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Download full textRoss, Elinor P.; Roe, Betty D. – 1986
Comprehensive programs to enable students to acquire skills necessary for college work are discussed. It is suggested that developmental courses be supplements to regular academic courses. In starting a new developmental program, three factors are important: commitment of the school's faculty and administration to the program's success, adequate…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, High Risk Students
Peer reviewedSpann, Milton G.; Calderwood, Barbara J. – Journal of Developmental Education, 1998
Presents an interview with Edward Morante, Dean of Student Services and Learning Resources at College of the Desert (California), regarding the needs of high-risk community college students. Morante focuses on assessment, placement, basic-skills courses, student-support services, the learning-community concept, student involvement, and evaluation,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, High Risk Students
Roberts, George H. – 1986
The provision of developmental education to the academically underprepared student in colleges and universities in the United States is traced historically. U.S. colleges admitted underprepared students before the advent of open admissions and equal opportunity policies. In fact, the presence of underprepared students in American colleges has been…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Preparation, College Students, Developmental Studies Programs
Presley, John W. – 1981
In 1974, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia created the developmental studies program in response to a growing number of entering freshmen who were inadequately prepared for curricula assuming mastery of the basic skills. Early attempts to evaluate developmental programs in Georgia simply used standard survey techniques to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Developmental Studies Programs, English Instruction
Stonehocker, Loya – 1985
A study of student skill levels and remediation needs was conducted at Grande Prairie Regional College (GPRC). The study involved: (1) a survey of the literature on the underprepared learner, basic skills, remedial and developmental education, learning skills centers, assessment and placement, attrition, faculty development, and program…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Basic Skills, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Diagnosis
Gudan, Sirkka – 1994
There has been a significant increase in the numbers of underprepared students entering colleges and universities. At Schoolcraft College, in Michigan, data consistently indicate that large percentages of students score below college level in reading, writing, and mathematics skills. Classroom techniques that can help faculty better meet the needs…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs
Seymour, Evan – 1986
Making sense of developmental education in the two-year college is difficult, particularly in the shadow of the fear that it is not working very well. There is no choice, however, but to examine openly a serious problem. The "story" about developmental education in the two-year college that most educators would like to believe is that of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Lederman, Marie Jean – 1986
Two main points should be noted concerning strategies recommended for teaching basic writing students. First, teachers can develop only those strategies that are consonant with their own personalities and that will enable students to develop their own writing strategies. Second, whatever strategies are selected should lead students beyond the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen
Bohr, Dorothy H.; And Others – 1983
A profile is presented in this report of Project HELP (Higher Education Learning Package), a liberal arts instructional program alternative developed to assist high-risk, first-time community college students, with multiple deficiencies in reading, writing, and computational skills, to succeed and continue in college. Introductory material…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs
Wallace, H. Lew; And Others – 1980
A project was undertaken by three faculty members at Northern Kentucky University (a history teacher, a reading specialist, and a composition teacher) to apply their own experiences and the research of others into a systematic and comprehensive mastery learning program for developmental classes in the spring of 1980. The program was designed to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, College Students, Developmental Studies Programs
Germanna Community Coll., Locust Grove, VA. – 2002
This document reports on student outcomes in developmental English and mathematics courses at Germanna Community College (Virginia) for the academic period 1994-2000. The study addressed four main issues: (1) the proportion of students enrolled in developmental math and English courses; (2) the success rate for students in developmental courses;…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Basic Skills, College English, Community Colleges
PDF pending restorationHigbee, Jeanne L., Ed.; Dwinell, Patricia L., Ed. – 1998
The 16 chapters of this volume describe a wide variety of developmental programs intended to promote skill development and enhance academic performance for high-risk students at all levels of higher education. Following an introductory chapter by the editors, the chapters are: (1) "The Origin, Scope, and Outcomes of Developmental Education in the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Admission, College Bound Students, College Freshmen
Rasor, Richard A. – 1998
This paper addresses the methodological issues encountered when attempting to evaluate a college course's effectiveness by determining whether students who enroll in it perform at higher levels than students who did not enroll. The paper identifies resource people who may be helpful in the evaluation, and offers guidelines for the research…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Course Evaluation, Developmental Studies Programs
Rosenberg, Louise C.; LaRosa, Barbara V. – 1990
The Pre-College Summer Institute (PCSI) program has been in effect at the University of Hartford, College of Basic Studies, since the summer of 1968. PCSI was a five-week, five-days-a-week program designed to evaluate and prepare marginally acceptable students for the college's entering freshman class. Initially, the program was designed to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Bound Students, College Freshmen, College Instruction
Bengis, Laraine – 1986
The Prefreshman Summer Program for academically and economically handicapped students at the City University of New York (CUNY) was evaluated in 1985 and compared to previous evaluations. The voluntary, 6-week transitional program provides intensive basic skills instruction, tutoring, counseling, and financial aid to incoming students who fail to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, College Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs
