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Download full textSnell, Myra – RP Group, 2023
For California's community colleges, fall 2019 marked the deadline for implementing the state's historic developmental education legislation, Assembly Bill 705 (Irwin 2017). AB 705 drove transformative changes in community college math and English programs as colleges implemented research-based placement policies designed to maximize students'…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment Trends, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
RP Group, 2024
Assembly Bill 1705 (AB 1705) seeks to strengthen students' completion of the first STEM Calculus course for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) programs across the California Community Colleges. The law sets new standards for students' placement and first math enrollment to ensure STEM students begin in transfer-level coursework that…
Descriptors: State Legislation, State Standards, College Preparation, STEM Education
Fagioli, Loris; Newell, Mallory – RP Group, 2022
Implementation of AB 705 in fall 2019 required California community colleges to use high school grade point average (HSGPA) as the main measure of placement and maximize the likelihood of students being placed into transfer-level English and math courses. Since that time, research has shown that with the vast increase in access to transfer-level…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Community Colleges, High School Students, Grade Point Average
RP Group, 2024
Assembly Bill 1705 (AB 1705) seeks to strengthen students' completion of the first STEM Calculus course for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) programs across the California Community Colleges. The law sets new standards for students' placement and first math enrollment to ensure STEM students begin in transfer-level coursework that…
Descriptors: State Legislation, STEM Education, Calculus, Community College Students
Direct linkRP Group, 2024
This technical appendix accompanies the report, "Preparatory Pathways and STEM Calculus Completion: Implications of the AB 1705 Standards." The appendices contain a full methods section and multivariate analyses that augment the descriptive analyses presented in the report. Together, these analyses examined a cohort of more than 37,000…
Descriptors: State Legislation, STEM Education, Calculus, Community College Students
Brohawn, Katie; Newell, Mallory; Fagioli, Loris – RP Group, 2021
Colleges across the California Community College (CCC) system have been preparing for changes to their assessment and placement processes associated with the required implementation of Assembly Bill (AB) 705. While many initiatives were already underway to increase students' completion of their education, including Guided Pathways and the Student…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
Willett, Terrence; Hayward, Craig; Newell, Mallory – RP Group, 2018
California Assembly Bill (AB) 705 authored by Irwin and passed on October 13, 2017, requires colleges to "maximize the probability that a student will enter and complete transfer-level coursework in English and math within a one-year timeframe" and use high school background data in placement processes. To implement this new law and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Grade Point Average, Statistics Education
