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Direct linkFlink, Patrick – Reading Improvement, 2020
An increasing number of students are enrolling in colleges underprepared for the demands of college-level coursework. There is a need for innovative approaches for developmental reading instruction to improve long-term academic and career success. The purpose of this study was to investigate adult developmental reading students' attitudes…
Descriptors: Sustained Silent Reading, Reading Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Introductory Courses
Download full textWard, Terry J.; Foote, Rebecca A.; Phillips, Mary E. – American Journal of Business Education, 2014
Due to concerns about student performance in Intermediate Accounting I, our Department of Accounting established an Intermediate Readiness Committee in the spring of 2006 to create a developmental program for students entering Intermediate I, with the goal of improving performance in that course. Over the next two years, the Committee established…
Descriptors: Intervention, Accounting, Introductory Courses, Program Development
Maciejewski, Wes – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2012
Recently in Ontario, Canada, the College Math Project brought to light startling data on the achievement of students in Ontario's College of Applied Arts and Technology System related to their performance in first-year mathematics courses: one-third of the students had failed their first-year mathematics course or were at risk of not completing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Mathematics, Introductory Courses, Remedial Mathematics
Brothen, Thomas – Learning Assistance Review, 2012
This article describes the evaluation of separate discussion sections for special admissions students participating in a developmental program and attending an introduction to psychology course. In year one, the special admissions students were segregated into separate small enrollment discussion sections within the larger course. In year two,…
Descriptors: Special Programs, Developmental Studies Programs, Program Effectiveness, Supplementary Education
Bauer, D'Arlyn A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to assess the characteristics and impact of developmental courses on students enrolled in developmental mathematics and English courses at a small mid-Western tribal college. This was a quantitative, descriptive study of the courses and the students over a six year timeframe. All students who enrolled in…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Tribally Controlled Education, Course Descriptions, Longitudinal Studies
D'Addario, Albert S. – Online Submission, 2011
This field-based action research practicum investigated how students who have completed culinary training programs in Massachusetts public secondary schools perform in post-secondary coursework. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has developed the Vocational Technical Education (VTE) Framework for Culinary Arts that outlines…
Descriptors: Action Research, Articulation (Education), Technical Education, Vocational Evaluation
