Publications

This publication identifies current organizational and instructional approaches to developmental education in community colleges and recommends a process by which colleges can make institutionally appropriate decisions to improve developmental education outcomes.

This journal article details a case study on 15 community colleges across the United States and includes findings revealing important means of increasing students' academic preparedness for postsecondary study.

This report looks at the structure of literacy and adult education in the United States, with a focus on the role of community colleges.

This paper reports on findings from a qualitative study that examined students' academic preparedness and assessment and placement policies in 15 U.S. community colleges.

This journal article discusses the performance of community college remedial writing students on a task that required them to compose an informational report from sources.

This article provides information on two major settings for literacy education for adults: adult basic education and community college remedial programs.

This article discusses mainstreaming and centralization, two ways in which community colleges organize developmental education.

This journal article discusses a study that investigated the effects of task repetition on the writing skills of upper level developmental reading students.

The journal article describes CCRC's case study research on remediation, which shows that there is more to remediation than traditional developmental education programs.

This report offers insight into how research evaluating the effectiveness of remedial education can be improved to shed light on how these programs can be improved.