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What Can Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing First-Year Community College Students Teach Us about Reading?
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Jessica Williams; Thomastine Sarchet; Dawn Walton – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2024
More U.S. community college students are enrolling without the requisite reading skills to be successful. Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students are following a similar pattern with a little less than half requiring remedial instruction when entering college. College-age readers were the first population that we studied to learn about reading and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Freshmen, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
The Interplay between Academic Writing Abilities of Dutch Undergraduate Students, a Remedial Writing Programme, and Academic Achievement
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Kuiken, Folkert; Vedder, Ineke – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Academic language proficiency, particularly academic writing, appears to be significantly related to academic achievement. The aim of the present study is to explore the relationship between written language proficiency and academic achievement, and to investigate the effects of a remedial academic writing programme. Academic writing was assessed…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Academic Achievement, Writing Skills, Skill Development
Experiences of First-Year Community College Students in Learning Support Programs: A Narrative Inquiry
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Miller, Amanda G. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Many students who begin their higher education journey at community colleges are academically underprepared and lack the skills necessary to begin college-level courses. As a result, underprepared students are required to begin a remedial course sequence designated as "learning support". The purpose of this qualitative narrative inquiry…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Freshmen, Academic Support Services, Qualitative Research
Closing the Gap in Remediation through Persistence in American Community College Students
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Huff, Ernest W., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Two-year colleges enroll many students every year that are not prepared for college level work. The purpose of this study was to determine what factors contribute to students needing to take remediation as well as what factors lead to successfully exiting developmental education. This study looked at students who began postsecondary education in…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Remedial Programs, Achievement Gap
Influence of Self-Regulated Learning and Parental Education on Post-Secondary Remediation
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Orange, Carolyn; Hodges, Traci L. – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2015
This study examines the relationship between self-regulated learning (SRL), parent education, and the need to enroll in postsecondary remedial education courses, using first year college student data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS: 2002). This observational study was conducted…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Independent Study, Parent Education, Postsecondary Education
Making Selective Admissions More Meaningful
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Armenta, Tony – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2008
Accreditation bodies, state departments of education, learned societies, and critics of educational leadership programs have emphasized the need for such programs to recruit and select the candidates who have the greatest potential of becoming effective school leaders. To meet this challenge, most university principal preparation programs have…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Admission Criteria, Educational Administration, Administrator Education