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Alyson Collins; Stephen Ciullo; Steve Graham; Joong won Lee – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: Many students in the United States need access to effective writing instruction, with some requiring intensive intervention. Results from the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) in writing over the past 25 years revealed that most students in the U.S. have yet to attain a proficient level of written expression…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Writing Instruction, Elementary School Students, Intervention
Belcher, Marcia – 1986
A study was conducted at Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) to examine the separate and combined effects of entering basic skills levels and curriculum-related variables (i.e., grades in required English and math courses, the length of time between the course and the test, and the number of credits in developmental courses) in predicting student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Mathematics Skills
Bruno, Sam J., Ed.; Pettit, John D., Jr., Ed. – 1985
These conference proceedings contain the following 23 presentations: "Development of a Communication Skill Model Using Interpretive Structural Modeling" (Karen S. Nantz and Linda Gammill); "The Coincidence of Needs: An Inventional Model for Audience Analysis" (Gina Burchard); "A Computer Algorithm for Measuring Readability" (Terry D. Lundgren);…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Business Communication, Business Education
Snow, Marguerite Ann; Brinton, Donna M. – 1988
The adjunct model of language instruction is described as it has been implemented at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). In this model, freshman English and English-as-a-second-language (ESL) courses are linked with content area courses to better integrate the reading, writing, and study skills required for academic success at the…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing