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Ayesha K. Hashim; Miles Davison; Sofia Postell; Jazmin Isaacs – NWEA, 2024
The share of at-risk students has increased post pandemic requiring a response that matches the magnitude of the impact. High dosage tutoring has been one strategy to address the needs. If implemented effectively and at the proper scale, accelerated academic growth is possible. This brief reviews the collection of research on high dosage tutoring,…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Tutoring, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Moore, Claire; Lo, Lusa – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2008
An action research study was conducted using the Rainbow Dots strategy to evaluate its effectiveness on reading comprehension skills in a third-grade class with students both with and without a specific learning disability. Results of the study indicated that students' overall performances in reading comprehension have increased. Students also…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Action Research, Learning Disabilities, Inferences
Plumb, Geri; Burrow, Dee – 1986
This report describes and evaluates the Boise (Idaho) School District's operation of a Chapter 1 Project, the Elementary Structured Tutoring Program. The project provides tutoring in reading and mathematics skills to educationally deprived students in grades 2-6. Tutors are either paraprofessional adults or supervised students (grades 4-6) who…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Smith, Joan – Australian Journal of Reading, 1986
Assesses a program for the lowest achieving children in a classroom that enables them to function and make progress with their peers near the middle or upper levels of their class. Children are given 30 minutes of individualized training daily, with text reading and writing being the central elements. (NKA)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individual Instruction, Program Effectiveness, Reading Difficulties
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Thomas, Martha Wetterhall; Hardy, Samuel B., IV – Business Communication Quarterly, 2005
Since 1994, the University of South Carolina at Columbia and the Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration) have offered a joint master's degree in international business. Communication instruction was initially a stable component of the program, with a week-long course at the beginning and a…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, International Trade, Writing Workshops
Nutt, Diane, Ed.; Calderon, Denis, Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2009
Students around the globe have unique first-year experiences but struggle with many of the same challenges. This monograph focuses on their journeys and provides insights for educators interested in learning about how institutions across the globe provide supports to students dealing with first-year transition issues. Based on the successful…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Studies, Program Attitudes, College Freshmen
Baker, Octave V.; Steinaker, Norman – 1978
This description of career education activities in Ontario-Montclair School District (California), was prepared as part of a study conducted to identify evaluated, exemplary career education activities which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. (See CE 018 212 for the final…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Planning, Community Involvement