Pre-College Education Research Reports

Research and policy perspectives on enrollment and outcomes for students participating in pre-college (developmental or remedial) programs and Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST).

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Pre-College Education

• Precollege Education and First Year Outcomes, April 2018
• Role of Pre-College (Developmental and Remedial) Education 2009-10 Public High School Graduates Who Enroll in Washington (Research Report 12-02, December 2012)
  This report describes pre-college enrollments for students attending community and technical colleges within the first year after graduating high school and total state-supported pre-college enrollments for all students in 2010-11.
• Role of Pre-College (Developmental and Remedial) Education 2008-09 Public High School Graduates Who Enroll in Washington Community and Technical Colleges in 2009-10 (Research Report 11-03, revised April 2012)
  This report describes pre-college enrollments for students attending community and technical colleges within the first year after graduating high school and total state-supported pre-college enrollments for all students in 2009-10.

Basic Skills and I-BEST

• Guiding students from basic education through college and beyond (Research Report 20-1, March 2020) Basic education adult students who transition to college-level have been part of our first-time college cohort in our earlier reports; however, their participation and results have not been disaggregated and reported separately. In this report we identify 10,915 basic education students who are included in an overall population of 105,720 first-time in college students who started between 2010 and 2013. This time period provides an early-baseline for our reform initiative.
• High School 21+ Outcomes This report examines early outcomes for Washington’s High School 21+ program, comparing demographics, postsecondary completion, and employment placement rates with outcomes data of those passing the GED®. 
• 2012 I-BEST Review: Lessons Being Learned from Traditional Programs and New Innovations - Next Steps and Issues for Scaling Up (Research Report 12-01, June 2012)
  This paper examines both the early results of I-BEST for Developmental Education (I-BEST for Dev Ed) programs in nine colleges and the results of a longer-term look at the traditional I-BEST Professional-Technical model.