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Finn, Heather B.; Avni, Sharon – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
English Learners (ELs) attend community colleges at a greater rate than four-year schools, making community colleges primary sites of ESL education in American higher education. These institutions' recent embrace of the corequisite structure -- a pairing of a non-credit developmental course with a credit-bearing disciplinary content course in…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, English (Second Language)
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Ran, Florence Xiaotao; Sanders, Jasmine – AERA Open, 2020
More than half of community college courses are taught by part-time faculty. Drawing on data from six community colleges, this study estimates the effects of part-time faculty versus full-time faculty on students' current and subsequent course outcomes in developmental and gateway courses, using course fixed effects and propensity score matching…
Descriptors: Part Time Faculty, Teacher Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Community Colleges