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Lisa Levinson

CEP | Time for a Gold Standard of Use | The Center for Effective Philanthropy - 1 views

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    Impact evaluations are important because they provide evidence about what works and does not work. It looks at what caused the improvement, or lack there of. This article from the Center for Effective Philanthropy talks about evaluation from the policy, practice, as well as philanthropy perspective.
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Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Office of Research and Policy Anal... - 2 views

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    Georgia report evaluating the impact of developmental education on different student groups
Bruce Vandal

Ready for College in Colorado: Evaluation of the Colorado SUN and the College Connectio... - 2 views

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    Evaluation of the SUN project in the Colorado Community Colleges. Initiative was intended to better prepare and transition adult education students into community college programs.
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)
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

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

Where to Begin? The Evolving Role of Placement Exams for Students Starting College - 0 views

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    The report is intended to help state and college leaders understand the latest research on assessments used for course placement , make sense of the contentious debate issues, and evaluate their own options for moving forward. (Jobs for the Future, August 2012)
Bruce Vandal

April 2006 American Institutes for Research RAHI - Google Search - 0 views

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    Report on Rural Alaska Honors Institute. Evaluation from AIR showing that students participating in the program are twice as likely to earn a degree.
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Social Bookmarking in Plain English - 1 views

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    Produced by commoncraft, Aug 6 2007. This video describes social bookmarking in a fun and decidedly low-tech fashion. Runtime is just over 3 minutes. Please note that this video is for sale, though it is possible to watch an evaluation copy, for free, from this URL.
Mary Fulton

Setting Up Success in Developmental Education: How State Policy Can Help Community Coll... - 1 views

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    This issue brief describes how the 15 states participating in the Achieving the Dream project have concentrated their policy efforts on four key areas: preventative strategies, assessment and placement, implementation and evaluation of program innovation,
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ACT's Educational Planning and Assessment System (EPAS) - 2 views

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    ACT's Assessment System that includes the Explore, Plan and ACT assessment
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    The Educational Planning and Assessment System (EPAS) provides a longitudinal, systematic approach to educational and career planning, assessment, instructional support, and evaluation.
Lisa Levinson

Developing Discipline-Based Critical Thinking Skills via Use of Interactive Technologie... - 0 views

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    "This article provides a rationale for incorporating the development of critical thinking skills into the online learning environment. The author also presents possibilities for building these cognitive skills into online classes. She maintains that incorporating critical thinking skills is a necessary component of learning; these skills assist learners to evaluate and link the abundance of information and ideas that is available via information communication technologies (ICTs). "
Mary Fulton

Year-Two Evaluation of the Illinois College and Career Readiness Act Pilot Sites - 0 views

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    Documents the partnerships between high schools and community colleges and provides evidence of the early assessment and intervention programs to reduce college remediation. The pilot programs are part of the Illinois College and Career Act.
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Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia: Office of Research and Policy Ana... - 1 views

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    The Office of Research and Policy Analysis (RPA) is the research arm of the Board of Regents, analyzing higher education and related state and national policy issues and their impact on the University System of Georgia. Reports in this section analyze success of students in developmental education courses as a means for evaluating their "Learning Support" Programs
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COMPASS (product website) - 1 views

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    COMPASS is an untimed, computerized test that helps evaluate skills for placment into appropriate courses. Created by ACT
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Tennessee Developmental Studies Redesign - 1 views

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    With support from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) has established a new system-wide initiative to redesign its developmental math and English curriculum using technology- supported, active-learning strategies.
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Basic Skills Initiative - 0 views

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    The Basic Skills Initiative (BSI) was a grant funded initiative from the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Ofice. The goal of this project was improving student access. Resources include a basic skills handbook, and literature reviews.
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Achieving the Dream - 0 views

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    Achieving the Dream is a multiyear national initiative to help more community college students succeed.
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American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) - 0 views

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    The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges was founded in 1974. It is the only organization exclusively devoted to providing a national forum for the improvement of mathematics instruction in the first two years of college.
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)
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