Objective: In Spring 2020 when COVID-19 hit, community colleges moved almost all classes
online. This disruption impacts recent math reforms, including contextualization, raising …

Math courses serve as cornerstones to most, if not all, community college programs. Yet,
these courses continue to be gatekeepers. Contextualization represents a promising venue …

Under Florida's developmental education (DE) reform since 2014, recent public high school
graduates and active-duty military personnel became exempt from DE and traditional …

Background/Context: Accelerated instructional strategies for developmental education have
been promoted as a way to help underprepared students to progress more quickly through …

This chapter presents an analysis of articles on academic learning published by US
researchers between 2005 and early 2020 in major higher education journals. The goal of …

This study assessed a localized academic readiness model that measures academic skills
relevant to an occupational program and the institutional context. Enrollment in the …

Guided Pathways is a systemic reform movement focused on increasing community college
completion rates and student achievement (Bailey et al., 2015b). Within the California …

In recent years, contextualization has emerged as a buzzword in higher education, and, in
community college developmental education contexts in particular. However, it is important …

This chapter presents an analysis of articles on academic learning published by US
researchers between 2005 and early 2020 in major higher education journals. The goal of …

In recent years, contextualization has emerged as a buzzword in higher education, and, in
community college developmental education contexts in particular. However, it is important …