Burhan Ogut

Current knowledge about the use of accessibility features (AFs)-consisting of accommodations available only to students with disabilities (SWD) and universal design (UD) elements available to all students-is largely limited to information on students' interaction with mostly paper-and-pencil tests. Little is known about whether SWDs use the AFs available to them; what features or combination of features they use; the extent of use if they do use the features; and whether certain item, studen...

In this study, the research team will examine differences in course taking and degree persistence between the online and on-campus programs at Arizona State University (ASU), a large Hispanic-serving institution (HSI). The research team will work with the Learning @ Scale (L@S) platform team at ASU, one of the five platform teams within the SEERNet Network, to carry out this work. The research team aims to analyze course-taking patterns throughout students' enrollment to identify common acad...

In this study, the researchers aimed to provide a current and comprehensive description of the relationship between curricular intensity (the number of academic courses students complete and the level or difficulty of those courses) and postsecondary outcomes. The team used recent data from a nationally representative study and a rigorous methodology that adjusts for self-selection issues. They focused on students with disadvantaged backgrounds, such as racial/ethnic minorities (Black, Hispa...