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Peer reviewedLietz, Petra – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1996
Results from 291 first-year Australian college students with learning and writing difficulties (language minorities or students from other countries) suggest a direct effect of those difficulties on performance in first-year biology. College language and learning services that address areas in which students recognize their difficulties may…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, College Students, English (Second Language)
Download full textChristensen, Carol A.; Elkins, John – 1995
Students experience learning in a diversity of cultural contexts. A study examined the way in which the causes and appropriate remediation of learning problems are conceptualized across cultures. Also, it explored Australian teachers' beliefs about a number of issues related to policy and practice in the education of students with learning…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
