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Direct linkFederick Ngo; Dan Cullinan – MDRC, 2022
While most community colleges admit all students who apply for admission, the vast majority have required students to demonstrate specified levels of literacy and numeracy before they can take college-level courses. Typically, students have been assessed using a single placement test, such as the College Board's ACCUPLACER. Colleges--or sometimes…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Placement, School Readiness, Placement Tests
Peer reviewedDavis, Eric J.; Breno, Kerry L.; Ojennus, Deanna Dahlke; Russell, Trisha A.; Stevens, Karen E.; Wheeler, Kraig – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the mass shutdown of universities across the United States in the spring of 2020. As the pandemic progressed, regional regulations resulted in a broad range of teaching modalities for the 2020-2021 academic year. While some regions remained tightly locked down (resulting in online-only instruction), others allowed…
Descriptors: Laboratory Experiments, Science Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics
Download full textWashington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Olympia. – 2000
This progress report analyzes the outcomes of the Running Start Program, part of Washington's 1990 "Learning by Choice Law," which was designed to expand educational options for high school students. The program qualified high school juniors and seniors to take college-level classes at the state's community and technical colleges and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annual Reports, College Programs, College School Cooperation
Crossland, Ron – 1996
The Running Start program was created by the Washington State Legislature in 1990 to allow qualified 11th and 12th grade high school students to take college-level courses at community and technical colleges. In the 1994-95 academic year, 7,418 high school students were enrolled in college classes through the program, representing about 3% of the…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Advanced Placement, College Bound Students, College Credits
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Olympia. – 1995
The Running Start program was created by the Washington State Legislature in 1990 to allow qualified 11th and 12th grade high school students to take college-level courses at community and technical colleges. In fall 1994, 5,334 high school students were enrolled in college classes through the program, representing about 4% of the total high…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Advanced Placement, College Bound Students, College Credits
Crossland, Ron – 1998
The Running Start program was created by the 1990 Washington State Legislature to expand educational options for public school students. Running Start allows eleventh and twelfth grade high school students to take college-level courses, tuition-free, at the 32 community and technical colleges in Washington. This annual progress report for 1996-97…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annual Reports, College Credits, College Programs
