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Snell, 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
Mejia, Marisol Cuellar; Rodriguez, Olga; Johnson, Hans – Public Policy Institute of California, 2019
This document is intended to be a companion piece for a report entitled "What Happens When Colleges Broaden Access to Transfer-Level Courses? Evidence from California's Community Colleges." It contains the technical appendices as follows: (1) College Profiles; (2) Additional Insights from our Interviews; (3) Data and Methods; (4) Caveat…
Descriptors: Courses, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Placement
Burn, Helen E.; Mesa, Vilma; Wood, J. Luke; Zamani-Gallaher, Eboni – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2018
Transitioning Learners to Calculus in Community Colleges (TLC3) is a research project aimed at transforming institutional approaches to matriculating underrepresented racial minority (URM) students into and through Calculus II in the nation's 1,023 public associate degree-granting institutions (community colleges). The broader goal of the TLC3…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Department Heads, Mathematics Teachers
Mejia, Marisol Cuellar; Rodriguez, Olga; Johnson, Hans – Public Policy Institute of California, 2016
In its current form, developmental education may be one of the largest impediments to success in California's community colleges. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students are deemed underprepared for college and placed into developmental (also known as remedial or basic-skills) courses. Yet most never earn a degree or certificate, or transfer…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Readiness
Mejia, Marisol Cuellar; Rodriguez, Olga; Johnson, Hans – Public Policy Institute of California, 2016
This document presents the technical appendix that accompanies the full report, "Preparing Students for Success in California's Community Colleges." The appendix includes Data and Methods. [Supported with funding from the Sutton Family Fund. For the full report, see ED570976.]
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Readiness
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2010
This system summary highlights the high school graduates who attended a community or technical college in the year following graduation (Part A and B). Part C provides information on the students who delayed enrollment at the college for one or two years after high school graduation. Part D describes the expenditures for pre-college courses.…
Descriptors: College Students, Technical Institutes, High School Graduates, Associate Degrees
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2009
This report provides system-level summary highlights of pre-college course-taking behavior of high school graduates who attended a community or technical college in the year following graduation, and of those who delayed enrollment at the college for one or two years after high school graduation. The report contains information on these enrollment…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Courses, Student Characteristics, Racial Differences
Emmons, Joseph – 1988
In October 1986, the Kansas State Board of Education included basic skills education as part of the role, scope and mission statements of the state's community colleges. In 1988, a study was conducted to assess the status of postsecondary remedial/developmental education. Study findings, based on semester enrollment figures for fall 1987, included…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Courses, Developmental Studies Programs, Enrollment Trends
Rosenwasser, Marie – 1986
A research project was conducted by the Council on Learning Assistance (CLAS) to gain a clearer understanding of the extent and nature of basic skills education in Washington's community colleges. During the study, course information and enrollment statistics for 1984-85 were solicited from CLAS representatives and deans of instruction in an…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Courses, Developmental Studies Programs
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Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1990
In 1989, a study was conducted of the status of student assessment and developmental education in Michigan's 29 public community colleges and three public four-year colleges which serve in a community college capacity. The study sought to to determine: (1) the number of community college students in need of and actually enrolled in developmental…
Descriptors: College Credits, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Courses