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Kalbfleisch, Elizabeth; Schmitt, Elena; Zipoli, Richard P. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2021
This article reports on a collaborative research project involving faculty in writing studies, communication disorders, and applied linguistics that sought to empirically describe the reading skills of students (N = 910) in freshman composition classes at one college and two universities in the northeast United States. The research team developed…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Academic Language, College Freshmen, Reading Skills
Christopher Iverson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study explores the effects of community engagement on college writers years after completing first-year composition courses with service-learning partnerships. Since the 1990's, scholarship has connected service-learning pedagogy and the gains that student writers stand to enjoy when writing for audiences beyond the classroom and purposes…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Writing Instruction, Rhetoric
National Center on Education and the Economy, 2013
In the fall of 2009, the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) initiated a series of research programs designed to support the high school reform program, "Excellence for All," based on more than 20 years of research on the school reform programs of the countries with the most successful education programs worldwide. A…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Community Colleges, College Freshmen