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Download full textBickerstaff, Susan; Edgecombe, Nikki – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
Adult proficiency in numeracy in the United States lags that of other developed nations, and the nonselective institutions that dominate the higher education sector struggle to address the learning needs of the sizeable proportion of students who enroll in their institutions and are deemed academically underprepared in mathematics. Research on…
Descriptors: College Students, College Mathematics, Remedial Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs
Edgecombe, Nikki – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
Acceleration, which involves the reorganization of instruction and curricula in ways that facilitate the completion of academic requirements in an expedited manner, is an increasingly popular strategy at community colleges for improving the outcomes of developmental education students. This paper reviews the literature on acceleration and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Teaching Methods, Acceleration (Education), Academic Achievement
