| 来源类型 | Report
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| Beyond ready, fire, aim: New solutions to old problems in college remediation |
| Angela Boatman
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| 发表日期 | 2014-03-25
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| 出版年 | 2014
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Download the PDF
Executive Summary
College completion remains a major problem in the United States. Less than 60 percent of students enrolling in four-year colleges graduate within six years, and only 30 percent of students seeking an associate’s degree who enroll full time in a community college receive that degree within three years. Some estimates suggest that only one-third of high school graduates complete high school ready for college coursework, and far fewer adult students are ready for postsecondary study.
In response, American high schools have begun experimenting with a variety of new interventions designed to identify students’ academic needs earlier, and colleges have adopted new strategies to help students advance more efficiently and effectively to help shorten their time to degree. Many of these interventions have occurred in and around remedial (developmental) education and attempt to better support students’ academic needs through improved instructional practice, often through the use of technology such as self-directed learning labs, online-learning models, and high-tech classrooms.
The size and scope of these interventions in remedial and developmental education have garnered a great deal of attention recently, particularly on those efforts that are dependent on emerging technologies. A growing body of research has emerged studying the effects of these new interventions on student outcomes such as persistence, credit accumulation, grade-point average in college-level courses, and degree attainment. While there is evidence to suggest that certain practices are promising, these evaluations tend to exist only in isolation. Despite all the new activity in the market, our understanding of “what works” to help educate underprepared students has not always kept pace with the development of new approaches. We have no shortage of solutions, but are they actually addressing the right problems?
This paper takes an early look at several new interventions in developmental education and provides a structure to help institutional leaders and policymakers evaluate these efforts and the challenges they may face. Most importantly, we must do a better job of identifying the problems developmental education aims to solve and of ensuring these problems are matched with appropriate solutions specific to the needs of individual students and institutions.
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| 主题 | Higher Education
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| 标签 | Center on Higher Education Reform
; College costs
; education
; Higher education
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/beyond-ready-fire-aim-new-solutions-to-old-problems-in-college-remediation/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/205962
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