Research Projects
November 2017–August 2020
CCRC is partnering with the Tennessee Board of Regents and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges to produce a series of practitioner-oriented research reports and briefs as well as a field guide with associated tools to help practitioners implementing pathways measure the effectiveness and costs of their reforms.
July 2017–July 2021
In partnership with Education Northwest (EdNW), CCRC tested the usability of Lesson Study among instructors teaching developmental mathematics at three community colleges in Oregon.
November 2016–December 2019
Through this project, CCRC will provide practitioners and policymakers with actionable findings that can be used to plan, implement, and refine developmental English, developmental reading, and ESL reforms and to improve postsecondary literacy outcomes.
January 2017–May 2019
CCRC is conducting research on the implementation of the CUNY ASAP scale-up at Bronx Community College, using data gathered from interviews and discussions with students, administrators, and faculty to inform and refine the implementation process in real time.
September 2016–April 2019
CCRC is conducting a formative evaluation of the Mathematics Pathways to Completion (MPC) focusing on the state-level and institutional-level conditions necessary to scale math pathways across colleges.
January 2017–May 2020
CCRC is assessing the effectiveness of the career guidance strategies two leading Florida community colleges are implementing as part of larger guided pathways reforms they are implementing.
July 2016–December 2020
CCRC and MDRC are working with colleges in Minnesota and Wisconsin to build and evaluate high-quality multiple measures assessment (MMA) systems.
September 2016–September 2022
CCRC is working with the Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC), the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE), and the state’s 23 community and technical colleges to create guided pathways for students to postsecondary credentials and careers.
May 2016–November 2019
With CCRC, this Achieving the Dream (ATD) project seeks to build institutional capacity to better integrate and engage adjunct faculty in student success initiatives and to understand and address the opportunities and challenges faced by colleges employing part-time faculty.
May 2016–July 2018
CCRC is working with NAF to conduct research on NAF students’ postsecondary outcomes as well as students’ experiences in the transition from high school to college.
August 2015–August 2022
Over the course of this three-year project, CCRC will seek to build knowledge and tools that will help practitioners implement effective guided pathways reforms.
January 2016–December 2016
CCRC studied the outcomes of students who transfer from Macomb Community College, their success rates at various destination institutions, and the factors that underlie their success and failure.
March 2015–September 2018
CCRC is evaluating a project to test and expand Kentucky’s online, personalized, competency-based learning system for training IT workers in the computer and medical fields.
September 2015–December 2017
CCRC is partnering with Public Agenda and the Aspen Institute to promote the widespread adoption of high-impact strategies for improving degree completion among students who start in community colleges seeking bachelor’s degrees.
January 2016–June 2018
This project will examine stackable sub-baccalaureate credentials within three state higher education systems. Given the pressures on colleges to offer these credentials and the need for skills accumulation by workers, we expect the results of this study to be an important contribution to the discussion on the design of postsecondary credentials and their impact on the labor market.
November 2015–December 2016
This project investigated Texas’ transfer outcomes, transfer policies, and community college students’ decisions about transfer to shed light on incentives for desirable student-level and institution-level transfer-related behaviors and policies that might influence those behaviors.
October 2015–June 2019
CCRC is examining whether American Honors students are more likely than similar students to persist and transfer.
September 2015–August 2016
CCRC explored the pathways of community college students who eventually transfer and earn bachelor’s degrees in computer science fields, including their enrollment patterns, transfer behaviors, and time to completion.
May 2011–June 2012
CCRC and JBL Associates evaluated Tennessee's efforts to increase structure in community college programs and strengthen connections between community colleges and adult career centers.
October 2014–September 2016
The goal of this project was to encourage and enable colleges and universities to replicate highly effective, scaled transfer practices that substantially increase associate and bachelor’s degree completion across fields, with a special focus on STEM.
