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Direct linkJennifer Lalitha Flaubert, Rapporteur; Adrienne Formentos, Rapporteur; Erin Hammers Forstag, Rapporteur; Forum on Advancing Diagnostic Excellence, Contributor; Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Contributor; Board on Global Health, Contributor; Board on Health Care Services, Contributor; Health and Medicine Division, Contributor – National Academies Press, 2025
Diagnostic errors are a significant patient safety concern, impacting millions of people across the United States each year. Strengthening education and training for all health care professionals involved in the diagnostic process is essential to improving diagnostic accuracy, timeliness of treatment, and patient outcomes. In April 2025, the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Teaching Methods, Clinical Diagnosis, Feedback (Response)
Grubb, W. Norton – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013
Nearly two-thirds of students require some form of remediation before taking college-level classes, and community colleges have become increasingly important in providing this education. Unfortunately, relatively few students complete the developmental courses required to make a transition to college-level work. Based on a three-year study of over…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Basic Skills, Remedial Programs
Gross, Jo-Anne – 2000
The Remediation Plus System for reading, spelling, and writing is based on phonemic awareness training, linguistic gymnastics, and Orton Gillingham methodology. It employs multisensory, systematic phonics and "exhaustively thorough" lesson plans. The system contains a training manual, a testing manual, three training videos, a…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Remedial Instruction, Remedial Programs
Tarnopol, Lester, Ed.; Tarnopol, Muriel, Ed. – 1976
This volume includes essays on reading disabilities in such places as Argentina, Austria, Belgium, China, Canada, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, The Netherlands, Rhodesia, Republic of South Africa, and the United States. Most of the 20 essays include the background of special education in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Reading, Reading Difficulties
McCabe, Robert H. – 2000
Twenty-five community colleges participated in a study that tracked 71 percent of 592 students who successfully enrolled in a remedial program in 1990. Follow-up interviews of program completers gathered information about further education, employment, family, and facts about post-remedial life. A criminal justice search was also conducted on the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Based Assessment, High Risk Students, Remedial Instruction
Steward, Joyce S.; Croft, Mary K. – 1982
The four chapters of this book move from the history, philosophy, and approaches that writing laboratories encompass to a look at the many facets of their organization before treating in detail the actual teaching process and the practical elements of writing laboratory management. Chapter one notes the growth of writing labs and discusses…
Descriptors: Administration, Higher Education, Learning Laboratories, Organization
Food Research and Action Center, New York, NY. – 1974
This report is the result of a 2-year study of existing day care and summer feeding programs sponsored by the USDA undertaken to provide background information, define the current status, determine restraints and make recommendations for improvement in such programs. A history of the creation of the Special Food Service Program for Children…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Day Care, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
Sawyer, Diane J., Ed. – 1980
Focusing on helping teachers to understand and help children who have reading disabilities, the 13 papers in this volume were prepared by practitioners at various levels from public school, community, and university settings. The papers included in part one offer insights into the concomitant aspects of reading difficulties. Specific topics…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Inservice Education, Learning Disabilities
McAllen, Audrey E. – 1989
This book gives teachers an understanding of speech training through specially selected exercises. The book's exercises aim to help develop clear speaking in the classroom. Methodically and perceptively used, the book will assist those concerned with the creative powers of speech as a teaching art. In Part 1, there are sections on the links…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Consonants, Creative Activities, Educational Practices
Calfee, Robert C., Ed.; Drum, Priscilla A., Ed. – 1979
This book examines the study of compensatory reading programs which was undertaken by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) at 537 schools, and presents the results in a format usable by administrators, legislators, and teachers. Chapters deal with the following topics: the compensatory reading survey; communities and schools; a profile of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Questionnaires
McCabe, Robert H. – 2003
This book argues that most academically deficient students do not lack talent, but do lack preparation. Nearly half of students entering community colleges are underprepared, and fewer than half gain the competency needed to succeed in college-level courses. Community colleges have the capability to develop these talents for the benefit of the…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education, Developmental Studies Programs
Download full textSlavin, Robert E.; And Others – 1989
Much more is known about how to best prevent and remediate learning deficits than is being applied. However, much remains to be learned about effective programs for students at risk of failure. Major restructuring of compensatory and special education programs in the early grades is needed to ensure all students an adequate level of basic skills…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Intermediate Grades
Moore, William, Jr. – 1976
It is a widely accepted fact that community and junior colleges have a special commitment to serve students who in other types of higher educational institutions would be considered high risks because they are less likely than other entrants to complete their chosen programs of study. Professor Moore makes clear that the commitment, though well…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Counseling, Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Tollefson, Arthur L. – 1975
Student development has come to have a special meaning that focuses on activities undertaken for the educational benefit of the student outside the traditional purview of the professor. It has a positive educational rather than administrative aspect that has come to be associated with student personnel work. This accentuating of the positive has…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives
DeVillar, Robert A.; Faltis, Christian J. – 1991
This book offers an alternative conceptual framework for effectively incorporating computer use within the heterogeneous classroom. The framework integrates Vygotskian social-learning theory with Allport's contact theory and the principles of cooperative learning. In Part 1 an essential element is identified for each of these areas. These are, in…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
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