Expanding access to college-level courses: early findings from an experimental study of multiple measures assessment and placement

Colleges throughout the United States are evaluating the strategies used to decide whether students should be placed into college-level or developmental education courses. Usually, colleges use standardized placement tests to determine if students need developmental, or remedial, courses, which are designed to develop the reading, writing, or math skills of students deemed underprepared for college-level courses. However, increasing numbers of colleges are using multiple measures - including additional types of placement tests, high school transcripts, and evaluations of student motivation - t... Show more

Authors: Cullinan, Dan; Barnett, Elisabeth A.; Kopko, Elizabeth ... [+] Show more

Published: New York, New York, CCRC and MDRC, 2019

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: xi, 44 p. (report) + vii, 7 p. (executive summary)

Access item: https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/publications/expanding-access-college-level-courses.html

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