Toward College and Career Readiness: How Different Models Produce Similar Short-Term Outcomes

In 2007, the Illinois General Assembly passed the College and Career Readiness Pilot Act that supported the initial implementation of college readiness programming by community colleges and their high school partners. This study uses mixed-methods research to examine program implementation and stude...

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Published in:The American behavioral scientist (Beverly Hills) 2014-07, Vol.58 (8), p.994-1017
Main Authors: Bragg, Debra D., Taylor, Jason L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Academic readiness
Careers
College Students
Colleges
Community colleges
Curriculum
Education policy
Engineering
English language
Government policy
High Schools
Higher education
Illinois
Implementation
Mathematics
Policy analysis
Program Implementation
Race
Science and Technology
Secondary schools
Students
Studies
U.S.A
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Summary:In 2007, the Illinois General Assembly passed the College and Career Readiness Pilot Act that supported the initial implementation of college readiness programming by community colleges and their high school partners. This study uses mixed-methods research to examine program implementation and student outcomes associated with two of seven college and career readiness (CCR) partnerships in Illinois. Our analysis of the local models is guided by Conley’s four dimensions of CCR, and the results shed light on how different programmatic approaches contribute to short-term student outcomes in mathematics and English. This study has implications for Illinois’ efforts to move CCR forward, including for the state’s new Race to the Top (RttT) grant that is attempting to scale up CCR programming associated with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.
ISSN:0002-7642
1552-3381
DOI:10.1177/0002764213515231