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Does the Method of Acceleration Matter? Exploring the Likelihood of College Coursetaking Success Across Four Developmental Education Instructional Strategies: Technical Appendix
This study uses inverse probability-weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA) to explore variation in success rates in completion of Mathematics and English requirements over three years for Florida college students in developmental...
Researchers at the CPS have been conducting a longitudinal study of how Florida College System (FCS) institutions have implemented developmental education reform (SB 1720) on their campuses. As a part of this research report, CPS...
This report shares how the implementation of Florida Senate Bill 1720 (SB1720), a bill intended to address concerns about the cost and e effectiveness of developmental education (DE), has evolved and how administrators perceive its...
This multiple case study examines the extent and ways in which leaders and administrators in Florida College System (FCS) institutions engage in distributed leadership through data sharing with frontline staff. Based on focus groups and...
Researchers at the Center for Postsecondary Success (CPS) have been conducting a comprehensive study on how Florida College System (FCS) institutions have implemented the developmental education reform as stipulated by Senate Bill 1720 ...
Researchers at the Center for Postsecondary Success (CPS) are conducting a comprehensive evaluation of how FCS institutions have implemented the reform on their campuses. The first steps in the evaluation of SB 1720 included an analysis...
The Florida legislature passed Senate Bill 1720 (SB 1720) in 2013, making three substantial changes to developmental education statewide. The first change was that the majority of students became exempt from placement testing and...
Under Florida’s developmental education (DE) reform since 2014, recent public high school graduates and active-duty military personnel became exempt from DE and traditional placement tests. The legislation also required colleges to...
This study used data from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education to examine the leadership development of non-native English speakers during college. Results suggest that being a non-native English speaker is associated with...
The Center for Postsecondary Success at Florida State University has been studying the implementation and outcomes of SB 1720 since its initial implementation by surveying campus leaders across the FCS. This report explores the third set...
In 2013, the state of Florida passed Senate Bill 1720 (SB 1720), which dramatically restructured developmental education (DE) placement and instruction. Whereas DE was previously required for students testing below established levels on...
In 2013 the state of Florida passed Senate Bill 1720 (SB 1720) which dramatically reshaped developmental education (DE) for the 28 Florida College System (FCS) institutions. The legislation categorized students who entered a traditional...
Since the fall semester of 2014, Florida’s Senate Bill 1720 (SB 1720) initiated a major statewide developmental education reform in the Florida College System (FCS). Now that the reform has been underway for a few years, we use first...
The Florida legislature drastically restructured developmental education placement and instruction through Senate Bill 1720 (SB 1720) during the 2013 legislative session. There is a critical need to understand how colleges within the...
Florida Senate Bill 1720 drastically changed developmental education, beginning in fall 2014. This paper considers affected faculty members’ perceptions and experiences with the passage and implementation of reform, according to focus...
Under Florida Senate Bill 1720 (SB 1720), passed in 2013, institutions in the Florida College System (FCS) were required to implement comprehensive developmental education reform by fall 2014. The reform exempted recent graduates from...
Using data from a random sample of first-year students in the 2009 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), we compared engagement in educationally purposeful activities in college, a set of educational outcomes, and the...
This study explores the state of higher education research centers in the United States with a focus on center funding, organization, research topics, challenges, and opportunities. An online survey was disseminated in Spring 2017 to...
To address concerns about the cost and effectiveness of developmental education (DE), Florida lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1720 (SB 1720) in 2013. This bill required institutions in the Florida College System (FCS) to implement...
The Center for Postsecondary Success (CPS) at Florida State University, have been conducting a longitudinal study of how Florida College System (FCS) institutions have implemented developmental education reform (SB 1720) on their...
The FCS institutions plan to redesign instructional strategies, ramp up advising, and provide support services. The institutions generally favor modularized and compressed instruction, with all 28 colleges applying these course...
During the spring semester of 2015, The Center for Postsecondary Success (CPS) research team conducted a survey of high-level administrators across the FCS. The present study serves as the first quantitative point of contact with college...
Developmental education (DE) reform took place among the 28 Florida College System (FCS) institutions in 2014. In this study, we examine how cohort-based passing rates in college-level English and math courses changed at different...
Citing significant costs and poor completion rates as major factors necessitating reform, the Florida Legislature passed Senate Bill (SB) 1720 in 2013, which dramatically changes the rules as to how developmental education is delivered...
In 2013, Florida legislators passed Senate Bill 1720 (SB 1720) which made three substantial changes to developmental education statewide. First, developmental education courses became optional for many students who would have been...
In year two of DE reform implementation across the FCS institutions, CPS researchers conducted two-day site visits to each of eight FCS institutions in fall 2015 and spring 2016. In this report we present findings from our analysis of...
Probability of Success: Evaluation of Florida's Developmental Education Redesign Based on Cohorts of First-Time-In-College Students from 2009-10 to 2014-15
Through the enactment of Senate Bill 1720 (SB 1720), the Florida legislature dramatically changed how developmental education (DE) is offered and for whom it is required. Historically, many students would have been required, based on...
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