developmental Education Literature : Proposed Architecture

[email protected] ABSTRACT: Developmental education is an area of practice in higher education which continues to develop and expand. To date, it has been without a system portraying the logical relationships between various constructs employed in the field. A descriptive content analysis, considering 796 individual units from five different sources to construct a proposed architecture of the literature of developmental education, is presented. The project seeks to portray, in respect to the literature sampled, both the logical relationships existing between various topics in the literature of developmental education and the weight given to any particular topic. The result provides an overview of the field of developmental education and its literature based on the topics addressed and purposes advanced by the many practitioners and scholars who authored the manuscripts surveyed.