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Direct linkLavonier, Nicole – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Limited research is available on the effectiveness of remedial college courses. The present study evaluated the effectiveness of two instructional approaches for developmental reading courses at a community college in the southwestern United States. The instructional approaches were traditional textbook-based instruction and strategic-reading…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges, Evaluation, Teaching Methods
Broughton, Suzanne H.; Sinatra, Gale M.; Reynolds, Ralph E. – Journal of Educational Research, 2010
Students often hold misconceptions that conflict with scientific explanations. Research has shown that refutation texts are effective for facilitating conceptual change in these cases (Guzzetti, Snyder, Glass, & Gamas, 1993). The process through which refutation texts have their effect is not clear. The authors replicated and extended previous…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions, Concept Formation
PDF pending restorationLang, William Steve; Brackett, Elizabeth Jane – 1985
A study measured the effectiveness of the computerized remedial reading program at Spartanburg Methodist College (South Carolina), and scrutinized potential instruments that might be used for placement and for exiting the program. Subjects were 48 college freshmen enrolled in a remedial reading class which consisted of 60% computer assisted…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Download full textMARSH, LUTHER A.; PIERCE-JONES, JOHN – 1968
TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION AS AN ADJUNCT TO MORE TRADITIONAL METHODS OF COLLEGE TEACHING, THE EXPERIMENTORS IN THIS STUDY DEVISED METHODS OF TESTING RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING MACHINES, WORKBOOKS, SELF-PACED AND IMPOSED SCHEDULES, TRADITIONAL TEXTBOOKS AND SELECTED READINGS. THEY ALSO EXAMINED THE EFFECT OF…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Higher Education, Learning, Learning Processes
Sherrell, Eugene G. – 1978
A Missouri study was conducted to investigate the reading abilities of the average vocational technical student to determine if this reading ability was commensurate with the material the student was assigned to read, and to compare the effectiveness of the reading ability to success in completing a vocational course of study. In order to secure…
Descriptors: High School Students, Instructional Materials, Readability, Readability Formulas
