Publications

This guide is intended to help researchers in colleges and state agencies use longitudinal student unit record data to create simple and meaningful statistics on student achievement.

This study examines the ways that student support services in community colleges inadvertently perpetuate and legitimate disadvantage.

CCRC researcher Melinda Mechur Karp reviews After Admission: From College Access to College Success.

This book chapter reviews three dominant strategies to create academic linkages between high school and college—remediation, dual enrollment, and the high school/college alignment movement.

This report, written for the Connecticut Community College System, summarizes key findings on effective developmental education practice.

This paper reveals unique findings from a study that compared educational outcomes of older and traditional-age students.

This brief reports the findings from a CCRC study on the effectiveness of student success courses at Florida community colleges.

This report describes the early progress that the first 27 Achieving the Dream colleges made after one year of implementation.

This report, the first in CCRC's Culture of Evidence Series, presents findings from a CCRC study on how community colleges are using their own data and research to work toward improving student success.

This working paper examines how Florida community colleges responded to the introduction of a new merit-based financial aid program.