This summer I am attending the National Center for Developmental Education Kellogg Institute at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC for the month of July.
Week 1: Basic Skills Assessment and Placement
Monday began with a welcome by Dr Hunter Boylan, which included a succinct history of Dev Ed in higher education. He also framed the current conversation(s) regarding research by TCCU and others critical of Dev Ed--the movement to "end" remediation.
Tuesday-Friday Dr Ed Morante explicated psychometrics, placement vs admission testing, norm-referenced vs criterion-referenced tests, standard error of measurement.
I also met with my advisor, Dr Boylan, to discuss my project. Keeping in mind my "global learner" tendencies, it was important to draw a box around what would and would not be in this project. Of course I'm still doing the 'big' project (HS outreach, mentoring, pre-remediation of high school students so more of them are college-ready when they graduate, working with HS and MS faculty to improve communication and support for students/share professional development resources/data, increase students' availing themselves of summer programs), but my Kellogg project will focus on supporting the PARENTS of first generation college students (FGCS) --giving them some resources for how to be a parent of a college student.
I started a preliminary list of references.
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