It’s becoming more and more common for high schools to encourage their students to take dual enrollment and dual credit courses not only to prepare them for college course loads but to help them earn early college credits, according to a University press release.
“In Kentucky, there has been a recent push to think about how to support college and career preparation, not unlike the rest of the country,” said Mary Piontek, senior research associate at CEEP and co-principal investigator on the study, in the release.
In 2009, the Kentucky state legislature passed legislation aimed at increasing the number of students prepared for college and post-graduate employment.
The study is currently underway at Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia in CNA Corporation. It is designed to show how both dual enrollment and dual credit programs have been designed and implemented in six non-urban school districts, according to the ?release.
The REL Appalachia supports the education system with practice-based research, joining with educational organizations such as schools and state education departments.
Made up of 10 laboratories, the REL Appalachia is federally funded through the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.
“The study will gather information about the nature of the partnerships between districts and post-secondary institutions, the types of courses, the types of students enrolled, who teaches the courses, student recruitment strategies and funding sources, in addition to other characteristics about the dual enrollment and dual credit programs,” Piontek said in the release.
Data collection will include phone interviews with stakeholder groups, demographic information about participating institutions and documents and materials related to the design and implementation of dual enrollment and dual credit programs, according to the release.
Data collection will begin this fall, and the report will be released following review by the Institute of Education Sciences.
Kathrine Schulze
