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Download full textMokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background/Context: Accelerated instructional strategies for developmental education have been promoted as a way to help underprepared students to progress more quickly through college-level coursework. Yet, what remains unknown is whether certain accelerated strategies are more effective than others and whether this initial acceleration may lead…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, English Instruction, Acceleration (Education), Developmental Programs
Direct linkHu, Xinye; Hu, Shouping – Research in Higher Education, 2022
Developmental education (DE) reform took place among the 28 Florida College System (FCS) institutions in 2014. In this study, we examine how cohort-based passing rates in college-level English and math courses changed at different colleges for pre- and post-policy period and explore what institutional characteristics were related with various…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, State Legislation
Park, Toby; Woods, Chenoa S.; Richard, Keith; Tandberg, David; Hu, Shouping; Bertrand Jones, Tamara – Innovative Higher Education, 2016
Historically, college students needing additional academic preparation have been assigned to developmental/remedial courses. In 2013 Florida took a drastic departure from this model by passing Senate Bill 1720, which prohibited institutions from requiring placement tests and made developmental education optional for many students, regardless of…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Course Selection (Students), Decision Making, College Students
Zhao, Kai; Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – AERA Open, 2022
Under Florida's developmental education (DE) reform since 2014, recent public high school graduates and active-duty military personnel became exempt from DE and traditional placement tests. The legislation also required colleges to provide accelerated instruction strategies for students remaining in DE and offer enhanced advising and support…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Community Colleges, Student Placement
Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Research in Higher Education, 2021
Florida passed legislation in 2013 that exempted many students from developmental education, and required colleges to implement new instructional modalities for optional developmental education courses. This paper uses an economic model of remediation to examine how changes in college course taking before and after the reform altered costs to…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Equal Education, Costs, Developmental Studies Programs
Mokher, Christine G.; Spencer, Hayley; Park, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
We explore institutional change and organizational learning in higher education in the context of a large-scale reform of developmental education in Florida. We use statewide survey data to examine administrators' perceptions of the use and effectiveness of accountability metrics, methods to identify solutions to improve student outcomes, and…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Higher Education, College Administration, Administrator Attitudes
Mokher, Christine G.; Spencer, Hayley; Park, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Grantee Submission, 2020
We explore institutional change and organizational learning in higher education in the context of a large-scale reform of developmental education in Florida. We use statewide survey data to examine administrators' perceptions of the use and effectiveness of accountability metrics, methods to identify solutions to improve student outcomes, and…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Higher Education, College Administration, Administrator Attitudes
Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby; Hu, Shouping – Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Since the 2000s, states have experimented with reforms to improve success among underprepared students traditionally assigned to developmental education (DE). Florida's reform under Senate Bill 1720 has been among the most comprehensive and wide-reaching. Recent public high school graduates and military personnel became exempt from DE, but nearly…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Programs, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Grantee Submission, 2020
Florida passed legislation in 2013 that exempted many students from developmental education, and required colleges to implement new instructional modalities for optional developmental education courses. This paper uses an economic model of remediation to examine how changes in college course taking before and after the reform altered costs to…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Equal Education, Costs, Developmental Studies Programs
Zhao, Kai; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Mokhe, Christine G.; Hu, Shouping – Community College Review, 2022
Objective: In 2014, Florida implemented Senate Bill 1720 (SB 1720), which drastically reshaped developmental education practices across the 28 public state colleges. Under the reform, around two-thirds of students became exempt from developmental education. Yet, many students were still required to take the placement test. If they scored below…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, State Colleges, College Students
Nix, Amanda N.; Bertrand Jones, Tamara; Hu, Shouping – Grantee Submission, 2020
When it comes to the creation of higher education policy, state legislators are challenged with addressing the diverse academic needs of college students enrolled across a spectrum of institutions. In this paper, we explore how 203 individuals at five rural-serving colleges in Florida engaged in state-wide developmental education (DE) reform using…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Community Colleges, Educational Change, Program Implementation
Brower, Rebecca L.; Bertrand Jones, Tamara; Hu, Shouping; Park-Gaghan, Toby J. – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background: This multiple case study explores the self-determination needs of academically underprepared students. The context for our study was a sweeping redesign of developmental education (DE) in Florida's community colleges, state-level legislation Senate Bill 1720 (SB 1720), which made DE optional for many students. Purpose of Study: The…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Two Year College Students
Brower, Rebecca L.; Bertrand Jones, Tamara; Hu, Shouping; Park-Gaghan, Toby J. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Background: This multiple case study explores the self-determination needs of academically underprepared students. The context for our study was a sweeping redesign of developmental education (DE) in Florida's community colleges, state-level legislation Senate Bill 1720 (SB 1720), which made DE optional for many students. Purpose of Study: The…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Two Year College Students
One Policy, Disparate Reactions: Institutional Responses in Florida's Developmental Education Reform
Park, Toby J.; Tandberg, David A.; Hu, Shouping; Hankerson, Dava – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
This paper seeks to better understand how community colleges in Florida planned to implement a new sweeping state policy pertaining to developmental education. Via a cluster analysis, we identify three distinct patterns in the ways in which the colleges responded to the policy: reformers, responders, and resisters. Further, we find that these…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Change, Community Colleges, State Policy
Woods, Chenoa S.; Park, Toby; Hu, Shouping; Bertrand Jones, Tamara – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Academic underpreparedness is an issue for many first-time-in-college students, particularly those entering community colleges. Whereas many underprepared students enroll in developmental education, research has indicated that traditional remediation may not increase students' chances for success. Therefore, states and colleges have begun to…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Enrollment, College Freshmen, Community Colleges
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