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Wathington, Heather D.; Barnett, Elisabeth A.; Fay, Maggie P.; Mitchell, Claire; Pretlow, Joshua; Bork, Rachel Hare – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2012
The authors investigated the design and implementation of the capstone courses that are part of Virginia's College and Career Readiness Initiative. Based on a set of performance expectations for college readiness, two capstone courses--one in English and one in mathematics--were developed to help support high school juniors and seniors who intend…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Implementation, Curriculum, Course Content
Virginia Department of Education, 2011
Virginia's "College and Career Ready English Performance Expectations" grade 12 capstone course contains high-interest contextualized content designed to give certain students an additional boost for competent and successful entry into college and careers. The course will add to students' preparation for critical reading, college and…
Descriptors: Course Content, Grade 12, Educational Objectives, Behavioral Objectives
Moore, Claude – 1973
To gain statistical information as to the success of the Developmental Mathematics course (Math 01) at Danville Community College, data were collected on 77 students who completed the course between the winter quarter 1970-71 and the fall quarter 1971-72. The grades of this group in six subsequent mathematics courses were compared with those of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Mathematics, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis