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Judy M. Endres – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Two-year colleges provide access and opportunity for students with various academic backgrounds to pursue a post-secondary education. While two-year colleges take pride in admitting any student with a high school diploma or equivalent, in recent years colleges have been under scrutiny for low completion and graduation rates. Particular attention…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Two Year Colleges, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation
Lesley A. Dorhout – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Developmental education has been in the hot seat for several decades with its critics calling for reform and its practitioners asserting its effectiveness given time. Wedged in the middle of this highly debated topic are the students who place into developmental education; students who should have a voice in the debate. This practitioner action…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Influences, Student Attitudes, College Students
Christine G. Mokher; Toby J. Park-Gaghan; Shouping Hu – Grantee Submission, 2023
Developmental education reform has shown promising evidence toward improving short-term outcomes, yet questions remain about whether these early gains contribute momentum toward mid-term and longer-term postsecondary success. In 2014, Florida implemented one of the nation's most comprehensive developmental education reforms. Many students became…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, College Preparation, Success, Program Effectiveness
Education Commission of the States, 2021
Sometimes referred to as corequisite remediation, corequisite support refers to college-level coursework that integrates additional support for students, usually in the form of an academic support class. This resource provides data on whether or not corequisite support is addressed, and if so, if it is required or allowed. [View the full…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Programs, Academic Support Services, Student Placement
Education Commission of the States, 2021
Twenty-six states or systems have authorized the use of innovative developmental education instructional methods and interventions. This resource provides data on the use of instructional methods, and which ones are used or allowed per state. [View the full "50-State Comparison: Developmental Education Policies" here:…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Programs, Academic Support Services, College Readiness
Christine G. Mokher; Toby J. Park-Gaghan; Shouping Hu – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Developmental education reform has shown promising evidence toward improving short-term outcomes, yet questions remain about whether these early gains contribute momentum toward mid-term and longer-term postsecondary success. In 2014, Florida implemented one of the nation's most comprehensive developmental education reforms. Many students became…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Public Colleges, Transfer Students
Waschull, Stefanie B. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2018
This chapter explores early impacts from the Florida College system's bold experiment in making placement testing and developmental education optional for most students.
Descriptors: Colleges, Educational Experiments, College Students, Student Placement
Andrea Lisa Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Although nearly half of community college students require some type of remediation, less than one-third of the students who start in developmental education graduate within eight years (Park, Tandberg, Hu, & Hankerson, 2016). As such, there is great uncertainty regarding the effectiveness of developmental education (Ari et al., 2016; Bailey…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Elective Courses, Remedial Instruction, Program Effectiveness
Education Commission of the States, 2021
This resource provides data on state and systemwide developmental education assessment and placement policies. Depending on the unique higher education governance structure in each state, a state may have several policies included in this resource. System-level initiatives, programs and collaborations are excluded from this review. A few states…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Programs, Academic Support Services, College Readiness
Sophie Litschwartz; Dan Cullinan; Colin Hill – Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, 2024
Historically, colleges have used standardized testing to determine whether a student is ready for college-level work or requires developmental courses first, but this method has been criticized as inaccurate. To obtain more accurate placements, nearly three-quarters of colleges now use multiple measures assessment (MMA) systems. These systems…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Evaluation Methods, Alternative Assessment, Standardized Tests
Leeds, Daniel M.; Mokher, Christine G. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2020
Over half of community college students place into developmental education, resulting in significant financial costs. We extend previous research demonstrating that using placement tests to assign students into developmental courses results in frequent misplacement. We use Florida data to explore the extent to which students are misplaced into…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, College Readiness, Student Placement, Community Colleges
Zhao, Kai; Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – AERA Open, 2022
Under Florida's developmental education (DE) reform since 2014, recent public high school graduates and active-duty military personnel became exempt from DE and traditional placement tests. The legislation also required colleges to provide accelerated instruction strategies for students remaining in DE and offer enhanced advising and support…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Community Colleges, Student Placement
Westover, Jacque Paxman – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In this dissertation, acceleration in developmental mathematics at Utah Valley University through compression of a 4-course sequence into a 2-course sequence was examined to determine the extent to which sequence length predicted student success outcomes, including completion of, pass/fail grades in, and re-enrollment into subsequent developmental…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Acceleration (Education)
Federick Ngo; Dan Cullinan – MDRC, 2022
While most community colleges admit all students who apply for admission, the vast majority have required students to demonstrate specified levels of literacy and numeracy before they can take college-level courses. Typically, students have been assessed using a single placement test, such as the College Board's ACCUPLACER. Colleges--or sometimes…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Placement, School Readiness, Placement Tests
Leeds, Daniel M.; Mokher, Christine G. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Over half of community college students place into developmental education, resulting in significant financial costs. We extend previous research demonstrating that using placement tests to assign students into developmental courses results in frequent misplacement. We use Florida data to explore the extent to which students are misplaced into…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, College Readiness, Student Placement, Community Colleges