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Download full textSnyder, Fred A.; Blocker, Clyde E. – 1970
Students entering Harrisburg Area Community College (H.A.C.C.), Pennsylvania, who are identified as being inadequately prepared for regular coursework are assigned to appropriate developmental courses, to prepare them for subsequent entry into the regular career or transfer curricula. A recent analysis of the program outlines such factors as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Developmental Programs, Institutional Research
Brody, Lawrence; And Others – 1968
This report examines the College Discovery and Development Program, which seeks to identify underachieving disadvantaged high school students with college potential, to increase their academic motivation, to improve their scholastic achievement, to develop their acceptance of college study as a realistic expectation for themselves, and to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Preparation, Compensatory Education
Brody, Lawrence; And Others – 1969
This report examines the College Discovery and Development Program, which seeks (1) to identify underachieving disadvantaged high school students with college potential, (2) to increase their academic motivation, (3) to improve their scholastic achievement, (4) to develop their acceptance of college study as a realistic expectation for themselves,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Gains, College Preparation
Reynolds, Marianne C. – 1985
This paper examines remedial programs in colleges and discusses the relationship of those programs to diagnostic testing. The Basic Skills Placement Test (BSPT) is required of all College freshman in New Jersey public colleges. Mercer County Community College, used as an example throughout this paper, uses the BSPT as a basis for placing students…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Developmental Programs, Diagnostic Tests
Peer reviewedWindham, Patricia – Visions: The Journal of Applied Research for the Florida Association of Community Colleges, 2002
Discusses remedial education in Florida, focusing on student characteristics, student achievement in remedial and college courses, and the cost of remedial education on the state. Reports that the total cost of remediation at Florida's 28 public community colleges for 1997-1998 was $64,537,463, almost half of which the state paid. (Contains 19…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Preparation, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education
Young, Eric D. – 1980
Using a developmental research model, this longitudinal study focused on the academic development throughout secondary education of participants in a Midwestern Upward Bound project. The study attempted to determine whether the participants collectively demonstrated significant gains in achievement as a direct result of involvement in Upward Bound…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Developmental Studies Programs
