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Perin, Dolores; Raufman, Julia; Kalamkarian, Hoori Santikian – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2015
This paper reports findings from a researcher-practitioner partnership that assessed the readiness for postsecondary reading and writing demands of 211 students in developmental reading and English courses in two community colleges. An assessment battery was designed for the study, comprising two standardized tests and five projectdeveloped tasks.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Partnerships in Education, College Readiness, Community Colleges
Bartley-Lukula, Audrey – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This research project examined whether the use of Instructor-guided Supplemental Instruction as a classroom scaffolding technique, might help improve testing and assessment reading outcomes for reading-deficient college students. The study was completed at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee over the 16-week Fall, 2012 semester…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), College Students, Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills
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Burgess, Melissa L.; Benge, Cindy; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Mallette, Marla H. – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2012
Little is known about reading ability among doctoral students. Thus, we used a fully mixed concurrent equal status design (Leech & Onwuegbuzie, 2009) to examine 205 doctoral students in the College of Education and their reasons for reading research articles. A thematic analysis revealed 5 themes (subsumed by 2 meta-themes) explaining reasons…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Reading Ability, Thematic Approach, Mixed Methods Research