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Mary Fulton

Opening Doors to Student Success: A Synthesis of Findings from an Evaluation at Six Com... - 2 views

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    Partnering with six community colleges, MDRC developed and evaluated four distinct programs based on the following approaches: financial incentives, reforms in instructional practices, and enhancements in student services. (MDRC, March 2011)
Mary Fulton

Turning the Tide: Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges - 0 views

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    Report examines the first 26 colleges to join Achieving the Dream. The colleges developed more sophisticated methods for data analysis and efficient systems for monitoring their efforts to improve student achievement. Conversely, about one-fifth of the colleges still struggled to implement many of the initiative's recommended practices, hindered primarily by weak institutional research capacity. (MDRC and Community College Research Center, February 2011)
Bruce Vandal

Case Studies of Three Community Colleges: The Policy and Practice of Assessing and Plac... - 1 views

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    Study by MDRC looking at the assessment and placement practices of three community colleges. Findings include tremendous variations in approaches to assess and place students in remedial education.
Bruce Vandal

Scaling Up Learning Communities - 0 views

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    Executive Summary from MDRC on their latest research on the scaling up of strategies at community colleges to instruct students, particularly basic skills students, in learning communities. Findings have more to do with coordination of the scale up, than actual results. Findings consistent with earlier research that the learning communities did not result in effective curriculum integration or alignment.
Mary Fulton

Retrieving the Dream - 1 views

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    Article describes Achieving the Dream's efforts to respond to the project's evaluation by MDRC. Efforts include better faculty engagement and professional development, and sustaining and scaling up reforms. (Inside Higher Ed, 04/06/11)
Mary Fulton

Getting Ready for College: An Implementation and Early Impacts Study of Eight Texas Dev... - 0 views

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    Discusses the early findings of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas. (MDRC, October, 2011)
Mary Fulton

A Good Start: Two-year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough... - 0 views

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    Examines the impact of learning communities on student success at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York. The study found that learning community students are more likely to pass English-assessment tests and transfer to a four-year institution. (Susan Scrivener, Dan Bloom, Allen LeBlanc, Christina Paxson, Cecilia Elena Rouse and Colleen Sommo; MDRC, 2008)
Bruce Vandal

Case Studies of Three Community Colleges: The Policy and Practice of Assessing and Plac... - 10 views

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    Research done by MDRC looking at the assessment and placement process at three community colleges. It highlights several issues and challenges, including a lack of consensus about the standard for college-level work, the high-stakes nature of the assessments, and the minimal relationship between assessment for placement and diagnosis for instruction.
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    Include this report in the resources for the April 29 jam.
Bruce Vandal

Promising Instructional Reforms in Developmental Education - 4 views

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    The paper shows how three community colleges used the Achieving the Dream model of institutional reform to implement best instructional approaches for developmental education courses. The paper also examines how other community colleges may use evidence of success at these institutions as an indication of the utility and scalability of the Achieving the Dream model.
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    Case study of three institutions that used the Achieving the Dream process to develop and institute changes in developmental education
Mary Fulton

Dream On - 0 views

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    Article discusses a comprehensive evaluation of Achieving the Dream, which reveals that overall trends in student outcomes at the first 26 institutions to join the project remained relatively unchanged after five years, even though the colleges adopted a wide range of strategies to improve them. (Inside Higher Ed, 02/10/11)
Bruce Vandal

Scaling Up Is Hard to Do: Progress and Challenges During the First Year of the Achievin... - 2 views

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    Paper outlining the outcomes from the first year of implementation for the DEI initiative.
Bruce Vandal

Unlocking the Gate: What We Know About Improving Developmental Education - 1 views

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    This analysis focuses on four different types of interventions for improving students' progress through remedial education and into college-level courses, including (1) strategies that help students avoid developmental education by shoring up their skills before they enter college; (2) interventions that accelerate students' progress through developmental education by shortening the timing or content of their courses; (3) programs that provide contextualized basic skills together with occupational or college-content coursework; and (4) programs that enhance the supports for developmental level learners, such as advising or tutoring.
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