Three Accelerated Developmental Education Programs: Features, Student Outcomes, and Implications
This study examines three developmental acceleration programs—two in English and one in math—and finds that accelerated students were more likely to complete the relevant college-level course within 3 years.
Redesigning Arithmetic for Student Success: Supporting Faculty to Teach in New Ways
This chapter describes a promising approach to teaching developmental arithmetic and prealgebra and presents findings on a faculty support network that helped instructors adopt new teaching strategies.
Remedial Placement Testing in Community Colleges: What Resources Are Required, and What Does It Cost?
Using detailed data from three community colleges, the authors of this study employ the ingredients method to estimate the costs to colleges and students of remedial placement systems at community college.
Improving the Targeting of Treatment: Evidence From College Remediation
This paper uses administrative data and a rich predictive model to examine the accuracy of remedial screening tests, used either with or instead of high school transcript data to determine remedial assignment.
The Effects of English as a Second Language Courses on Language Minority Community College Students
This study uses a difference-in-differences approach to identify the impact of ESL compared with developmental writing at an urban community college system.