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By Jay Matthews in the Class Struggle column, The Washington Post, May 5 2011. Matthews writes about the recently published study, Assessing Developmental Assessment in Community Colleges (see tag assess_study), which finds that it might be the assessment process itself that is failing developmental ed students, rather than the content or delivery of the developmental ed 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.