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Language, Meaning, and Knowledge: Empowering Developmental Students To Participate in the Academy.

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Hayes, Christopher G.; And Others – 1989

Meaning and knowledge are separate constructs. Meaning is an idiosyncratic, cognitive construct; knowledge is a social construct built upon various shared meanings that are reconstructed and judged to be accurate or probable by a particular community. Language is the medium through which both meaning and knowledge are formed. Instructors can…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Strategies, Epistemology

The Rx for Remedial College Math: Learning Communities.

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Cantone, Kathleen A. – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 2001

States that cooperative learning in developmental mathematics classes has greater success rates than do traditional remedial courses. Discusses learning communities--in which instructors work with other instructors to help students connect mathematics with other disciplines, and in which there is an increased level of peer interaction--as an…

Descriptors: Active Learning, Community Colleges, Cooperative Learning, Developmental Studies Programs