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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,

Assesses the impact on enrollment pathways and academic milestones on student success, as part of a larger study. The report finds that enrollment pathways are an effective strategy for adult students and academic milestones are more effective for younger students. The researchers used data from students at Florida community colleges. (Juan Calcagno, Peter Crosta, Davis Jenkins and Thomas Bailey; Community College Research Center, 2006)

This piece is great for outlining the basis of the recent movement toward "momentum" points in postsecondary education.

Story in Inside Higher Ed on State Policy Framework for Developmental Education Initiative. Outlines funding, delivery, assessment, early intervention strategies, performance indicators as key levers.

Document outlining state policy priorities for states participating in the developmental education initiative. Addresses, K-12 curricular alignment, funding, assessment and placement, data and performance measurement, academic support services

Report on a statewide developmental education survey conducted by TX Higher Education Coordinating Board

Provides data on several developmental education topics, including academic advising and support services; academic performance; college readiness assessments; faculty development; and course delivery. (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2010)

In this editorial, Kevin Carey, policy director of think tank Education Sector, argues that colleges are not fulfilling their mission to students: costs are rising and students are not learning (or even graduating). He argues for transparency and studies of the effectiveness of teaching and learning, and warns of the education-related lobbies that keep the rest of us in the dark about higher education. (Kevin Carey in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Issue #15, Winter 2010).

Action Analytics, which they define as "a multi-dimensional effort aimed squarely at fundamental and strategic education reform in the context of massive economic, social, and technological change... [A]ction analytics strategically uses data, statistics, predictive modeling and visualization to promote student success, achieve institutional efficiency, and demonstrate transparency."

Overview of the two common core assessment consortia by ETS

The report from the Community College Research Center studies the validity of developmental education assessments in predicting retention and student completion odds. While many have focused on instructional innovations, few have studied the empirical power of assessments to predict future performance.

Urges states to track how well high school graduates perform in college so that the schools can better prepare students for and succeed in postsecondary education. States should track postsecondary enrollment, remediation and credit accumulation. Recommends four actions for states to take to track and publish these data. (J.B. Schramm and E. Kinney Zalesne, October 2011)