Learning Communities for Developmental Education Students: A Synthesis of Findings from Randomized Experiments at Six Community Colleges

Autor/inn/en	Weiss, Michael J.; Visher, Mary; Weissman, Evan
Institution	Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE)
Titel	Learning Communities for Developmental Education Students: A Synthesis of Findings from Randomized Experiments at Six Community Colleges
Quelle	(2012), (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Outcomes of Education; Community Colleges; Educational Objectives; Developmental Studies Programs; Educational Experiments; Two Year College Students; Academic Support Services; Remedial Programs; English Instruction; Remedial Mathematics; Grouping (Instructional Purposes); Comparative Analysis; Demonstration Programs; Experimental Groups; Control Groups; Academic Records; Grades (Scholastic); Interviews; Focus Groups; Statistical Analysis; Program Effectiveness; Student Characteristics; Federal Programs; California; Florida; Maryland; New York; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Community college; Community College; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Developmental studies; Developmental psychology; Study; Studies; Entwicklungspsychologie; Studium; Schulversuch; Förderprogramm; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Grouping; Gruppenbildung; College; Colleges; University; Universities; Publication; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Universität; Akademieschrift; Publikation; Notenspiegel; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Statistische Analyse; Kalifornien
Abstract	Community college stakeholders are searching with increasing urgency for approaches with the potential to improve the success rates for community college students, particularly those in need of developmental education. "Learning communities," which place cohorts of students together in two or more courses for one semester, are a popular instructional reform community colleges are implementing to improve the outcomes of developmental education students, and have previously been associated with positive social, psychological, and academic outcomes in non-experimental and quasi-experimental research (Engstrom & Tinto, 2008; Stefanou & Salisbury-Glennon, 2002; Tinto, 1997; Tinto, 1998; Zhao & Kuh, 2004). This paper synthesizes results from six random assignment evaluations of developmental education learning communities programs. Five of the six programs were part of the National Center for Postsecondary Research's (NCPR) Learning Communities Demonstration, and the sixth was studied as part of MDRC's Opening Doors Demonstration. The primary question addressed in this study is whether learning communities, compared to "business as usual," lead to better educational outcomes for students who are placed into developmental English and math in community colleges. The authors also examine whether the effects of learning communities vary across colleges and subgroups. (Contains 4 figures, 2 tables, and 6 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10