Dual Enrollment: Strategies, Outcomes, and Lessons for School-College Partnerships

Klappentext This volume focuses on the goals! practices! policies! and outcomes of programs that enroll high school students in college courses for college credit. Zusammenfassung This volume focuses on the goals! practices! policies! and outcomes of programs that enroll high school students in college courses for college credit.

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This volume focuses on the goals, practices, policies, and outcomes of programs that enroll high school students in college courses for college credit.

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1. Why Dual Enrollment? 1 Eric Hofmann This chapter outlines the contents of this volume and presents an overview of dual enrollment within the context of a national collegecompletion agenda. Section I. Various Perspectives on Dual Enrollment 2. Does Dual Enrollment Increase Students' Success in College? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Dual Enrollment in New York City 11 Drew Allen, Mina Dadgar Researchers review studies on dual enrollment and postsecondary achievement and highlight their recent analysis of New York City's College Now program. 3. "I don't know, I've never been to college!" Dual Enrollment as a College Readiness Strategy 21 Melinda Mechur Karp This chapter uses student interviews and a theoretical framework of anticipatory socialization and role rehearsal to understand the impact of dual enrollment on students who participate. 4. Teaching and Learning in the Dual Enrollment Classroom 29 Katherine L. Hughes, Linsey Edwards Researchers use qualitative data from California's Concurrent Courses Initiative to understand the impact of dual enrollment programs on pedagogical strategies. 5. The Impact of Dual Enrollment on the Institution 39 Katherine N. Kinnick The director of a dual enrollment honors program discusses the value of dual enrollment programs to universities while highlighting programmatic concerns and challenges. 6. Data-Informed Practices in an Urban Dual Enrollment Program 49 Jeanette Kim This chapter describes how data inform program priorities and benchmarks for success in a systemwide dual enrollment program in New York City. 7. Dual Enrollment in the Broader Context of College-Level High School Programs 59 Kristin Klopfenstein, Kit Lively This chapter provides an overview of some differences between dual enrollment and Advanced Placement programs, including their origins, the curriculum, and impact on postsecondary achievement. Section II. Dual Enrollment Models That Strengthen School--College Partnerships 8. Using College Placement Exams as Early Signals of College Readiness: An Examination of California's Early Assessment Program and New York's At Home in College Program 71 Andrea Venezia, Daniel Voloch This chapter explores the use of college placement exams and specially designed courses in order to improve alignment between secondary and postsecondary institutions. 9. Early Colleges: A New Model of Schooling Focusing on College Readiness 81 Julie A. Edmunds This chapter presents quantitative and qualitative data from an experimental study of early college high schools in North Carolina, as well as an overview of national studies of early colleges. 10. Dual Enrollment Lessons and the Development of The New Community College at CUNY 91 Tracy Meade The former project director discusses the influence of dual enrollment programs on the planning of a new community college. 11. Dual Enrollment as a Liminal Space 101 Eric Hofmann, Daniel Voloch The authors propose a new metaphor for thinking about dual enrollment programs as a strategy to support successful college transition. INDEX 109