July 2010
This resource contains the article "Exponential Attrition and the Promise of Acceleration in Developmental English and Math," which makes the case that high attrition rates are structurally guaranteed in long developmental sequences and that open-access accelerated courses are a promising way to increase completion rates in college-level English and Math. Also included is an extended analysis of data from Chabot's curriculum, "Student Success and Persistence in Accelerated Developmental English," and "Window into an Accelerated Classroom," which presents the major quizzes and papers assigned in a Spring 2010 section of accelerated developmental English taught by Katie Hern at Chabot College.