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Kimberley M. Donnelly – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2023
Researchers, organizations, companies, non-profits, practitioners, and to some extent, the public, are clamoring for massive reform in developmental coursework in higher education (American Association of Community Colleges, 2018; Edgecombe et al., 2014; Complete College America, 2012). One such reform is the push for integrated reading and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Reading Instruction
Christine G. Mokher; Toby J. Park-Gaghan – Grantee Submission, 2023
In response to concerns about the additional costs and time-to-degree associated with traditional developmental education programs, several states and postsecondary systems have implemented corequisite reform where academically underprepared students take both a developmental education course and college-level course in the same subject area…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
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Mark Duffy; Kri Burkander – Research for Action, 2023
Drawing on qualitative data collected in a sample of colleges as part of a larger study on the implementation and impact of AB 705 in California, this paper explores the rollout of corequisite reforms, focusing on the use of embedded tutors in introductory math and English courses as a strategy to meet to the needs of students. This paper…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Community Colleges, Educational Policy, Required Courses
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Miller, Benjamin Lawrance; Rochford, Regina A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Developmental interventions for reading and writing often take place at community colleges during the winter or summer. These brief, intersession workshops are examples of compressed acceleration, as they give students the opportunity to exit developmental coursework and enroll in credit bearing courses the following semester. As college readiness…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Vacation Programs, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
Ivan Dole – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Developmental English (DE) has been under fire from critics who think it acts as a barrier rather than as a support to the success of students placing into DE. In Texas, such pressures led to a wave of reforms and changes affecting delivery and structure of DE instruction. This dissertation draws on years of internal data at one community college…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs, Community College Students, Success
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
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D. Patrick Saxon; Andi L. Thomas; Autumn B. McKelvey – Learning Assistance Review, 2024
This work examines what appears to be the most effective comprehensive learning support program ever available for underprepared college students. The Accelerated Study in Associate Programs initiative was designed and implemented at the City University of New York Community Colleges. It offers a wide range of integrated college acclimation,…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Student Adjustment
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Kathy Luckett – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2025
Motivated by critiques from black students during the protests (2015-2016), I trace continuities between the racialised discourses and knowledge regimes that justified colonial education policies and that of Education Development at a historically white South African university. First, I show how the University of Cape Town's Humanities Education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Policy, Colonialism
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Smith-Foley, Susan; Dunn, Winnie – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2019
The Developmental, Individual Differences, Relationship-Based (DIR) model, also known as DIR®/Floortime™, is a comprehensive approach for individuals with developmental disabilities and other disorders of relating and communicating, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Limited qualitative research exists regarding the use of the…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Allied Health Personnel
Tuere Anne Marshall – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The growing number of underprepared students entering two- and four-year colleges and universities is the number one challenge currently facing the field of higher education. According to the American Association of Community Colleges, 41% of all undergraduates and 39% of first-time freshman consider community college their "go-to"…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Strategies, Community Colleges, Success
Georgann Nedwell – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Developmental education has existed as a thread of American higher education since the founding of Harvard College in 1636, when tutors provided supplemental Latin programming for underprepared students. In recent years, developmental education is most prominent at community colleges: ninety-eight percent of the colleges offer some form of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Teacher Motivation, Developmental Studies Programs
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Motta, Sara C.; Bennett, Anna – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
This article explores and conceptualises the emergent and historic presence of a feminised pedagogical praxis in Australian Enabling (university access) programs. Analysing a participatory project at a regional university that sought to map these pedagogies, it specifically aims to visibilise the complexities of careful pedagogical practices which…
Descriptors: Caring, Epistemology, Participatory Research, Access to Education
Snell, Myra – RP Group, 2023
For California's community colleges, fall 2019 marked the deadline for implementing the state's historic developmental education legislation, Assembly Bill 705 (Irwin 2017). AB 705 drove transformative changes in community college math and English programs as colleges implemented research-based placement policies designed to maximize students'…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment Trends, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
Paula Dean Fuller – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Developmental Education reform has been a vital topic in the field of higher education for decades. There have been several initiatives to further engage under-prepared college students and move them through gateway courses like freshman-level English and Math. One of the more emergent instructional models is referred to as co-requisite…
Descriptors: Program Design, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Higher Education
Annabah B. Conn – ProQuest LLC, 2021
According to American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) data, 13.8% of American Indians 25 years and older have a bachelor's degree. The single most important barrier to student success remains preparation (Adelman, 2006). Underprepared students are disproportionately students of color, students of low socioeconomic status, and students…
Descriptors: Minority Serving Institutions, Tribally Controlled Education, Developmental Studies Programs, Indigenous Populations
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