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The Community College Research Center (CCRC) is part of the Insitute on Education and the Economy, Teacher's College, Columbia University. From their site: "CCRC"s mission is to conduct research on major issues affecting community colleges in the United States and to contribute to the development of practice and policy that expands access to higher education and promotes success for all students."

Overview of the study being conducted by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University. "In this study, CCRC will conduct multivariate analyses of the effects of participating in ALP on student pass rates in English 101 as well as on other measures, including rates of persistence and passing college-level courses in subjects other than English."

CCRC brief #40, published by Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University, Feb 2009. The brief, based on a longer paper, finds that developmental education is not particularly effective, and recommends for broad reforms better assessment, tracking students through early college years, and blurring the line between "developmental" and "college-level" students. The full paper is available as a PDF from this page.

By Ryan Brown in the Community Colleges section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 18 2011. The article reports on a recent CCRC study of 51,000 community college students in Washington State between 2004 and 2009. In 2010, CCRC released a similar study looking at online learning in the Virginia community college system. Reasons for this gap are surmised to be "technical difficulties, a lack of structure, and isolation."

Announcement of a Summary Report produced by Community College Research Center (CCRC) by Davis Jenkins, Shanna Smith Jaggars & Josipa Roksa, November 2009. The analysis looked at the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), studying a dataset of 24,140 first-time college students who enrolled in at least one VCCS course in summer or fall 2004. A PDF of the summary is available from this page, as is a link to the full-length technical version.

Overview of the study being conducted by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University. This study will look at seven specific research strategies within four different community college systems (in four different states). This page includes links to past and future presentations being given on this project.

By Scott Jaschik, in Inside Higher Ed, Dec 3, 2009. Announces the release of a study by Community College Research Center of Columbia University Teachers College (CCRC) looking at student success in community college "gatekeeper" courses.

By Katherine L. Hughes and Judith Scott-Clayton, published by Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, Feb 2011. From the report description: "This paper examines the extent of consensus regarding the role of developmental assessment and how it is best implemented, the validity of the most common assessments currently in use, and emerging directions in assessment policy and practice." A PDF of the full paper is available from this web page.

By Thomas Bailey, Dong Wook Jeong and Sung-Woo Cho, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University in Economics of Education Review, Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 255-270. "The purpose of this paper is to analyze the patterns and determinants of student progression through sequences of developmental education starting from initial referral. Our results indicate that fewer than one half of the students who are referred to remediation actually complete the entire sequence to which they are referred..."

For GSCC faculty, there is a copy of this article available in Coffee Klatch