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What is Developmental Education?

What is Developmental Education?. by Dr. Patrick Wall July 2007. MISSION of the California Community Colleges. General Education (“lower division level”) Vocational Education Basic Skills Workforce Development Community Ed / Lifelong Learning. Three Closely Related Terms.

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What is Developmental Education?

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  1. What isDevelopmental Education? by Dr. Patrick Wall July 2007

  2. MISSION of the California Community Colleges • General Education (“lower division level”) • Vocational Education • Basic Skills • Workforce Development • Community Ed / Lifelong Learning

  3. Three Closely Related Terms • Developmental Education • Basic Skills • Remedial Education

  4. “Developmental Education” “Developmental Education is courses or services provided for the purpose of helping underprepared college students attain their academic goals.” --Dr. Hunter R. Boylan in What Works: Research-Based Best Practices in Developmental Education (2002)

  5. Developmental education includes: • coursework • all forms of learning assistance, such as tutoring, mentoring, and supplemental instruction • personal, academic, and career counseling • academic advisement --National Association for Developmental Education

  6. “Remedial” Based on a medical model: • Diagnosis, Prescription, Remedy • Implies “fixing” something Re-teaching material Why inappropriate term?

  7. A Word from the State ChancellorDR. DIANE WOODRUFF ACCCA Reports, Summer 2007 Association of California Community College Administrators

  8. “We have only just begun to address the basic skills issues. It will take many years of sustained funding and effort to make a difference in this area. The reason I am so excited about supporting the basic skills initiative is that I think for the first time ever we might be able to make a real transformational shift in the way we deliver education to our most vulnerable, at-risk students.” --July 2007 interview

  9. Basic Skills Initiative We are proud and excited to introduce a new statewide program, the Basic Skills Initiative (BSI). --State Academic Senate The Basic Skills Initiative (BSI) is a partnership of the Academic Senate, Chief Instructional Officers, Chief Student Services Officers, and the System Office.

  10. “Poppy Copy” Basic Skills as a Foundation for Student Success in California Community Colleges This is the Basic Skills Initiative handbook, prepared by a team of researchers, faculty, and administrators from the CCC Center for Student Success and the Research and Planning (RP) Group. It and other Basic Skills Initiative resources are available at www.cccbsi.org.

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