Redesigning Community Colleges for Completion: Lessons From Research on High-Performance Organizations (Assessment of Evidence Series)
Based on practices found to be effective among a broad range of high-performance organizations, this paper outlines practical steps community colleges can take to bring about continuous improvement in student learning and progression.
The Shapeless River: Does a Lack of Structure Inhibit Students’ Progress at Community Colleges? (Assessment of Evidence Series)
Evidence from behavioral economics and psychology lends support for the idea that students are more likely to persist and succeed in programs with highly structured paths to completion.
A Contextualized Intervention for Community College Developmental Reading and Writing Students
This paper provides evidence on the potential efficacy of a contextualized approach in helping students develop an important academic skill, written summarization.
Turning the Tide: Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges
This interim report examines the experiences of the first 26 colleges to join Achieving the Dream, which helps community colleges collect and analyze student performance data to increase student success.
Faculty Validation and Persistence Among Nontraditional Community College Students
This paper examines the influence of validation by faculty on students’ sense of integration in college and intent to persist.