Developmental education might then be defined as a professional specialty concerned with promoting educational opportunity, academic skill development, and educational efficiency in postsecondary education. A developmental educator would then be anyone who has a primary professional commitment to this specialty as evidenced by his or her participation in research, training, or delivery of services in the field. And developmental programs would include any organizational entity on a college campus designed to accomplish the mission of the field. An analysis of research. The National Association for Remedial and Developmental Studies in Post Secondary Education.
Practitioners formulate competencies for developmental educators.
Honored But Invisible. The need for resolution of terminology confusion in developmental education. A glossary of developmental education terms compiled by the CRLA task force on professional language for college reading and learning.