In Inside Higher Ed today there was a reference to a study just released this month from the National Center for Postsecondary Research -- "Getting Ready for College: An Implementation and Early Impacts Study of Eight Texas Developmental Summer Bridge Programs."
When I accessed and read the executive summary I got pretty excited to learn that two of the Alamo Colleges, St. Philip's College and Palo Alto College, were two of the eight colleges!
Among the findings:
- "While students in the program and control groups attempted at least one math course at similar rates, students who participated in a developmental summer bridge program went on to attempt the first college-level math course at a significantly higher rate than students in the control group. A significantly higher percentage of program group students passes this first college-level math course."
- "Program group students were also significantly more likely to attempt a college-level reading course and significantly less likely to attempt the lowest level of developmental reading."
- "Significantly more program group students than control group students attempted at least one writing course and passed their first college-level writing course.
- "...during the 2009-2010 academic year, students in the program group attempted one more college-level credit than students in the control group."
It is a wonderful thing to see a national publication highlighting the great work in developmental education accomplished here at our colleges!
Link to the complete report (PDF)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tc.columbia.edu/i/a/document/DSBReport.pdf