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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.
Bruce Vandal

Paying Double: Inadequate High Schools and Community College Remediation - 2 views

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    This report done by Alliance for Excellent Education documents the costs to postsecondary institutions and the economy as a whole because of the high percent of students who require developmental education. This report is cited by the U.S. Department of Education and President Obama as part of the justification for tying Title 1 funding from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to state adopting college and career ready standards
Mary Fulton

Massachusetts Community Colleges Developmental Education Best Policy and Practice Audit - 2 views

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    Examines developmental education best practices and policies within Massachusetts' 15 community colleges. It presents findings, recommendations and resources to assist the community colleges in improving the success of academically vulnerable students within and beyond developmental education. (Massachusetts Community Colleges Executive Office, June 2009)
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)
Lisa Levinson

Assessment Insights: January 2011 | Research Insights - 2 views

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    Automated essay scoring (AES) has many benefits such as immediate grading, reliable reporting, and diagnostic feedback. While automation poses certain operational and technical challenges, more states are adopting AES for both formative and summative assessments. This presentation presents empirical data from the state of West Virginia online writing assessments on the reliability and validity of machine scores.
Bruce Vandal

Hughes & Scott-Clayton: Reassess assessment in America's community colleges - 2 views

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    Piece on how assessments can be more effectively employed for remedial education
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Alaska Senate Bill SB0221B, Task Force on Higher Education and Career Readiness - 2 views

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    The task force will identify ways to strengthen the education pipeline, improve student college preparation, decrease the need for college remediation, improve access to financial aid, increase retention and graduation rates, address data and tracking needs, and ultimately support economic development.
Lisa Levinson

Business Results Through Essential Skills and Literacy - Workforce Education - Workforc... - 2 views

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    This guidebook is a result of partnerships between numerous companies, literacy agencies, and trade associations involved with manufacturing and exports in Canada. The guidebook is divided into two sections. Literacy & Essential Skills in Business provides information and facts about Canada's efforts to improve literacy and essential skills in the workplace. The second section is a workbook providing tools for workplace assessments, checklists and usable templates to initiate a workplace literacy program. There is also a very useful appendix with additional resources.
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.
Mary Fulton

Tennessee Board of Regents' Developmental Studies Redesign Program and Use of NCAT Models - 2 views

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    The Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) established a new systemwide initiative to redesign its developmental math and English curriculum using technology-supported active-learning strategies. The goal was to achieve improvements in learning outcomes as well as reductions in instructional costs. This effort was undertaken in collaboration with the National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT), building on the successful models and lessons learned from NCAT's Program in Course Redesign and Roadmap to Redesign.
Lisa Levinson

ACE | GED Testing Service Publications - 2 views

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    The GED testing service has just published Crossing the Bridge: GED credentials and Post Secondary Educational Outcomes. This is a baseline report that follows GED graduates from 2003 (first cohort of the new test) and their enrollment, persistence, and graduation from post secondary institutions. It compares this group with the high school diploma and general population for the school's attended. This is the first year report of a 3 year project to provide a cohort of students with targeted instruction, GED passage, career exploration, and college readiness. The GED administered will be a prototype using the national State College Readiness standards.
Mary Fulton

Shining a Light on College Remediation in Colorado - 2 views

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    Analysis of ACT and 10th-grade CSAP scores shows that students needing remediation in their first year of college could have been identified by an examination of assessment results as early as 6th grade. The Colorado departments of K-12 and higher education jointly developed a description of postsecondary and workforce readiness. (Colorado Department of Education and Colorado Department of Higher Education, March 2011)
Bruce Vandal

Building a Statway to Heaven: Creating New Pathways to and through College Mathematics ... - 2 views

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    Video presentation from Uri Treisman on the Dana Center and Carnegie Foundation on their efforts to create multiple pathways from high school to postsecondary education in math
Mary Fulton

VDOE, SCHEV & VCCS Agree on College & Career Ready Performance Expectations for English... - 2 views

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    The Virginia agencies responsible for secondary and postsecondary education have approved an agreement on the performance expectations in English and mathematics high school graduates must meet to be successful in freshman-level college courses or career training.
Bruce Vandal

Developmental Education Portland Community College - 2 views

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    Portland Community College encourages students to forgo traditional developmental education courses and instead use learning labs and tutoring to address their developmental education needs.
Bruce Vandal

Saving Now and Saving Later: How High School Reform Can Reduce the Nation's Wasted Reme... - 2 views

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    Brief by the Alliance for Excellent Education that improved high school readiness will reduce remediation rates and save states money.
Matt Smith

Assessing Developmental Assessment in Community Colleges - 2 views

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    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.
Lisa Levinson

Jobless dropouts head back to school for basic skills - 2 views

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    adults without basic reading or math skills return to school for basic skills in KY. Programs teach job skills and workplace vocabulary and encourages dual enrollment in ABE and community college.
Mary Fulton

2010 Colorado Legislative Report on Remedial Education - 2 views

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    Annual remedial report includes data on participation, student success and cost, as well as high school feedback data. This year's report includes detailed graduation information for remedial students. (Colorado Commission on Higher Education, February 2011)
Bruce Vandal

Community College Times-Developmental Education Page - 2 views

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    Community College Times page for stories on developmental education
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