Teaching Academically Underprepared Students in Community Colleges
This chapter discusses instructional approaches intended to prepare initially low-skilled college entrants for the reading, writing, and mathematics skills they need to learn from the postsecondary curriculum.
Development, Discouragement, or Diversion? New Evidence on the Effects of College Remediation
This paper finds that remediation does little to develop students’ skills but does not discourage initial enrollment or persistence, except among students identified as potentially misassigned.
Adoption and Adaptation: A Framework for Instructional Reform
This edition of Inside Out, a publication of CCRC’s Scaling Innovation project, outlines a three-part framework for colleges looking to adopt and adapt a developmental education reform.
Predicting Success in College: The Importance of Placement Tests and High School Transcripts
This paper uses student-level data from a statewide community college system to examine the validity of placement tests and high school information in predicting course grades and college performance.
Do High-Stakes Placement Exams Predict College Success?
This paper analyzes the predictive validity of one of the most commonly used placement exams using data on over 42,000 first-time entrants in a large, urban community college system.