Students who entered the 9th grade in a Florida public school in the 2003-04 school year or later and earned a Florida standard high school diploma are not required to be assessed for readiness for college-level work in communication and computation and are not required to enroll in developmental education instruction in a Florida College System institution. This same exemption applies to students who are serving as active duty members of the United States Armed Services.

Students who are not required to be assessed for readiness for college-level work in communication and computation may opt to be assessed and to enroll in developmental education. For students whose assessment scores indicate a need for developmental education, colleges must advise the students of all the developmental education options from which they can choose.

In 2021-22, approximately 2% of students (as measured by FTE) attending Florida colleges were enrolled in developmental education.

• modularized instruction that is customized and targeted to address specific skills gaps;
• compressed course structures that accelerate student progression from developmental instruction to college-level coursework;
• contextualized developmental instruction that is related to meta-majors (a collection of programs of study or academic discipline groupings that share common foundational skills); and/or
• corequisite developmental instruction or tutoring that supplements credit instruction while a student is concurrently enrolled in a credit-bearing course.

Reports
Five Principles for Reforming Developmental Education (October 2022), Center of the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness

Websites of Interest
Florida College System 
Florida College System Policy Reports and Data 
Florida College System Data and Reports
Community College Research Center
Education Estimating Conference, Florida College System Enrollment Forecast

Performance Information

Office of the Chancellor, Division of Florida Colleges, 850-245-0407, email: FCSInfo@fldoe.org
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