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
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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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