Postsecondary

This brief examines the implementation of an enhanced student coaching pilot for the Los Angeles College Promise in LACCD, finding strong implementation fidelity but limited student take-up, which may constrain impacts on persistence and completion.

This study demonstrates that personalized, data-informed educational technologies can significantly improve early literacy development when thoughtfully aligned with cognitive and instructional principles.

This brief analyzes the costs of distance education in LACCD, finding that asynchronous courses require the most faculty time and that faculty labor dominates instructional costs across modalities.

This brief examines how online and hybrid course modalities affect student outcomes in LACCD, finding small but persistent negative impacts on GPA and persistence that have diminished since the pandemic and vary by modality and course mix.

This report examines the steps rural students have taken to enter the military following graduation by presenting results from a senior exit survey administered by rural districts partnering with NCRERN in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years. 

This brief examines how online course participation affects student outcomes in LACCD, finding slight GPA reductions, no effect on credits earned, and moderate negative impacts on persistence that vary by modality, dosage, and course subject.

This brief examines faculty perceptions and student outcomes related to online education in LACCD, finding that course modality influences academic success in ways that vary across subjects despite expanded investments in online learning.

This brief examines the Los Angeles College Promise in LACCD, finding that participating students show stronger enrollment intensity, persistence, and completion outcomes than other first-time students, with ongoing efforts to further improve persistence.