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Affirmation and Discovery: Best Practices in Developmental Education

Affirmation and Discovery: Best Practices in Developmental Education. Presented by Hunter R. Boylan, Ph.D. Professor and Director, NCDE. Affirmation. What practices are validated in the research and continue to appear in current studies?. Discovery. What promising practices are

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Affirmation and Discovery: Best Practices in Developmental Education

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  1. Affirmation and Discovery:Best Practices in Developmental Education Presented by Hunter R. Boylan, Ph.D. Professor and Director, NCDE

  2. Affirmation • What practices are validated in the research and continue to appear in current studies?

  3. Discovery • What promising practices are beginning to emerge from current research?

  4. Research-Based Best Practices • Leadership support for developmental education • Coordination and communication in the developmental education effort • Clearly stated and widely understood mission for developmental education

  5. Research-Based Best Practices • Mandatory assessment, advisement, and placement • Professional development • Adjunct faculty training

  6. Research-Based Best Practices • Formative evaluation • Learning-centered philosophy • Integration of classrooms and laboratories

  7. Research-Based Best Practices • Insuring consistency of exit and entry standards (a “seamless transition) • Monitoring and early intervention • Provision of comprehensive support services

  8. Activity One Please rate the extent to which these best practices are present at your institution.

  9. Promising Practices • Using language carefully • Collaborating between adult and developmental education • Encouraging students to take content courses immediately following developmental education

  10. Promising Practices • Secondary/postsecondary collaboration • Campus wide advisory board • Smaller class sizes for developmental courses

  11. Promising Practices • Careful hiring of developmental educators • Close proximity of courses and services • “Mixed” on-line developmental courses

  12. Activity Two Discuss which of these promising practices might contribute most to improving developmental education: a. in general, and b. at your campus.

  13. Activity Three Write down ONE thing you will do to improve developmental education when you return to campus.

  14. Insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting change to result.Georges Santayana

  15. Thank you!

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