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Emblom-Callahan, Maggie; Burgess-Palm, Nekisha; Davis, Sandra; Decker, Amanda; Diritto, Heather; Dix, Shana; Parker, Camisha; Styles, Eric – Inquiry, 2019
The successes of corequisite remediation courses and supplemental instruction over traditional remediation courses such as the modular Math Essentials have been widely and recently documented (Logue, Watanabe-Rose, & Douglas, 2016). Corequisite reform is an important strategy to improve student completion of higher education goals. A robust…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Supplementary Education, Required Courses, Community Colleges
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Parker, Patricia – Inquiry, 2019
The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) embarked on a comprehensive mathematics pathways project in October 2015 with a move from design to implementation in spring 2017. The VCCS Mathematics Pathways Project (VMPP) aimed not only to develop strategies to improve retention and completion, but also to address foundational barriers to students'…
Descriptors: Statewide Planning, Change Strategies, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
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Interlante, Lindsey; De Riemer, Cynthia; Palomino, Araceli; Tirpak, Philip C. – Inquiry, 2016
A full-scale oral communication assessment was conducted by the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) during the academic year 2013-14. Key components of this assessment included faculty involvement at all stages of assessment and collaboration with assessment coordinators and lead staff personnel. The VCCS Office of Institutional Research and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Speech Communication, Communication Skills
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Long, Thomas Lawrence – Inquiry, 2009
Two national studies of Americans' changing reading habits, published by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), quantified the grounds for concerns that college and university educators have expressed in recent years based on their own anecdotal evidence from observing students. "Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Reading Habits, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills