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Advancing Health Care Professional Education and Training in Diagnostic Excellence. Proceedings of a Workshop--In Brief
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Jennifer Lalitha Flaubert, Rapporteur; Adrienne Formentos, Rapporteur; Erin Hammers Forstag, Rapporteur; Forum on Advancing Diagnostic Excellence, Contributor; Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Contributor; Board on Global Health, Contributor; Board on Health Care Services, Contributor; Health and Medicine Division, Contributor – National Academies Press, 2025
Diagnostic errors are a significant patient safety concern, impacting millions of people across the United States each year. Strengthening education and training for all health care professionals involved in the diagnostic process is essential to improving diagnostic accuracy, timeliness of treatment, and patient outcomes. In April 2025, the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Teaching Methods, Clinical Diagnosis, Feedback (Response)
Contemplative Course Design: Promoting Mindfulness and Academic Belonging among Student Writers Labeled Institutionally Unprepared
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Kristen Starkowski – Composition Forum, 2024
Student writers labeled "underprepared" by colleges often have trouble imagining themselves as scholars. Challenges these students routinely encounter include difficulty forming original insights and translating ideas to the page. Although the usage of the term "underprepared" varies across institutional contexts, the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Developmental Studies Programs
Examining the Effect of Redesigned Remediation: A Corequisite Approach and College Success
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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
The Effects of Corequisite Remediation: Evidence from a Statewide Reform in Tennessee
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Ran, Florence Xiaotao; Lin, Yuxin – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
This article provides the first causal evidence of a system-wide corequisite reform in Tennessee, which mainstreams underprepared students into college-level courses with concurrent support. Using regression discontinuity and difference-in-regression-discontinuity designs, we find that, for those on the margin of college level, students placed…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Remedial Instruction, Student Placement, Teaching Methods
Examining the Impacts of Florida's Developmental Education Reform for Non-Exempt Students: The Case of First-Year English and Math Course Enrollment and Success
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Zhao, Kai; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Mokhe, Christine G.; Hu, Shouping – Community College Review, 2022
Objective: In 2014, Florida implemented Senate Bill 1720 (SB 1720), which drastically reshaped developmental education practices across the 28 public state colleges. Under the reform, around two-thirds of students became exempt from developmental education. Yet, many students were still required to take the placement test. If they scored below…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, State Colleges, College Students