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Miller, Natalie J. – Journal of Developmental & Remedial Education, 1981
Describes Joliet Junior College's Academic Skills Center, which employs an open-lab concept to provide student referral services. Examines the use of diagnostic testing to identify specific skill deficiencies and the development of 19 multi-lesson learning modules to address identified problems. Explains student record-keeping procedures and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Diagnosis, Learning Laboratories, Learning Modules
Kindle, James – 1981
The Survival Skills Center described in this report operates at Columbia College, CA, to provide individualized instruction in basic reading, writing, and math skills using a series of modules which focus on problems commonly encountered in everyday life. After discussing the need for such instruction among nontraditional students, the paper…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Daily Living Skills, Developmental Studies Programs
Lazdowski, Walter P. – 1986
In an effort to reduce attrition and save valuable educational assets, the Developmental Education Department at El Paso Community College developed two new 3-hour courses, which students can enroll in and complete at any time during the year. The two courses, College Prep Reading Development and College Prep Study Skills Development, were…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, High Risk Students, Individualized Instruction
Williams, Roger – 1976
The major part of this document consists of a collection of worksheets and assessment instruments on various mathematics skills. Behavioral objectives for students at the Dos Palos High School are indicated for each page. The topics include place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, and percent. Specific…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Bilingual Students, Competency Based Education
Truckee Meadows Community Coll., Sparks, NV. – 1982
The Truckee Meadows Community College curriculum development project was designed to enhance the success of underprepared college students aspiring to succeed in the college's occupational and general educational programs. Initial plans called for (1) the development of individualized learning and basic skills modules; (2) creation of an…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development
Download full textLinn-Benton Community Coll., Albany, OR. – 1979
A project was undertaken to develop a set of individualized instructional materials for use in helping academically disadvantaged students to acquire the vocational, study, and learning skills necessary to succeed in secondary and postsecondary programs. In order to identify the industrial vocational concepts and related study and learning skills…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Shefrin, Carol; Shafer, Dehra; Forlizzi, Lori – 2000
The Assessment Tools for Adult Education project was designed to provide training and support to staff of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) funded programs to help them use assessment tools and procedures to document the learning gains of the adult students they serve. The following candidate assessment…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Zanoni, Candido P. – 1980
Efforts of the General College of the University of Minnesota to increase student retention during the 1979-80 academic year are described. The target groups were high-risk students, especially representatives of minority groups from traditionally nonacademic populations. The college mounted a pilot education program (PEP) comprising three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, American Indians, Basic Skills
Romano, Joan L.; Garfield, Joan B. – 1980
An end-of-year evaluation of the 1979-80 University of Minnesota's General College (GC) Pilot Education Program (PEP) for academically underprepared minority group students is presented. The results show that compared to other GC students, the PEP students came to the college with weaker academic skills, and had different personal characteristics.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, American Indians, Basic Skills
Hansen, Evelyn Unes – 1980
As part of the General College of the University of Minnesota's Pilot Education Program (PEP) (1979-80) for academically underprepared minority group students, background information is presented about the development of the Chicano/Latino PEP package, the way that the Chicano/Latino team functioned; the nature, content, and teaching methods; and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Basic Skills, College Attendance
