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Metacognitive Reading Strategies Can Improve Self-Regulation
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Nash-Ditzel, Susan – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2010
This case study explores the impact of metacognitive reading strategies on the ability of five college students in developmental courses to self-regulate while reading. Instruction in reading strategies derived from past research on metacognition was scaffolded, based on Pearson and Gallagher's (1983) model of gradual release of responsibility.…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Reading Strategies, Developmental Studies Programs, Metacognition
Burnout in Developmental Education: A Social Environmental Perspective on the Risk for Those Who Work With Students at Risk.
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Nieves, Edwin E.; Hartman, Kathleen A. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2002
Addresses how current conditions in the field of developmental education are fueling burnout among educators. Recognizes the role an educator's personality may play in burnout. Presents three cases of teacher burnout. Concludes that the strong argument for the social environmental perspective as a cause of burnout puts the identification and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developmental Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
What to Do with Developmental Education.
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Dochen, Carol W.; Hodges, Russell B. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 1997
Explores the realities of change facing a successful junior college which must become a regional four-year university. Identifies and discusses (in a response by William G. White Jr.) the problems and issues relative to the developmental program at Evans County Junior College on the eve of its conversion to regional university--Jan Norton…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Higher Education