Nuances of Completion: Improving Student Outcomes by Unpacking the Numbers
This publication examines the hidden complexity of completion outcome data and offers an approach to teasing out the complex factors that affect student completion in order to boost student success.
Principles of Redesign: Promising Approaches to Transforming Student Outcomes
This publication presents eight core ideas to help community college leaders and practitioners address the fundamental challenges to student success.
Characterizing the Effectiveness of Developmental Education: A Response to Recent Criticism
In response to a journal article questioning CCRC’s claims about the effectiveness of developmental education, this essay discusses methodological concerns and other issues that may be a source of confusion.
The Common Core State Standards: Implications for Community Colleges and Student Preparedness for College
This NCPR working paper outlines the development of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the CCSS-aligned assessments and argues that they can be used to support the mission of community colleges.
Student Success Courses and Educational Outcomes at Virginia Community Colleges
Using administrative data from the Virginia Community College System, this paper examines the associations between student success course enrollment and short-term student outcomes.