Unlocking Opportunity: Progress Moving More Students Toward Good Jobs
This report details promising early effects of reform at ten colleges participating in the Unlocking Opportunity network and provides recommendations for how community colleges can strengthen program value and help more students access good jobs and bachelor’s degrees.
Supporting Self-Directed Learning in Online Courses: Findings From a Pilot Study
Drawing on faculty and student survey data and interviews, this brief reports on a pilot study of the SDL Instructional Model and finds that faculty and students perceived the model as valuable and distinct from typical practice in online courses.
Self-Directed Learning Instructional Model
This model offers a set of research-based strategies designed to help students more effectively manage their learning in online and hybrid courses, includes guidance for instructors, and provides recommendations for adopting and scaling the strategies across institutions.
Reframing Support: A Social Network Perspective on Whom First-Generation Students Turn to for Help
This report uses student survey and interview data from four California colleges to examine how first-generation college students build relationships and use support networks on- and off-campus to address academic and nonacademic challenges in the first year of college.
Dual Enrollment Momentum Metrics: Leading Indicators for Program Improvement
Through an analysis of longitudinal student data from four states, this brief introduces a set of metrics predictive of subsequent postsecondary progress that educators can use as momentum indicators for dual enrollment program improvement.