Alexander Mayer
Associated IES Content
Grant
National Education Research and Development Center for Improving Rural Postsecondary Education
This Education Research and Development Center will assess strategies for improving rates of postsecondary enrollment and success for students from rural communities across the United States. The Center will accomplish this mission through research conducted using nationally representative data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics, partnerships with state-level higher education agencies, and research projects spanning 10 states and 25 colleges and universities, with prac...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305C240065
FY2017
FY2017 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education (STEM) Peer Review Panel
report
Impact Study
Scaling academic planning in community college: A randomized controlled trial
Community college students often lack an academic plan to guide their choices of coursework to achieve their educational goals, in part because counseling departments typically lack the capacity to advise students at scale. This randomized controlled trial tests the impact of guaranteed access to one of two alternative counseling sessions (group workshops or one-on-one counseling), each of which was combined with targeted "nudging." Outcome measures included scheduling and attending the couns...
Nov 01, 2016
FY2016
FY2016 Single-Session Peer Review Panel
FY2015
Single-Session Panels
Grant
Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness
During the past 40 years, the United States has made major advances in expanding access to postsecondary education, but many students arrive at college without the requisite English and math skills to perform college-level work. Community colleges and other open-access institutions have traditionally responded by placing such students into sequential developmental (or remedial) education courses with outdated curricula and instructional practices. Unfortunately, research indicates that stude...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305C140007