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Easing the Transition from School to HE: Scaffolding the Development of Self-Regulated Learning through a Dialogic Approach to Feedback
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Beaumont, Chris; Moscrop, Claire; Canning, Susan – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2016
High quality feedback is known to be essential for learning, yet in higher education it has been highlighted as a problem area in the UK by both the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and National Student Surveys. Furthermore, a recent study has shown that there is a fault-line between the highly structured guidance system that exists in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Feedback (Response), Independent Study, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Reading Intervention for Poor Readers at the Transition to Secondary School
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Clarke, Paula J.; Paul, Shirley-Anne S.; Smith, Glynnis; Snowling, Margaret J.; Hulme, Charles – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
This study evaluated two 20-week reading interventions for pupils entering secondary school with reading difficulties. The interventions were delivered by trained teaching assistants (three 35-min sessions per week). 287 pupils (ages 11-13) from 27 schools were randomly allocated to three groups: reading intervention (targeting word recognition…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Reading Instruction, Secondary School Students, Intervention