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Pugh, Sandra Jeanette – ProQuest LLC, 2022
With the developmental education (DE) reform movement at postsecondary still apace, this qualitative study seeks to understand the policy impacts of Florida Senate Bill 1720, major legislation mandating developmental education reform in the state of Florida. The body of literature thus far has focused on quantitative analyses of secondary data…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, State Legislation
Tanya Woltmann – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation examined the relationship between participation in an academic coaching program and retention for community college students enrolled in developmental education courses. With low retention and completion rates for students beginning in developmental courses, support programs to improve student success are needed. This…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, School Holding Power, Relationship
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Brandt, Brian – Journal of Extension, 2016
Trip and conference chaperones are a wonderful resource in youth development programs. These well-intended volunteers, many parents of youth participating in the event, want the best experience for the youth but are not necessarily trained in positive youth development. A consequence of this circumstance is that not all chaperones provide the best…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Developmental Programs, Supervision, Supervisors
Council for Advancement and Support of Education, 2018
Increasing diversity among development staff is a persistent challenge for college and university advancement leaders. In 2015, Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) surveyed chief advancement officers of 35 U.S. development programs about efforts to achieve greater staff diversity. In 2016, CASE conducted follow-up interviews…
Descriptors: Diversity (Institutional), Developmental Programs, Educational Development, Universities
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)
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McGee, Barrie – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2021
As an instructor of the developmental reading and writing course at Texas State University, Barrie McGee is required per state mandate to design a course as an accelerated version of an integrated reading and writing (IRW) course. Furthermore, she is uniquely positioned as a student enrolled in the program in developmental education to access…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Reading, Remedial Programs, Reading Instruction
Michael Constantine McConnell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Effective professional development for course instructors in higher education has long been a point of interest in terms of how not only ongoing training can benefit instructors but also how those benefits could possibly improve student experiences and learning outcomes. This qualitative case study specifically examines a population of teachers…
Descriptors: Social Media, Professional Development, Community Colleges, Adjunct Faculty
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Manning, Terri Mulkins – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2018
This chapter examines how student success allows a college to recoup their funding loss from a costly reform effort in developmental math education.
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Education, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2025
This protocol guided the review of research that informs the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide entitled "Strategies for Postsecondary Students in Developmental Education -- A Practice Guide for College and University Administrators, Advisors, and Faculty." This protocol was used in conjunction with the "WWC Procedures…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Guides, Intervention, Developmental Studies Programs
Nina Arshavsky; Julie A. Edmunds; Fatih Unlu; Lily Fesler – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
This mixed methods experimental study examined the impacts of the Early College High School model on students' college readiness in mathematics measured by their success in college preparatory mathematics courses in the 9th through 11th grades, and disaggregated for academically prepared and underprepared students. This study looked at the…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Readiness, Mathematics Achievement, College Preparation
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Larson, Holly – Voices of Reform, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to not analyze how effective or ineffective Senate Bill 1720 has been since its implementation five years ago; rather, the paper's guiding goal is to closely examine a report recently published in February 2019 by The Center for Postsecondary Success (CPS) at Florida State University, claiming SB 1720 a success. In the…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educational Change, Rhetoric
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Coltharp, Jean – Journal of Developmental Education, 2020
The low success rate of developmental (or remedial) mathematics courses has been a great concern at the higher education level. In this research, student success is considered in terms of final grade, D/F percentage, and withdrawal percentage. The study examines student success at a Midwestern university as it relates to instructional delivery…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics, College Students, Majors (Students)
Finster, Matthew; Feldman, Jill – Grantee Submission, 2020
Due to low success of traditional, postsecondary remediation mathematics, The Maryland Mathematics Reform Initiative First in the World Grant (MMRI-FITW) sought to develop and implement a statistics pathway as an alternative to traditional algebra-based math, to accelerate developmental mathematics students' progress into credit-bearing…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Nontraditional Education, Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics
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Smith, Amy D. – Georgia Journal of College Student Affairs, 2019
This study sought to answer if a relationship existed between required corequisite support and success in gateway College Algebra courses. Complete College America and Complete College Georgia initiatives over the last ten years have sought ways to increase access to higher education with high progression and completion rates. Efforts such as the…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Algebra, Required Courses, Developmental Studies Programs
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
This protocol guides the review of research that informs the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) intervention reports in the Developmental Education topic area. The protocol is used in conjunction with the "WWC Procedures and Standards Handbooks (version 4.0)." Not all students enrolled in college are prepared to do college-level work in all…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Remedial Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs, College Students
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