many students from developmental education, and required colleges to implement new instructional modalities for optional developmental education courses. This paper uses an economic model of remediation to examine how changes in college course taking before and after the reform altered costs to…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Equal Education, Costs, Developmental Studies Programs
Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Mokher, Christine G.; Hu, Xinye; Spencer, Hayley; Hu, Shouping – Educational Researcher, 2020
Florida's Senate Bill 1720 allowed many students to bypass developmental education and enroll directly in introductory college-level courses. We use an interrupted time series design to introductory college-level courses enrollment and passing rates in English and math for three cohorts of college students prereform and three cohorts postreform.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Remedial Instruction, Introductory Courses, Enrollment
Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Mokher, Christine G.; Hu, Xinye; Spencer, Hayley; Hu, Shouping – Grantee Submission, 2020
Florida's Senate Bill 1720 allowed many students to bypass developmental education and enroll directly in introductory college-level courses. We use an interrupted time series design to introductory college-level courses enrollment and passing rates in English and math for three cohorts of college students prereform and three cohorts postreform.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Remedial Instruction, Introductory Courses, Enrollment
Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: Underprepared students at community colleges are often assigned to a sequence of developmental education courses that can substantially delay, or even halt, their progress to degree completion. In 2014, Florida implemented a comprehensive reform under Senate Bill (SB) 1720 that allowed the majority of incoming students to…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Instruction, Educational Change
Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Grantee Submission, 2020
Background/Context: Underprepared students at community colleges are often assigned to a sequence of developmental education courses that can substantially delay, or even halt, their progress to degree completion. In 2014, Florida implemented a comprehensive reform under Senate Bill (SB) 1720 that allowed the majority of incoming students to…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, College Credits, Community Colleges
