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Check under the panels listed below to download papers and presentations. (Note: Not all presenters have PowerPoints.)

PANEL 1 — Background Data and General Effects File Availability
         
Presentation:  

"Developmental Education Outcomes" (Thomas Bailey)

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  • Student Progression Through Developmental Sequences in Community Colleges [Brief Report] (Thomas Bailey, Dong Wook Jeong, and Sung-Woo Cho)
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  • Rethinking Developmental Education in Community College [Brief Report] (Thomas Bailey)
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  • Challenge and Opportunity: Rethinking the Role and Function of Developmental Education in Community College [Working Paper] (Thomas Bailey)
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Presentation:   "Does Remediation Work for All Students? How the Effects of Postsecondary Remedial and Developmental Courses Vary by Level of Academic Preparation" (Bridget Terry Long and Angela Boatman)   PDF
   
  • Does Remediation Work for All Students? How the Effects of Postsecondary Remedial and Developmental Courses Vary by Level of Academic Preparation [Working Paper] (Bridget Terry Long and Angela Boatman)
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Presentation:   "The Role of State Policy in Improving Outcomes" (Michael Collins)   PDF
   
  • Setting up Success in Developmental Education: How State Policy Can Help Community Colleges Improve Student Outcomes [Policy Brief] (Michael Collins)
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  • The Developmental Education Initiative: State Policy Framework & Strategy [Report] (Michael Collins)
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PANEL 2 — Assessment and Placement File Availability
         
Presentation:   "Assessing Developmental Assessment in Community Colleges: A Review of the Literature" (Katherine Hughes and Judith Scott-Clayton)   PDF
   
  • Assessing Developmental Assessment in Community Colleges: A Review of the Literature [Working Paper] (Katherine Hughes and Judith Scott-Clayton)
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Presentation:   "Best Practices in Setting Cut-Scores in Postsecondary Education" (Deanna Morgan)   PDF
   
  • Best Practices for Setting Placement Cut Scores in Postsecondary Education [Working Paper] (Deanna Morgan)
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Presentation:   "One-Shot Deal: Students’ Perceptions of Assessment and Course Placement at the California Community Colleges" (Andrea Venezia, Kathy Bracco and Thad Nodine)   PDF
   
  • One-Shot Deal: Students’ Perceptions of Assessment and Course Placement at the California Community Colleges [Report] (Andrea Venezia, Kathy Bracco and Thad Nodine)
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Presentation:   "Replacing Remediation with Readiness" (David Conley)   PDF
   
  • Replacing Remediation with Readiness [Working Paper] (David T. Conley)
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PANEL 3 — Developmental Education Models File Availability
         
Presentation:   "Building Foundations for Student Readiness: A Review of Rigorous Research and Promising Trends in Developmental Education" (Elizabeth Zachry and Emily Schneider)    
   
  • Building Foundations for Student Readiness A Review of Rigorous Research and Promising Trends in Developmental Education [Working Paper] (Elizabeth Zachry and Emily Schneider)
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Presentation:   "Developmental Summer Bridge Programs: Implementation and Early Evidence From A Random Assignment Study " (Heather Wathington)   PDF
         
Presentation:   "Learning Communities for Students in Developmental Education: Early Impact Findings from Three Colleges" (Mary Visher)    
   
  • Learning Communities for Students in Developmental Reading: An Impact Study at Hillsborough Community College [Report] (Michael Weiss, Mary Visher and Heather Wathington)
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Presentation:   "Video-based Supplemental Instruction" (Glen Jacobs and Kim Wilcox)   PDF
   
  • Video-based Supplemental Instruction as an Alternative to Traditional Developmental Courses [Working Paper] (F. Kim Wilcox and Glen Jacobs)
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Presentation:   "Washington State's Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST)" (Davis Jenkins)   PDF
   
  • How I-BEST Works: Findings from a Field Study of Washington
    State’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training Program [Report] (John Wachen, Davis Jenkins and Michelle Van Noy)
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  • Washington State’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills
    Training Program (I-BEST): New Evidence of Effectiveness [Working Paper] (Matthew Zeidenberg, Sung-Woo Cho and Davis Jenkins)
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PANEL 4 — Pedagogy and Classroom Strategies File Availability
         
Presentation:   "Pedagogy and Classroom Strategies: Overview" (Nikki Edgecombe)   PDF
         
Presentation:   "The Quandaries of Basic Skills: Views from the Classroom" (Norton Grubb)    
   
  • The Quandaries of Basic Skills: Views from the Classroom [Working Paper] (Norton Grubb)
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Presentation:   "Improving Developmental Mathematics Education in Community Colleges: A Prospectus and Early Status Report on the Statway Initiative" (Uri Treisman and Jenna Cullinane)    
   
  • Improving Developmental Mathematics Education in Community Colleges: A Prospectus and Early Status Report on the Statway Initiative [Working Paper] (Uri Treisman and Jenna Cullinane)
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Presentation:   "Contextualized Reading-Writing Intervention Study" (Dolores Perin)    
   
  • A Contextualized Reading-Writing Intervention for Community College Students [Brief Report] (Dolores Perin and Rachel Hare)
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Breakout Session:   BC3: Contextualized Reading-Writing Intervention Study (Negar Farakish and Dolores Perin)   PDF
 

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Webinar Downloads

NCPR hosted a web conference on December 15, 2010 that created an opportunity for participants to continue discussion that arose at the conference. » More Information » View Recording » Download PDF (of the PowerPoint presentation)