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Perun, Stefan Austin – Community College Review, 2015
Objective: To learn how interactions among the content, professor, and students shaped passing and failing developmental English at one urban-serving community college (USCC). Method: I observed three sections of developmental English at USCC throughout a semester and conducted semi-structured interviews with all three professors and a sample of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Urban Schools, Remedial Instruction
Canfield, Barbara – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There are a large number of students entering college underprepared for college-level mathematics (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2011). While this problem is not new, it has become the focus of national attention because of the impact it has on college completion and workforce development. There is much written in the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Phenomenology, Academic Persistence, Two Year College Students
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Choy, Siew Chee; Sedhu, Daljeet Singh; Liew, Yow Lin; Lee, Mun Yee; Malenee, Audrey; Anuar, Norkhadirah – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2015
Purpose: The reason many Asian students find student-centred learning challenging may be due to cultural factors present in every human interaction between individuals. This study attempts to determine the influence of these cultural factors on students' awareness of how and why they learn. Method: A sample of 12 students enrolled in a two year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Asian Culture, Student Centered Learning
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VanOra, Jason – Community College Enterprise, 2012
This article adds to existing literatures on "developmental students," or those placing into non-credit-bearing reading and/or writing classes, by exploring their own personal experiences of attending community college. The findings of this qualitative study, based on a set of semistructured interviews with 18 developmental students in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Community Colleges, Role Models, Writing Assignments