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Direct linkJonathan Lollar – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research studies indicated that learning support professionals, which includes postsecondary developmental education professionals, often lacked opportunities for training to engage with the population of students they work with, as well as current instructional practices and/or reforms. While the research is expansive, it has focused on the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Postsecondary Education, School Personnel, Teacher Attitudes
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Download full textBlaauw-Hara, Mark; Tebeau, Carrie Strand; Borowiak, Dominic; Blaauw-Hara, Jami – Composition Studies, 2020
Current trends in developmental writing have focused on corequisite support courses that developmental writers take in conjunction with college-level courses. Much recent scholarship has focused on the design of the corequisite course, but a corequisite model also raises the stakes of the curricular design of the college-level course, since it now…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges
Pacello, James – Journal of Developmental Education, 2019
Using portions of the findings of a qualitative study, this article examines how students described their writing experiences across the curriculum after completing a developmental writing class. The course was purposefully designed to help students become aware that they were developing knowledge about writing that was applicable to other…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Transfer of Training, College Students, Student Attitudes
Saxon, D. Patrick; Martirosyan, Nara – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2020
The redesign of the instructional delivery of developmental mathematics courses is currently commonplace. This study reports the results of a survey of faculty who teach various models of accelerated developmental mathematics (ADM) courses in 2- and 4-year colleges across the United States. Findings reported and described include the positive…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Mathematics Instruction, College Faculty, College Students
Lantz, Stacy Stairs – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of participation in the LifeSkills Training (LST) program on student outcomes regarding attendance, discipline, and mental health referrals. Four middle schools located in Western and Central Pennsylvania participated in the study. A total number of 231 participants from three schools…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Daily Living Skills, Training, Attendance
Beatty-Guenter, Patricia; Cowin, Bob; James, Ted – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2018
The project presented in this report examined how the public post-secondary education system in British Columbia (BC) uses various means to admit applicants who have not achieved high school graduation -- the normal criterion for admission -- to universities, colleges and institutes in the province. The criteria by which post-secondary…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dropouts, College Admission, College Applicants
Aspen Institute, 2018
Ideal for faculty and administrators looking to blend business education and the liberal arts, this toolkit combines exemplary syllabi from 26 leading institutions with step-by-step strategies to advocate successfully for curricular innovation. Conceived with comprehensiveness in mind, these resources cover both inspiration and implementation for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Business Administration Education, Humanities, Liberal Arts
Arendale, David R., Ed. – Online Submission, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this directory was to identify, describe, and evaluate evidence that the education practices improve academic performance, close the achievement gap, and improve persistence towards graduation for low-income, first-generation, and historically-underrepresented 6th grade through college students. Method: The sample for the…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement
