Developmental Education: Readings on Its Past, Present, and Future offers twenty-two selections on historical efforts to serve underprepared students, on the state of developmental education today, and on innovative practices and possible directions for the future.

Compiled by Hunter R. Boylan, Director of the National Center for Developmental Education (NCDE) and a professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University, and Barbara S. Bonham, a professor in the Department of Leadership and Educational Studies at Appalachian State University, each chapter also includes introductions and questions for discussion and reflection.

Hunter R. Boylan is the Director of the National Center for Developmental Education and a Professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Developmental Education, the International Journal of Education and Development, and the Journal of Teaching and Learning and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Carnegie Foundation Statway Project, the National Center for Postsecondary Research, and the National Association for Developmental Education (NADE). He is the former Chair of the Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations, a Past President of NADE, a previous Technical Assistant for the Gates Foundation Developmental Education Initiative, and the original Director of the nation's first Doctoral Program in Developmental Education at Grambling State University. He has received the NADE award for "Outstanding Leadership" and the association's "Outstanding Research" Award is named after him as are the research scholarships of the Association for the Tutoring Profession and the National College Learning Center Association. He is the author or co-author of seven books and over 100 research articles, book chapters, and monographs.

Barbara S. Bonham is a professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University. She also serves as Senior Researcher for the National Center for Developmental Education and a faculty member for the Kellogg Institute. She had served as Coordinator of the Higher Education Graduate Program for 10 years. Her teaching background includes 12 years in the field of developmental education at Bloomsburg University as a math instructor, lab coordinator, tutorial supervisor, and assistant to the Director in a Student Services Program (TRIO). She has over 40 years of teaching experience overall. She has served as consultant to numerous two-year and four-year colleges in the area of developmental education, particularly mathematics, as well as a program reviewer and evaluator for Title III, Title V, FIPSE, Achieving the Dream projects and technical assistant for the Developmental Education Initiative. Her extensive list of state, national, and international keynote addresses, workshops, technical reports, and presentations reflect her broad areas of research and expertise. These include college teaching and learning, adult development, instructional design, culturally responsive learning environments, program planning, promising practices in developmental education, developmental mathematics, non-western approaches to adult learning, and educational systems in other countries. Her recent scholarly leave in New Zealand provided an opportunity to conduct an in-depth study of the models used for developmental education known as bridging programs and support services.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Historical Programs and Theories in Developmental Education

Chapter 1 Introduction

Hunter R. Boylan and William G. White, Jr.

Educating All the Nation’s People: The Historical Roots of Developmental Education

Ellen Brier

Bridging the Academic Preparation Gap: An Historical View

William G. White, Nara Martirosyan, and Reubenson Wanjohi

Preparatory Programs in Nineteenth Century Midwest Land Grant Colleges (Part 1)

David R. Arendale

History of Learning Assistance in U.S. Postsecondary Education

Questions for Further Reflection

Chapter 2: Developmental Education and the Present

Chapter 2 Introduction

Jamie P. Merisotis and Ronald A. Phipps

Remedial Education in Colleges and Universities: What’s Really Going On?

Robert A. Frost, Stephen L. Strom, JoAnna Downey, Deanna D. Schultz, and Teresa A. Holland

Enhancing Student Learning with Academic and Student Affairs Collaboration

Dolores Perin

Remediation Beyond Developmental Education: The Use of Learning Assistance Centers to Increase Academic Preparedness in Community Colleges

Susan Scrivener and Erin Coghlan

Opening Doors to Student Success: A Synthesis of Findings from an Evaluation at Six Community Colleges

Thomas Bailey, Dong Wook Jeong, and Sung-Woo Cho

Referral, Enrollment, and Completion in Developmental Education Sequences in Community Colleges

Paul Attewell, David Lavin, Thurston Domina, and Tania Levey

New Evidence on College Remediation

Elizabeth Zachry Rutschow and Emily Schneider

Unlocking the Gate: What We Know about Improving Developmental Education

Questions for Further Reflection

Chapter 3: Innovative Practices in Developmental Education

Chapter 3 Introduction

Nikki Edgecombe

Accelerating the Academic Achievement of Students Referred to Developmental Education

Dolores Perin

Facilitating Student Learning through Contextualization: A Review of Evidence

Davis Jenkins, Matthew Zeidenberg, and Gregory Kienzl

Building Bridges to Postsecondary Training for Low-Skill Adults: Outcomes of Washington State’s I-BEST Program

Peter Adams, Sarah Gearhart, Robert Miller, and Anne Roberts

The Accelerated Learning Program: Throwing Open the Gates

Elisabeth A. Barnett, Rachel Hare Bork, Alexander K. Mayer, Joshua Pretlow, Heather D. Wathington, and Madeline Joy Weiss

Bridging the Gap: An Impacts Study of Eight Developmental Summer Bridge Programs in Texas

Hunter R. Boylan

Targeted Intervention for Developmental Education Students (T. I.D.E.S.)

Caroline Q. Sheldon and Nathan R. Durdella

Success Rates for Students Taking Compressed and Regular-Length Developmental Courses in the Community College

Barbara S. Bonham and Hunter R. Boylan

Developmental Mathematics: Challenges, Promising Practices, and Recent Initiatives

Douglas R. Holschuh and David C. Caverly

Techtalk: Cloud Computing and Developmental Education

Melissa L. Burgess and David C. Caverly

Techtalk: Second Life and Developmental Education

David C. Caverly, Anne R. Ward, and Michael J. Caverly

Techtalk: Mobile Learning and Access

Questions for Further Reflection

Organizations and Resources

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