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Stahl, Norman A.; Theriault, Jennifer C.; Armstrong, Sonya L. – Journal of Developmental Education, 2016
This content analysis examines the topics, trends, and issues impacting developmental education and its professionals as evaluated by interviews that have appeared in the "Journal of Developmental Education" ("JDE") between the issuance of Volume 1 through Volume 39. A total of 76 interviews were analyzed with attention to…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Periodicals, Scholarship, Content Analysis
Dorsey, Carrie S. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation explores student perceptions of effective teaching strategies in a developmental writing course and their perspectives of how well the course prepared them for the freshman college composition course. Three research questions guided the study. Research Question 1 asked which teaching strategies developmental writing students…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Student Attitudes
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Zientek, Linda Reichwein; Schneider, Cynthia L.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J. – Community College Enterprise, 2014
Decreasing the number of students placed in developmental mathematics and addressing barriers that hinder student success in such courses are concerns at both the state and national levels. The present study sought to capture 89 developmental mathematics faculty perceptions of factors that contribute to students' placement and hinder student…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Mathematics, Teachers
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Mesa, Vilma – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2010
This paper presents results of a qualitative study describing classroom participation in pre-college mathematics classes taught by seven successful community college faculty members. The analysis reveals high levels of student participation coupled with low complexity, which can result in detrimental opportunities for students to learn…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Mathematics Instruction, College Faculty, Community Colleges
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Nash-Ditzel, Susan – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2010
This qualitative study aims at explaining reading beliefs and behaviors of college students taking a developmental reading course through analyzing components of the students' self-systems. A student's self-system is comprised of many different factors that may or may not develop in tandem through experiences in and out of school (Borkowski, Carr,…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Reading
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection