Research Projects

March 2012–August 2016

CCRC researchers examined multiple aspects of the developmental education reforms in the community college systems in North Carolina in Virginia.

March 2012–August 2016

CCRC partnered with community college agencies to extend analyses of student progression, course-taking patterns, transfer, and completion at the college level to the state or system level.

March 2012–August 2016

CCRC developed analytics and prototyped tools that colleges could use to improve student progress tracking, advising, and program design as part of learner-relationship management systems.

March 2012–August 2016

CCRC examined placement exam costs in an urban community college system with centralized assessment and placement policies and a statewide system with variation across institutions.

June 2014–May 2016

CCRC was part of a national technical assistance team that worked with two-year colleges in Arkansas to improve student outcomes by creating more highly structured and educationally coherent pathways to student end goals.

May 2011–February 2016

CCRC was a national technical assistance team partner organization in Completion by Design, which worked with colleges in four states to increase college completion rates.

March 2012–May 2015

This project extended CCRC’s previous research on remedial placement accuracy to examine the distribution of placement errors across demographic categories and by high school.

July 2011–December 2014

This study examined how different kinds of state performance funding programs have been implemented in Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee.

May 2013–June 2014

This project examined the process and challenges of implementing a revised student success course at CUNY's Bronx Community college and evaluated the outcomes of participating students.

March 2011–April 2014

This research and implementation project examined how instructional innovation in developmental education can enhance students’ learning and persistence.

September 2010–August 2013

CCRC collaborated with Macomb Community College to identify and address complexities in the institutional system that create confusion or pose other challenges to students.

May 2009–July 2013

CCRC conducted several studies on the entry assessments used by community colleges to assign students to remedial or college-level courses.

May 2009–July 2013

Using student record data from City University of New York (CUNY) community colleges, CCRC examined developmental assessment and placement policies and programmatic interventions.

May 2009–July 2013

This study explored factors affecting students’ patterns of progression from developmental education through introductory college-level or “gatekeeper” math and English courses.

May 2009–July 2013

CCRC evaluated the I-BEST program model, which pairs basic skills and career–technical instructors in the classroom so that students gain basic and occupational skills simultaneously.

May 2009–July 2013

This study examined the organization and practices of community and technical college occupational programs that enable low-income young adults to complete credentials and obtain employment.

May 2009–May 2013

Each paper in this series synthesizes evidence from the research literature to draw conclusions on a particular topic and provide recommendations to practitioners, policymakers, and researchers.

February 2010–April 2013

With the Institute for Higher Education Leadership, CCRC is leading an evaluation of the Student Achievement Initiative, a policy to reward colleges for improvements in student achievement.

November 2005–April 2013

CCRC evaluated the “culture of evidence” model of institutional improvement that was being tested by Achieving the Dream’s participating colleges.

February 2012–February 2013

CCRC studied dual enrollment in Tennessee and several peer states to generate a set of policy recommendations for consideration by Tennessee policymakers during the 2013 legislative session.

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