Articles and Chapters

Since 1995, the Pullias Center has engaged in action-oriented projects and research to improve college access and student success, promote equity and diversity, and enhance the performance of postsecondary institutions. Our researchers publish many journal articles and chapters informed by this higher education research. Below is a partial and evolving directory of some of these published items. You can also visit other pages to view reports, guides, and briefs as well as numerous books authored by our researchers.

2021

Melguizo, T., Flores, S.M., Velasquez, D., & Carrol, T. (Forthcoming/2021). Lost in the transition: The cost of college-readiness standards misalignment in English for Previously Classified English Learners, The Journal of Higher Education.

Ngo, F., Velasquez, D., & Melguizo, T. (online first/2021). Faculty perspectives on using high school data in an era of placement testing reform, Community College Journal.

2020

Ngo, F., & Melguizo, T. (2020). The Equity Cost of Inter-Sector Math Misalignment: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Community College Student Outcomes. Pullias Center for Higher Education. https://pulliasarchive.jihekona.com/download/the-equity-cost-of-inter-sector-math-misalignment-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-community-college-student-outcomes/

Ngo, F., & Melguizo, T. (2020). The equity cost of inter-sector math misalignment: Racial and gender disparities in community college outcomes. The Journal of Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2020.1811570

Park, E.S., Ngo, F., & Melguizo, T. (2020). The role of misaligned math in the community college STEM pathway. Research in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-020-09602-y

Kezar, A., & Fries-Britt, Sharon (2020). How Do We Lead on Equity? Hint: Avoid a Routine Approach and Focus on Building Trust. Association of American Colleges & Universities, https://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/2020/fall/kezar

Bernstein-Serra, S., & Kezar, A. (2020). Scaling Culture Change through Institutional Logics: A Look at the American Association of Universities (AAU) STEM Initiative. 356-373. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161956X.2020.1800173

2019

Kezar, A., Hypolite, L., & Kitchen, J. A. (2019). Career self-efficacy: A mixed-methods study of an underexplored research area for first-generation, low-Income, and underrepresented college students in a comprehensive college transition program. American Behavioral Scientist, 64(3), 298-324. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219869409

Lanford, M., & Maruco, T. (2019). Six conditions for successful career academies. Phi Delta Kappan, 100(5), 50-52. https://www.kappanonline.org/successful-career-academies-career-preparation-lanford-maruco/

Hallett, R. E., Reason, R. D., Toccoli, J., Kitchen, J. A., & Perez, R. J. (2019). The process of academic validation within a comprehensive college transition program. American Behavioral Scientist, 64(3), 253–275. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219869419

Kezar, A., & Holcombe, W. (2019). Leveraging multiple theories of change to promote reform: An examination of the AAU STEM initiative. Education Policy, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904819843594

Kezar, A., Miller, E., Bernstein-Serra, S., & Holcombe, E. (2019). The promise of a “network of networks” strategy to scale change: Lessons from the AAU STEM initiative. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 51(2), 47-54. https://doi/pdf/10.1177/0895904819843594

Liera, R. (2019). Moving beyond a culture of niceness in faculty hiring to advance racial equity. American Educational Research Journal, 1–41. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3102/0002831219888624

Scott, D., & Kezar, A. (2019). Intergroup solidarity and collaboration in higher education organizing and bargaining in the United States. Academic Labor: Research and Artistry. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1048&context=alra

Villarreal, C.D., Liera, R., & Malcom-Piqueux, L. (2019). The role of niceness in silencing racially minoritized faculty. The price of nice: How good intentions maintain educational inequity. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctvpwhdfv

Wheaton, M. M., & Kezar, A. (2019). Interlocking systems of oppression: Women navigating higher education leadership. Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Higher Education Leadership, 61-83. https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/interlocking-systems-of-oppression/217961

Zhang, R. & Dizon, J.P.M. (2019). Our work is political: Insights from Asian American student affairs educators. No Ways Tired: The Journey for Professionals of Color in Student Affairs, 2. https://www.infoagepub.com/products/No-Ways-Tired-By-and-By-Mid-Level-Professionals

Culver, K.C., Braxton, J., & Pascarella, E. (2019). Does teaching rigorously really enhance undergraduates’ intellectual development? The relationship of academic rigor with critical thinking skills and lifelong learning motivations. Higher Education, 78, 611-627. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-019-00361-z

Scott, D., Dizon, J., & Kezar, A. (2019). The state of the faculty report. Pullias Center for Higher Education. https://pulliasarchive.jihekona.com/download/state-of-the-faculty/

Youngerman, E. W., & Culver, K. C. (2019). Problem-based learning: Real-world applications to foster (inter) disciplinary learning and integration. Applied Learning in Higher Education: Curricular and Co-Curricular Experiences that Improve Student Learning, 188, 23-32. https://doi.org/10.1002/he.20342

Kezar, A., Hypolite, L., & Kitchen, J. A. (2019). Career self-efficacy: A mixed-methods study of an underexplored research area for first-generation, low-Income, and underrepresented college students in a comprehensive college transition program. American Behavioral Scientist, 64(3), 298–324. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219869409

Kezar, A., & Kitchen, J. A. (2019). Supporting first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students’ transitions to college through comprehensive and integrated programs. American Behavioral Scientist, 64(3), 223–229. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219869397

Huerta, A. H., & Venegas, K. M. (2019). Problems and strategies for counselors in brokering postsecondary educational opportunities for marginalized student populations. Fundamentals of College Admission Counseling: A Textbook for Graduate Students and Practicing Counselors. https://www.nacacnet.org/news–publications/publications/fundamentals-of-college-admission-counseling-fifth-edition/

Huerta, A., & Fishman, S. M. (2019). Marginalizing what matters: Revisiting Latino male students in the education pipeline. Marginality in the Urban Center: The Costs and Challenges of Continued Whiteness in the Americas and Beyond, 133-157. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96466-9

Hallett, R. E., Kezar, A., Perez, R. J., & Kitchen, J. A. (2019). A typology of college transition and support programs: Situating a 2-year comprehensive college transition program within college access. American Behavioral Scientist, 64(3), 230–252. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219869410

Hallett, R. E., Reason, R. D., Toccoli, J., Kitchen, J. A., & Perez, R. J. (2019). The process of academic validation within a comprehensive college transition program. American Behavioral Scientist, 64(3), 253–275. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219869419

Cole, D., Newman, C. B., & Hypolite, L. I. (2019). Sense of belonging and mattering among two cohorts of first-year students participating in a comprehensive college transition program. American Behavioral Scientist, 64(3), 276–297. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219869417

Kezar, A., & Kitchen, J. A. (2019). Supporting first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students’ transitions to college through comprehensive and integrated programs. American Behavioral Scientist, 64(3), 223–229. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219869397

Miller, C. W., Zwickl, B. M., Posselt, J. R., Silvestrini, R. T., & Hodapp, T. (2019). Typical physics Ph.D. admissions criteria limit access to underrepresented groups but fail to predict doctoral completion. Science Advances, 5(1). https:/doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat7550

2018

Melguizo, T., & Ngo, F. (2018). Why do I have to repeat algebra in college? The equity cost of college readiness standards misalignment. Pullias Center for Higher Education. https://pulliasarchive.jihekona.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Equity-Costs-Misaligned-Math.pdf

Ngo, F., Chi, W. E., & Park, E. S.Y. (2018). Mathematics course placement using holistic measures: Possibilities for community college students. Teachers College Record, 120(2). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1162841

DePaola, T., & Kezar, A. (2018). The changing face of faculty at research universities. Hidden and Visible: The Role and Impact of Contingent Faculty in Higher Education, 2017(176), 83-96. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ir.20246

Kezar, A. (2018). Asset-based or burden-based views of senior and retired faculty: How values translate into culture and shape practice and policies. Reinventing Academic Retirement, 2018(182), 57-67. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/he.20280

Kezar, A. (2018). A new vision for the professoriate. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 50(3-4), 84-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/00091383.2018.1509616

Kezar, A., & DePaola, T. (2018). Neoliberalism and faculty roles: The politics of academic work. Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education, 449–467. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786435026

Kezar, A., & DePaola, T. (2018). Understanding the need for unions: Contingent faculty working conditions and the relationship to student learning. Professors in the Gig Economy: Unionizing Adjunct Faculty in America. https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/professors-gig-economy

Liera, R., & Dowd, A. C. (2018). Faculty learning at boundaries to broker racial equity. The Journal of Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2018.1512805

Kezar, A. J., & Holcombe, E. M. (2018). Challenges of implementing integrated programs for underrepresented students in STEM: A study of the CSU STEM collaboratives. Educational Policy. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0895904818802091

Huerta, A. H. (2018). Educational persistence in the face of violence: Narratives of resilient Latino male youth. Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 11(2), 94-113. https://doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2018.110206

Cole, D., Kitchen, J. A., & Kezar, A. (2018). Examining a comprehensive college transition program: An account of iterative mixed methods longitudinal survey design. Research in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-018-9515-1

Corwin, Z., & Maruco, T. J. (2018). Navigating the tension between scale and school context in digital college guidance. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 16(3), 303-310. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-03-2018-0019

Estrada, J. N., Huerta, A. H., Hernandez, E., Hernandez, R. A., & Kim, S. W. (2018). Socio‐ecological risk and protective factors for youth gang involvement. The Wiley Handbook on Violence in Education, 185-202. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118966709.ch9

Huerta, A. H., McDonough, P. M., & Allen, W. R. (2018). You can go to college: Employing a developmental perspective to examine how young men of color construct a college-going identity. The Urban Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-018-0466-9

Huerta, A., & Rios-Aguilar, C. (2018). Treat a cop like they are god: Exploring the relevance and utility of funds of gang knowledge among Latino male students. Urban Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085918794766

Kezar, A., & Holcombe, E. (2018). Integrated and comprehensive student support programs aimed at historically underserved students: Creating a unified community of support. International Journal of Chinese Education, 7(1), 65-84. https://doi.org/10.1163/22125868-12340090

Kezar, A., & Holcombe, E. (2018). How organizational silos and bridges shape student success: The CSU STEM collaboratives project. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 50(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/00091383.2018.1483180

Kitchen, J., Sadler, P., & Sonnert, G. (2018). The impact of summer bridge programs on college students’ STEM career aspirations. Journal of College Student Development, 59(6), 698-715. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710765/pdf

Kolluri, S. (2018). Advanced placement: The dual challenge of equal access and effectiveness. Review of Educational Research. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654318787268

Kolluri, S. (2018). Student perspectives on the common core: The challenge of college readiness at urban high schools. Urban Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085918772630

Kolluri, S. & Tierney, W. (2018). College for all in capitalist America: The post-secondary emphasis in the neoliberal age. Tertiary Education and Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/13583883.2018.1440417

Martinez, Jr. E., & Huerta, A. H. (2018). Deferred enrollment: Chicano/Latino males, social mobility and military enlistment. Education and Urban Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013124518785021

Melguizo, T., & Witham, K. (2018). Funding community colleges for equity, efficiency, and student success. The Century Foundation. https://tcf.org/content/report/funding-community-colleges-equity-efficiency-student-success-examination-evidence-california/

Pathania, G.J., & Tierney, W.G. (2018). An ethnography of caste and class at an Indian university: Creating capital. Tertiary Education and Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/13583883.2018.1439998

Tichavakunda, A. A., & Tierney, W.G. (2018). The ‘wrong’ side of the divide: Highlighting race for equity’s sake. Journal of Negro Education, 87(2), 110-124. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7709/jnegroeducation.87.2.0110

Gehrke, S., & Kezar, A. (2018). Perceived outcomes associated with engagement in and design of faculty communities of practice focused on STEM reform. Research in Higher Education, 60(6), 844-869. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-018-9534-y

Kezar, A. (2018). Using philosophy to develop a thoughtful approach to going public or not. Taking It to the Streets: The Role of Scholarship in Advocacy and Advocacy in Scholarship. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/58092

Lanford, M., & Maruco, T. (2018). When job training is not enough: The cultivation of social capital in career academies. American Educational Research Journal, 55(3), 617-648. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831217746107

Lanford, M., Tierney, W. G., & Lincoln, Y. (2018). The art of life history: Novel approaches, future directions. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800418817834

Kezar, A., Fries-Britt, S., Kurban, E., McGuire, D., & Wheaton, M.M. (2018). Speaking truth and acting with integrity: Confronting challenges of campus racial climate. American Council on Education. https://pulliasarchive.jihekona.com/download/speaking-truth-and-acting-with-integrity-confronting-challenges-of-campus-racial-climate/

Oleksiyenko, A., & Tierney, W. G. (2018). Higher education and human vulnerability: Global failures of corporate design. Tertiary Education and Management, 24(3), 187-192. https://doi.org/10.1080/13583883.2018.1439094

Tierney, W. G., & Lanford, M. (2018). Institutional culture in higher education. Encyclopedia of international higher education systems and institutions. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_544-1

Tierney, W. G., & Lanford, M. (2018). Research in higher education: Cultural perspectives. Encyclopedia of international higher education systems and institutions. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_165-1

Tierney, W.G. (2018). A road less traveled: The responsibilities of the intellectual. Taking It to the Streets: The Role of Scholarship in Advocacy and Advocacy in Scholarship. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/58092

Tierney, W. G., & Rall, R. M. (2018). Lessons not yet learned: Culture, governance, and the Jerry Sandusky case. Journal of Higher Education Management, 33(2), 12-27. http://www.aaua.org/journals/pdfs/JHEM_2018_33-2_Online.pdf

Gehrke, S., & Kezar, A. (2018). Perceived outcomes associated with engagement in and design of faculty communities of practice focused on STEM reform. Research in Higher Education, 60, 844–869. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-018-9534-y

Kezar, A. J., & Holcombe, E. M. (2018). Challenges of implementing integrated programs for underrepresented students in STEM: A study of the CSU STEM collaboratives. Educational Policy. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0895904818802091

Kitchen, J.A., Sonnert, G., & Sadler, P. (2018). The impact of college‐ and university‐run high school summer programs on students’ end of high school STEM career aspirations. Science Education, https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21332

Porter, K. B., Posselt, J. R., Reyes, K., Slay, K. E., & Kamimura, A. (2018). Burdens and benefits of diversity work: emotion management in STEM doctoral students. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. 9(2), 127-143. https://doi.org/10.1108/SGPE-D-17-00041

Posselt, J. (2018). Normalizing struggle: Dimensions of faculty support for doctoral students and implications for persistence and wellbeing. Journal of Higher Education, 89(6), 988-1013. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2018.1449080

Posselt, J. R. (2018). Trust networks: A new perspective on pedigree and the ambiguities of admissions. The Review of Higher Education, (41)4, 497-521. https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2018.0023

Posselt, J., Porter, K. B., & Kamimura, A. (2018). Organizational pathways toward gender equity in doctoral education: Chemistry and civil engineering compared. American Journal of Education, 214(4), 383-410. https://doi.org/10.1086/698457

2017

Ngo, F., & Kosiewicz, H. (2017). How extending time in developmental math impacts student persistence and success: Evidence from a regression discontinuity in community colleges. The Review of Higher Education, 40(2), 267-306. https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2017.0004

Fong, K. E., & Melguizo, T. (2017). Utilizing additional measures of high school academic preparation to support students in their math self-assessment. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 41(9), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2016.1179604

Lanford, M. (2017). The political history of the Georgia HOPE scholarship program: A critical analysis. Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 1(2), 187-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322969.2017.1305258

Melguizo, T., Witham, K., Fong, K., & Chi, E. (2017). Understanding the relationship between equity and efficiency: Towards a concept of funding adequacy for community colleges. Journal of Education Finance, 43(2), 195-216. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/688012/summary

Park, J.J., & Dizon, J.P.M. (2017). Race, religion, and spirituality for Asian American students. New Directions for Student Services: Bridging Research and Practice to Support Asian American Students, 2017(160), 39-49. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15360695/2017/2017/160

Poon, O.A., Dizon, J.P.M., & Squire, D. (2017). Count me in: Ethnic data disaggregation advocacy, racial mattering, and lessons for racial justice coalitions. Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 3(1), 122-154. https://journals.shareok.org/jcscore/article/view/34

Holcombe, E., & Kezar, A. (2017). Mental model and implementing new faculty roles. Innovative Higher Education, 43(2), 91-106. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10755-017-9415-x

DePaola, T., & Kezar, A. (2017). The changing face of employment at research universities. Hidden and Visible: The Role and Impact of Contingency Faculty in Higher Education, 2017(176), 83-96. https://doi.org/10.1002/ir.20246

Tierney, W. G., & Lanford, M. (2017). Between massification and globalization: Is there a role for global university rankings? Global rankings and the geopolitics of higher education, 295-308. https://www.academia.edu/38183713/Between_Massification_and_Globalization_Is_There_a_Role_for_Global_University_Rankings

Elrod, S., & Kezar, A. (2017). Increasing student success in STEM: Summary of a guide to systemic institutional change, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 49(4), 26-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/00091383.2017.1357097

Kezar, A., Acuña Avilez, A., Drivalas, Y., & Wheaton, M. M. (2017). Building social change oriented leadership capacity among student organizations: Developing students and campuses simultaneously. New directions for student leadership, 2017(155), 45-57. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0895904819843594

Gehrke, S., & Kezar., A.J. (2017). The roles of STEM faculty communities of practice in institutional and departmental reform in higher education. American Educational Research Journal, (54)5, 803-833. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831217706736

Posselt, J. R., Reyes, K. A., Slay, K., Kamimura, A., & Porter, K. (2017). Equity efforts as boundary work: How symbolic and social boundaries shape access and inclusion in graduate education. Teachers College Record, 119(10), 1-38. http://www.tcrecord.org/library/Abstract.asp?ContentId=21903

Tierney, W. G., & Ward, J.D. (2017). The role of state policy in ensuring access, achievement, and attainment in education. American Behavioral Scientist, 61(14). http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0002764217744820

2016

Ngo, F., & Melguizo, T. (2016). Using math diagnostics to inform course placement in community colleges. Policy Analysis for California Education. https://edpolicyinca.org/newsroom/using-math-diagnostics-inform-course-placement-community-colleges

Ngo, F., & Melguizo, T. (2016). How can placement policy improve math remediation outcomes? Evidence from experimentation in community colleges. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 38(1), 171-196. https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373715603504

Museus, S.D., Shiroma, K.Y., & Dizon, J.P.M. (2016). Cultural community connections and college success: An examination of Southeast Asian American college students. Journal of College Student Development, 57(5), 485-502. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/626122

Melguizo, T., Bos, J., Ngo, F., Mills, N., & Prather, G. (2016). Using a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of placement decisions in developmental math. Research in Higher Education, 57(2), 123-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-015-9382-y

Kosiewicz, H., Ngo, F., & Fong, K. E. (2016). Alternative models to deliver developmental math: Issues of use and student access. Community College Review, 44(3), 205-231. https://doi.org/10.1177/0091552116651490

Maxey, D., & Kezar, A. (2016). Leveraging the Delphi technique to enrich knowledge and engage educational policy problems. Educational Policy, 30(7), 1042-1070. https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904815586856

Lanford, M. (2016). Perceptions of higher education reform in Hong Kong: A globalization perspective. International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 18(3), 184-204. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCED-04-2016-0007

Lanford, M., & Tierney, W. G. (2016). The international branch campus: Cloistered community or agent of social change? The Palgrave Handbook of Asia Pacific Higher Education, 157-172. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48739-1_11

Tierney, W. G., & Lanford, M. (2016). Conceptualizing innovation in higher education. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 31, 1-40. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26829-3_1

2015

Fong, K. E., Melguizo, T., & Prather, G. (2015). Increasing success rates in developmental math: The complementary role of individual and institutional characteristics. Research in Higher Education, 56(7), 719-749. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-015-9368-9

Ngo, F., & Kwon, W. (2015). Using multiple measures to make math placement decisions: Implications for access and success in community colleges. Research in Higher Education, 56(5), 442-470. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-014-9352-9

Gehrke, S., & Kezar, A. (2015). Unbundling the faculty role in higher education: Utilizing historical, theoretical and empirical frameworks to inform future research. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 93-150. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12835-1_3

Kezar, A., & Gerhke, S. (2015). Faculty grassroots leadership as philanthropy. Faculty Work and the Public Good: Philanthropy, Engagement, and Academic Professionalism. https://www.tcpress.com/faculty-work-and-the-public-good-9780807756171

Kezar, A., & Holcombe, E. (2015). The professoriate reconsidered. Academe, 101(6). https://www.aaup.org/article/professoriate-reconsidered#.W0OlhthKii4

Kezar, A., & Maxey, D. (2015). The Delphi technique: An untapped approach of participatory research. Journal of Social Science Research Methods, 19(2), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2014.936737

Maxey, D., & Kezar, A (2015). Revealing opportunities and obstacles for changing non-tenure-track faculty practices: An examination of stakeholders’ awareness of institutional contradictions. Journal of Higher Education, 86(4), 564-594. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2015.11777375

Maxey, D., & Kezar, A. (2015). Overcoming obstacles for involving part-time faculty in service-learning. Service-learning at the American community college: Theoretical and empirical perspectives, 241-256. https:/doi.org/10.1057/9781137355737_17

2014 and earlier

Melguizo, T., Kosiewicz, H., Prather, G., & Bos, J. (2014). How are community college students assessed and placed in developmental math? Grounding our understanding in reality. The Journal of Higher Education, 85(5), 691-722. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2014.11777345

Kim, B.M. (2013). Do developmental mathematics courses develop the mathematics? Addressing missing outcome problem in regression discontinuity design. [University of Southern California]. http://pulliasarchive.jihekona.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/BoMKim_2013-JMP_Missing-in-RDD.pdf

Melguizo, T., Bos, J. M., & Prather, G. (2013). Are community colleges making good placement decisions in their math trajectories? University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. http://pulliasarchive.jihekona.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Good_Placement_Decisions_Brief.pdf

Kosiewicz, H., Melguizo, T., Prather, G., & Bos, J. M. (2013). How are assessment and placement policies for developmental math designed and implemented in California community colleges? University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. http://pulliasarchive.jihekona.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Kosiewicz-Assessment-Placement-Policy-Brief-Final.pdf

Fong, K. E., Melguizo, T., Prather, G., & Bos, J. M. (2013). A different view of how we understand progression through the developmental math trajectory. University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. http://pulliasarchive.jihekona.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Different_View_Progression_Brief.pdf

Ngo, F., Kwon, W., Melguizo, T., Prather, G., & Bos, J, M. (2013). Course placement in developmental mathematics: Do multiple measures work? University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. http://pulliasarchive.jihekona.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Multiple_Measures_Brief.pdf

Kezar, A., Eaton, J., & Maxey, D. (2013). An examination of the changing faculty: Ensuring institutional quality and achieving desired student learning outcomes. Council for Higher Education Accreditation. https://www.ewa.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/chea_examination_changing_faculty_2013.pdf

Melguizo, T., Bos, J., & Prather, G. (2011). Is developmental education helping community college students persist? A critical review of the literature. American Behavioral Scientist, 55(2), 173–184. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764210381873