Research

To learn more about work being done on academic preparation in the CSU and in higher education institutions across the country explore the research below.

Briefs and Research Reports

• Should Students Assessed as Needing Remedial Mathematics Take College-Level Quantitative Courses Instead? A Randomized Controlled Trial 
  
• Evaluating Remediation Reforms at the California State University
  
• University System of Georgia Co-requisite Outcomes Data
  
• Instituting Developmental (Remedial) Education Reform: Challenges and Results in New Jersey, Colorado, and New York.”
• The Causal Effects of the Tennessee Developmental Course Redesign Initiative on Early Student Academic Success at Austin Peay University
  
• Core Principles for Transforming Remediation within a Comprehensive Student Success Strategy
  
• Developmental Education Challenges and Strategies for Reform
  
• Improving Students' College  Math Readiness: A Review of the Evidence on Postsecondary Interventions and Reforms
  
• Improving the Targeting of Treatment: Evidence From College Remediation
  
• Is Corequisite Remediation Cost-Effective? Early Findings from Tennessee
  
• ​Multiple Measures Assessment Project (​MMAP)​
  
• Not Just Faster: Equity & Learning Centred Developmental Education Strategies
  
• Promising Reforms in Developmental Education
  
• Self-Regulation Support Offered by Developmental Educators
• Strategies for Postsecondary Students in Developmental Education – A Practice Guide for College and University Administrators, Advisors, and Faculty
• Tests and Cut Scores Used for Student Placement in Postsecondary Education
• ​​​Why Do Women Opt Out? Sense of Belonging and Women's Representation in Mathematics​​
  
• ​ The Impact of Taking a College Pre-Calculus Course on Students' College Calculus Performance

Websites

• ​​Charles A Dana Center Math Pathways
  
• CSU Math Success