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Download full textRockey, Marci – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2016
Sauk Valley Community College (SVCC) has returned to the Pathways to Results (PTR) process to analyze and improve a new pathway each year for the last five years. They have become so invested in PTR that they have institutionalized its use into their approach to program review and continuous improvement, creating an institutional PTR team…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Partnerships in Education, Change Strategies, Integrated Activities
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Direct linkSteinke, Dorothea A. – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2017
Community college developmental math students (N = 657) from three math levels were asked to place five whole numbers on a line that had only endpoints 0 and 20 marked. How the students placed the numbers revealed the same three stages of behavior that Steffe and Cobb (1988) documented in determining young children's number sense. 23% of the…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Community Colleges, College Mathematics, Remedial Mathematics
Steinke, Dorothea A. – Journal of Adult Education, 2015
Earlier institution-sponsored research revealed that about 20% of students in community college basic math and pre-algebra programs lacked a sense of part-whole relationships with whole numbers. Using the same tool with a group of 86 workforce students, about 75% placed five whole numbers on an empty number line in a way that indicated lack of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Number Concepts, Number Systems, Numbers
Cafarella, Brian – Community College Enterprise, 2016
Developmental mathematics has been under the radar within higher education for some time. The reality is that there are many proven best practices in developmental math. Unfortunately, there are many obstacles that prevent student success. Moreover, the high rates of attrition and failure have led state legislators and college administrators to…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Higher Education, Academic Achievement, College Administration
Chadwick, Angela M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to assess the affective barriers to student achievement in developmental mathematics classes. A Delphi process was used to identify and corroborate a list of affective domain concerns that act as barriers to achievement for developmental students and developmental mathematics instructors. The process consisted of…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Affective Behavior, Affective Measures, Barriers
Sivley, Stacey Moore – ProQuest LLC, 2013
With open door admission policies, lower tuition rates, and convenient locations, community colleges are enrolling more and more academically unprepared students who are placing into developmental mathematics courses. Many of these community colleges need to assess their developmental education programs, instructors, courses, and students to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Developmental Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Community Colleges
Webb, David C.; van der Kooij, Henk; Geist, Monica R. – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2011
This article describes Realistic Mathematics Education (RME), a design theory for mathematics education proposed by Hans Freudenthal and developed over 40 years of developmental research at the Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education in the Netherlands. Activities from a unit to develop student understanding of logarithms are…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Numbers, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries
Livingston, Andrea, Ed.; Wirt, John, Ed. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2003
This publication contains a sample of the 44 indicators in "The Condition of Education 2003." The indicators in this publication are numbered sequentially, rather than according to their numbers in the complete edition. The Contents page offers a cross reference between the two publications. Since 1870, the federal government has…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Family Characteristics, Poverty
