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Download full textRuss Hodges; Jonathan Lollar; Taylor Acee – Learning Assistance Review, 2022
Since the 1920s, colleges have offered how-to-study courses orientating students to the rituals of academic study. We present an historical overview of these courses by highlighting major developments including the emergence of courses that evolved from skill-based curriculum underpinned by behaviorism to strategy-based curriculum underpinned by…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Courses, Educational History, Behaviorism
Peer reviewedBoylan, Hunter R.; Bonham, Barbara S.; Rodriguez, Lizette M. – Learning Assistance Review, 2000
Explores the current research on the effectiveness of remedial courses. Defines remediation in relation to developmental education, discusses the purpose of such courses, and explores the circumstances under which remedial courses succeed or fail in the accomplishment of their goals. Asserts that all students who require remediation should expect…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedMauro, Sabina M. – Learning Assistance Review, 1997
Presents an action plan for the many developmental educators who have been enraged by the entry of private companies into the developmental education field. Asserts that developmental educators should combine the best that learning assistance has to offer with the best that the private companies have to offer, within a framework and language that…
Descriptors: Competition, Delivery Systems, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change
