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Rocchi, Meredith; Couture, A. Lauren – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2018
Background: Within the field of coach development, previous research has ascertained that elite coaches learn through a variety of formal, non-formal, and informal sources. Little is known, however, about how coaches from different coaching contexts such as recreational and developmental learn to coach. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Recreational Programs, Online Surveys, Questionnaires, Athletic Coaches
Pierce, Calisa A. – Journal of Developmental Education, 2017
With the continuing national emphases on acceleration and completion, an integrated reading and writing course (a combined developmental reading and developmental writing course, with all levels compressed into a single course) is one way to move students more quickly and efficiently through the developmental sequence while still maintaining…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Community Colleges, Integrated Curriculum, College Programs
Boudreaux, Mary Keller – Educational Research Quarterly, 2016
This quantitative study is a comparative analysis of developmental students' print and online support metacognitive strategy use. More specifically, a study was conducted utilizing the Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory (MARSI) to measure developmental college students' awareness and perceived use of support reading strategies…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Reading Strategies, Interest Inventories, Printed Materials
Vick, Nicholas; Robles-Piña, Rebecca A.; Martirosyan, Nara M.; Kite, Valerie – Community College Enterprise, 2015
Tutoring is an important form of academic support for developmental education students. A comparison study was conducted to investigate the benefits of tutoring on the final grades for developmental English students who participated in tutoring versus those students who did not. The final grades for three consecutive semesters were analyzed to…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Instructional Effectiveness, Developmental Programs, English
Beamer, Zachary – Community College Enterprise, 2021
Many students enter higher education with poor preparation for college mathematics courses. These students are often placed through high-stakes placement testing into developmental coursework that bear no credit towards graduation, but many students who begin in developmental coursework never succeed in a college-level mathematics course. Recent…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Academic Achievement, Graduation, Remedial Mathematics
Vermillion, Mark – Metropolitan Universities, 2014
The purpose of the research was to identify student athletes' perceptions of their athletic department regarding student development. Student athletes from a Division I athletic department were surveyed (n = 369) in order to monitor their development. Regression analyses, which included respondent's sport, gender, classification, reports of abuse,…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, College Students, Athletes, Student Attitudes
Alghamdi, Omear S. – World Journal of Education, 2015
This study is aimed at evaluating the level of satisfaction of preparatory year students at Al-Baha University with the academic and non-academic services they receive, and determining whether there were any differences in student satisfaction on the basis of personal variables (gender, college, distance). This research used quantitative…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Gender Differences, Predictor Variables, Student Satisfaction
Paulson, Eric J. – Journal of Developmental Education, 2014
Although a solid body of research concerning the role of analogies in reading processes has emerged at a variety of age groups and reading proficiencies, few of those studies have focused on analogy use by readers enrolled in college developmental reading courses. The current study explores whether 232 students enrolled in mandatory (by placement…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Developmental Tasks, Reading Programs, Remedial Reading
One Policy, Disparate Reactions: Institutional Responses in Florida's Developmental Education Reform
Park, Toby J.; Tandberg, David A.; Hu, Shouping; Hankerson, Dava – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
This paper seeks to better understand how community colleges in Florida planned to implement a new sweeping state policy pertaining to developmental education. Via a cluster analysis, we identify three distinct patterns in the ways in which the colleges responded to the policy: reformers, responders, and resisters. Further, we find that these…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Change, Community Colleges, State Policy
Smith, Kristy L.; Weir, Patricia L. – High Ability Studies, 2013
The relative age effect (RAE) suggests that athletes may be provided with greater opportunities for success depending on the position of their birthdate in a sport's selection year. While the effect has been well established in men's sports, less is known about women's sports. This study examined the RAE in developmental girls' hockey in Ontario.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Age Differences, Athletes, Females
Smart, B. Matthew; Saxon, D. Patrick – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
A study was conducted at a community college in northeast Alabama to determine how the format of developmental English courses impacted student withdrawal rates and final grades. The two course formats examined were online/hybrid and face-to-face courses. Data were obtained from a 4-semester time frame: fall 2012, spring 2013, summer 2013, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Rural Areas, Developmental Programs
Martinez, Maria Emilia; Bain, Steve Frank – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2014
Current research and policy literature indicate an increase in remediation courses nationwide (Tierney & Garcia, 2011; Parsad & Lewis, 2003). However, the most critical theme in research suggests variability and possible inaccuracies in remedial and developmental education data (Kirst, 2007; Venezia, Kirst & Antonio, 2004). In…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Remedial Programs, Developmental Programs, Program Costs
Davidson, J. Cody; Petrosko, Joseph M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
At two-year public community colleges, the 2011 three-year persistence rate was 23.9%. From 1988 to 2006, between 40% and 60% of all first-time community college students were referred to and enrolled in at least one developmental education course. More students begin college underprepared in mathematics than any other subject area, and only about…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Predictor Variables, Technical Education, Academic Persistence
Hodara, Michelle – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
English as a second language (ESL) courses seek to address a primary barrier to college success for language minority students: second language issues that can inhibit their success in college-level coursework. But, there is a limited understanding of the effects of ESL on college student outcomes. Using a rich, longitudinal data set that includes…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Minorities, Two Year College Students
Atkins, Charlene; Beggs, C. T. – NADE Digest, 2017
This study compares the results of a developmental co-requisite program with those of a traditional pre-requisite program in an attempt to determine whether the two models provide equivalent levels of effectiveness and efficiency. The research focused on gateway course completion scores and final exam scores for undergraduate students enrolled in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Remedial Mathematics, Undergraduate Students, Success