- Over 60% of Colorado Community College System students place into developmental math, while over 25% place into developmental English and 13% into developmental reading. Completion rates for students who start in developmental courses are significantly lower than for students who do not need remediation. - The Developmental Education Taskforce has been charged with reviewing developmental education practices and making recommendations to improve student success, such as through assessment, online learning, modular course options, and mainstreaming developmental content. - The taskforce is examining best practices and innovations like open-entry math labs, mainstreaming developmental content into gateway courses, accelerated and compressed courses, and contextualizing developmental material, in order to recommend implementation strategies across the college system.

1. B I T S Y C O H N
C O E T C D E V E L O P M E N T A L E D U C A T I O N C O O R D I N A T O R
DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION TASKFORCE
COLORADO COMMUNITY
COLLEGE SYSTEM

2. CCCS STUDENTS
61.6
25.3
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0
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20
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70
Students who
place into
Dev MAT
Students who
place into
Dev ENG
Students who
place into
Dev REA
Percent of total remedial enrollment
Percent of total
remedial enrollment

3. THE PROBLEM
• Students stop out or drop out of the developmental
sequence before they complete the gateway
• Students who begin at the developmental level in
one or more subjects complete college at
significantly lower rates
• Time, not student learning, is the greatest barrier to
student success

4. COLORADO 3 YEAR GRADUATION
FOR DE STUDENTS
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Fall 07 Cohort in Remedial Graduation Rate

5. THE VISION
The DETF has been charged with reviewing
developmental education practices and with making
recommendations about what steps the system
will take to become the premier purveyor of
developmental education in more streamlined and
efficient ways, resulting in greater student success.

6. The group, comprised of faculty and administrators
from across Colorado, will make recommendations
about:
Assessment, contextualization, online learning,
student support services, modular options,
accelerated/compressed/mainstreaming of
developmental education, and options for
students.
THE GROUP

7. The DETF is working to identify the best
practices in each area and then to make
recommendations about implementation
at the CCCS.
The DETF will holistically examine the role
that developmental education plays in
overall student success.
THE WORK

8. THE CHARGE
• Review and clarify the purpose of developmental
education and analyze implications for policy and
practice resulting from a clarified purpose.
• Review current system policies and practices
related to developmental education and propose
revisions that will promote greater student success in
alignment with sound academic principles and
practice

9. • Investigate and analyze measures of success, data
reports and studies on success of developmental
education students.
• Examine structures for developmental
education, highlighting innovative and successful
strategies, improving the student experience and
identifying barriers to success.
THE CHARGE

10. • On the basis of a comprehensive
review, recommend broad strategies and specific
initiatives related to developmental education that
should be pursued by Colorado's Community
College System Colleges, leading to enhanced
outcomes for student learning and success.
THE CHARGE

11. WHERE ARE WE SO FAR?
TAA and CCA grant
Research - Presentations
Discussion points
Subcommittee work

12. WHAT ARE THE INNOVATIONS?
• Open entry/exit Math Labs
• Mainstreaming
• Accelerated and Compressed Courses
• Contextualization

13. INNOVATIONS
• Online or Hybrid OTL
• Diagnostic Assessments for Modular Math
• Modular Math

14. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?

15. CREATIVE COMMONS
ATTRIBUTION
This work by Colorado Community College System COETC Grant is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Unported License. The material was created with funds from the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career
Training (TAACCCT) Grant awarded to the Colorado Online Energy Training Consortium (COETC).Based on a work at
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