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Download full textMoussa, Adnan; Bickerstaff, Susan – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
Mathematics requirements are a significant barrier to completing a college credential for many college students. In an effort to change the tide, colleges across the country are working to implement mathematics pathways, which encourages all students to enroll in one of several college-level mathematics courses that best aligns with their chosen…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Mathematics Achievement, College Mathematics, College Students
Bickerstaff, Susan; Moussa, Adnan – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020
This study examines the efforts of higher education systems in six states to implement large-scale changes to improve student outcomes in mathematics in community colleges and four-year colleges and universities as part of the Mathematics Pathways to Completion (MPC) project. The three-year project was launched in 2015 to help Arkansas,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Community Colleges, Institutional Cooperation
Bickerstaff, Susan; Chavarín, Octaviano; Raufman, Julia – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2018
The Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the developer of the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways (DCMP) model, initiated the Mathematics Pathways to Completion (MPC) project to support each of six states in developing a broad statewide vision for mathematics pathways and a plan for institutional implementation of the DCMP…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Educational Change, Alignment (Education), State Policy
Bickerstaff, Susan; Edgecombe, Nikki – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
Adult proficiency in numeracy in the United States lags that of other developed nations, and the nonselective institutions that dominate the higher education sector struggle to address the learning needs of the sizeable proportion of students who enroll in their institutions and are deemed academically underprepared in mathematics. Research on…
Descriptors: College Students, College Mathematics, Remedial Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs
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
Fay, Maggie P.; Bickerstaff, Susan; Hodara, Michelle – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2013
Drawn from surveys completed by 122 students enrolled in developmental math at four community colleges and from seven student focus groups with a total of 34 developmental math students at those same colleges, this research brief illuminates student experiences with and perspectives on the math assessment and placement process. Findings suggest…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Two Year College Students
