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CAPR: A Center for Developmental Education Research

CAPR researches, evaluates, and disseminates information on reforms to developmental education that are taking hold at open-access colleges around the U.S. Our current studies include:

  • A study of multiple measures placement in the corequisite context
  • A study of corequisite reforms in CUNY colleges
  • An effort to scale effective multiple measures assessment practices

Reports and summaries are available from our previous studies, which include a survey of the national landscape of developmental education, and research on math pathways, multiple measures placement, summer bridge programs, and computerized math remediation.

Of students who started at two-year public colleges in 2013–14, 60% took one or more remedial courses within three years.
At public two-year colleges, Black and Hispanic students take remedial courses at a rate more than 10 points higher than White students.
Nearly all community colleges used standardized placement exams in 2016. More than half also used other measures for placement.
A multiple measures algorithm used in a CAPR study resulted in changed placements for 26% of math students and 51% of English students.
Corequisite remediation allows more students to pass gateway math and English.
A quarter of students in alternative math pathways pass college-level math, compared with 19% assigned to standard developmental math.
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CAPR is led by the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, and MDRC.

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