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Download full textDaugherty, Lindsay; Miller, Trey; Gehlhaus Carew, Diana – Grantee Submission, 2019
RAND partnered with Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and American Institutes for Research to support the state's developmental education reform efforts through a combination of continuous improvement support and analysis of statewide data on implementation. One of the reforms examined through the study was the state's recommendation that…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Placement Tests, College Readiness
Direct linkLantz, Stacy Stairs – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of participation in the LifeSkills Training (LST) program on student outcomes regarding attendance, discipline, and mental health referrals. Four middle schools located in Western and Central Pennsylvania participated in the study. A total number of 231 participants from three schools…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Daily Living Skills, Training, Attendance
Edgecombe, Nikki – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
Acceleration, which involves the reorganization of instruction and curricula in ways that facilitate the completion of academic requirements in an expedited manner, is an increasingly popular strategy at community colleges for improving the outcomes of developmental education students. This paper reviews the literature on acceleration and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Teaching Methods, Acceleration (Education), Academic Achievement
Edgecombe, Nikki – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
Mounting evidence suggests that the traditional sequence of developmental education courses hinders community college students from entering college-level coursework and ultimately earning a credential. For example, using data from colleges participating in the Achieving the Dream initiative, an analysis by Bailey, Jeong, and Cho (2010) found that…
Descriptors: Evidence, Curriculum Design, Academic Achievement, Developmental Studies Programs
Bailey, Thomas; Jeong, Dong Wook; Cho, Sung-Woo – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2010
Developmental education is designed to provide students with weak academic skills the opportunity to strengthen those skills enough to prepare them for college-level coursework. The concept is simple enough--students who arrive unprepared for college are provided instruction to bring them up to an adequate level. In practice, developmental…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Enrollment, Two Year College Students
Schwartz, Sarah E. O.; Petersen, Sarah Bernhardt – New Directions for Youth Development, 2008
The RALLY practitioner implements RALLY's prevention and intervention strategies, working with all of the students in a class to deliver nonstigmatizing, developmentally based services. The practitioner model is based on the philosophy that relationships are key to allowing students to achieve their full health and academic potential. RALLY…
Descriptors: Intervention, Role Perception, Role Theory, Academic Support Services
Clery, Sue – Achieving the Dream, 2006
Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community College Count, this issue of "Data Notes" looks at the percentage of students referred to developmental education and, of those referred, the percentage that attempted and completed at least one developmental education course in their first and second terms. The data show that more than 80…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Academic Support Services, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences
