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Peer reviewedLietz, Petra – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1996
Results from 291 first-year Australian college students with learning and writing difficulties (language minorities or students from other countries) suggest a direct effect of those difficulties on performance in first-year biology. College language and learning services that address areas in which students recognize their difficulties may…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, College Students, English (Second Language)
Download full textAzcoitia, Carlos – 1989
A study investigated the impact that a structured peer tutoring program had on improving the mathematics and reading achievement scores of academically disadvantaged, handicapped, and limited English proficient students enrolled in vocational classes, and on the mathematics and reading achievement scores of their tutors. It also assessed 10…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged, High Schools
Wilkie, Carolyn; Foreman, John, Ed. – 1994
A state-wide survey of Pennsylvania colleges sought to document the developmental education programming and remedial services these institutions offer their students. A 100-item questionnaire was sent to all 189 institutions that award undergraduate degrees and certifications. Eighty institutions responded. Findings include the following: (1) most…
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Developmental Programs, Higher Education
Thonus, Terese – 1998
A discussion of communication between native English-speaking (NS) tutors and their non-native-speaker (NNS) students draws on a study conducted in the Indiana University writing center and focuses on conflicts between effectiveness in communication and effectiveness in instruction technique. Examples of tutor-student (NS-NNS) interaction are…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Communication Problems
