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ALP at Community College of Baltimore County, Conference dates: June 24th-25th, 2010.

Hotel hosting Camp TAG-a-Lot in Baltimore, August 9-12, 2010.

ALP, developed at the Community College Baltimore County, is an innovative approach to basic writing programs that accelerates basic writing students through their developmental writing course and ENG 101 in one semester.

By Evan Weissman, Dan Cullinan, Oscar Cerna, Stephanie Safran and Phoebe Richman, with Amanda Grossman. National Center for Postsecondary Research (NCPR) Teachers College Columbia University. February 2012. Link to full report at the bottom of the summary on this page. The colleges in this study are two of six in the NCPR Learning Communities Demonstration, in which random assignment evaluations are being used to determine the impacts of learning communities on student success. NCPR has presented finding from all six colleges. They show that when one-semester learning communities have impacts, they tend to be concentrated in the semester in which students are enrolled in the program. Another report, a final one will be released in 2012. That report synthesizes the findings across all colleges studied and includes an additional semester of student follow-up at each college.

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."