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Bruce Vandal

Promoting a Culture of Student Success - 0 views

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    SREB report articulating strategies for how states can significantly increase college graduation rates. Features the Cal State Long Beach strategy for serving students with developmental education needs
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)
Matt Smith

Beyond Basic Skills - 1 views

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    From CLASP: Beyond Basic Skills describes strategies that can be used to strengthen connections between basic skills education and postsecondary education to help lower-skilled adults and out-of-school youth attain the postsecondary credentials they need to advance in the labor market. This includes state-level innovations such as: instructional strategies that provide a strong foundation in occupational skills required for jobs in the local economy; acceleration strategies that help students progress further and more quickly in education and training programs in a shorter period of time than traditional approaches, and funding formulas, assessment policies, and other administrative policies that support a statewide vision to provide adults and youth with pathways to better jobs through postsecondary education. The report also includes examples of states and local institutions that are effectively implementing one or more of these innovations.
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    Report from CLASP for policymakers on how to link basic skills instruction to postsecondary attainment
Mary Fulton

One-Shot Deal? Students' Perceptions of Assessment and Course Placement in California's... - 2 views

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    Examines the assessment and course placement practices across California's community colleges for incoming students and recommends strategies for overall improvement. (WestEd, September 2010)
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    Resource shared at the GPG Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7, 2010.
Bruce Vandal

Remedial classes cost Ga. colleges millions  | ajc.com - 0 views

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    Story on the new policies and strategies in the University of Georgia System to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of remedial education.
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Missouri Department of Higher Education: Curriculum Alignment Initiative (CAI) - 0 views

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    "The work of the CAI is part of the Missouri Department of Higher Education strategy to increase participation in higher education and to smooth pathways for students entering into and progressing in higher education. The goal of this work is to improve the college readiness of high school students throughout Missouri. CAI is also driven by the work of the Mathematics, Engineering, Technology, and Science (METS) Coalition, as well as the P-20 Council and the Director of Education and Workforce Innovation. "
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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Getting Past Go: Telling the Story of Developmental Education - 0 views

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    ECS / Getting Past Go: Telling the Story of Developmental Education: Using Data to Develop a State Strategy. February 2010
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.
Bruce Vandal

Altered State: How Virginia Community College System Has Used Achieving the Dream to Im... - 1 views

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    Report from JFF on Virginia's state strategy to improve community colleges through Achieving The Dream.
Matt Smith

NGA Report: Return on Investment--Strategies for Improving Remedial Education - 1 views

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    Brief by Bruce Vandal for NGA; highlights approaches to improve productivity, student success in remedial education; also has college completion implications
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.
Matt Smith

A System Approach to Developmental Redesign in Tennessee - 2 views

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    Provides an overview and history of the Tennessee Developmental Studies Redesign initiative. The PowerPoint presentation also addresses questions raised and answered by the initiative, including: why Tennessee needed to rethink developmental studies, how the state positioned itself for change, how Tennessee has changed developmental studies, and what strategies worked for the Tennessee's higher education system. (Dr. Paula Myrick Short and Dr. Treva Berryman, Tennessee Board of Regents, October 2010)
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    This resources was shared by Uri Treisman at the Workshop on Remedial Education in Nashville, TN on October 5-7
Matt Smith

Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the Calif... - 2 views

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    The study follows a cohort model and tracks the course-taking patterns of first-time community college students over a seven-year period. The data suggest that aspirations, age, ethnicity, and institutional factors affect students' completion of a developmental course sequence. After presenting the descriptive data, the authors outline five policy implications for their research. Three are particularly relevant to policy discussions we have had at Getting Past Go: using common assessments and early interventions to reduce the need for developmental education; identifying delays in course-taking to develop better-aligned support; and, addressing the issue of students not completing remediation from the lowest course levels.
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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.
Mary Fulton

Strategies for Promoting Gatekeeper Course Success Among Students Needing Remediation: - 1 views

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    The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) is engaged in a strategic planning process to improve performance. A key objective is to encourage colleges to improve retention and academic success for unprepared students. This report presents the main findings from a study of VCCS developmental education and outlines suggestions to attain the strategic plan goals. (Josipa Roksa, Davis Jenkins, Shanna Smith Jaggars, Matthew Zeidenberg & Sung-Woo Cho, Community College Research Center, November 2009)
Mary Fulton

Stepping Stones to a Degree: The Impact of Enrollment Pathways and Milestones on Commun... - 1 views

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

Progress of Education Reform: Community College Success - 0 views

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    This ECS publication looks at the latest research on student success in community colleges and offers insights on the strategies that show the most promise in promoting greater educational attainment for community college students. (Bruce Vandal, Educatio
Bruce Vandal

Making Opportunity Affordable - 1 views

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    The Lumina Foundation for Education's Initiative to increase the productivity of postsecondary education by developing policies and strategies that result in higher college completion rates at lower costs to taxpayers, students and institutions.
Bruce Vandal

Students playing catch-up as they hit college | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning... - 0 views

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    Story in Dallas News on the high percentage of Texas high school students who enter college underprepared. Outlines some of the strategies that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is supporting to improve student success.
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