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Richards, William R. – 1984
Prior to 1980, instructional support services were scattered in various divisions throughout Denver Auraria Community College (DACC), with little sense of mission and coordination. In 1980, the college developed a model for a coordinated instructional support division, based on the identification of the most important instructional and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Departments, Models, Organizational Change
Piorkowski, Joan L. – 1977
The Equal Opportunity Program of the School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has, in the past, had the problem of low graduation rates. Attempts by the staff to develop better methods for retaining students have resulted in a program that offers one-to-one tutorial help in basic communication skills. Skills training that is…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Higher Education, Minority Groups
Download full textGraves, Michael F. – 1977
A tutoring program has been developed for the purpose of teaching reading to secondary school students seriously deficient in reading skills. The first section of this paper describes the highly structured instructional program that is employed. It also notes preliminary results of the tutoring, which indicate that 17 of the 25 students tested…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Peer Teaching, Program Evaluation, Reading Instruction
Maloney, John D. – 1976
The Ohlone College Reading Center had developed an integrated system of diagnostic testing procedures, individualized prescription of skill building materials, and the training of reading tutors which provides the remedial reading student with personalized instruction based on his specific skills needs. The key to this successful program is the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Individual Instruction, Peer Teaching, Reading Centers
George, John E.; Prugh, Linda S. – 1974
This paper reports on an intensive, highly-structured, one-to-one tutoring system used as a model program. The "Tutor-Student System in Beginning Reading," the basic instructional material for the model program, was developed to train tutors to say and do what the reading specialist normally says and does when teaching reading in a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Higher Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
McClain, Shirla R. – 1979
This report is a historical study of the growth and development of the Akron Community Service Center and Urban League's (ACSC & UL) educational programs. Emphasis is given to the reasons for the emergence of such programs and how a social agency's educational programs differed from public school programs. An overview of the history and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Lefevre, Carl A. – 1972
This paper describes "Reading by Patterns," a remedial tutorial program for young adults. The principal aim of instruction is to help students transform their normal fluency in speaking English into a parallel ability to read simple, printed English sentences and paragraphs. As the instruction progresses from the simple noun-verb-noun…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Programed Instructional Materials, Psycholinguistics, Reading Comprehension
Moore, C. Angelia – 1977
The first section of this paper notes the tremendous number of approaches to teaching writing, the agreement among experts that writing involves developmental stages specific to each student, and the need for writing programs that challenge individuals at their various levels of development. The paper then describes a newly revised writing course…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Descriptions, Educational Needs, Educational Theories
Devirian, Margaret Coda; And Others – 1975
A national survey of learning laboratories in institutions of higher education, conducted in 1974, is reported in this document. Questionnaires consisting of 70 items on administration, budget, other programs, facility, staffing, services, clients, hardware and software, and evaluation were sent to all college and university learning centers in…
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Financial Support, Higher Education, Learning Laboratories
Kite, Julian M. – 1991
This paper describes programs for high risk students in the St. James R-1 (rural) School District in Missouri. The participants, staff, procedures, and effectiveness are briefly discussed for each program. Programs at the elementary level include: (1) an intervention program for K-2 students identified through screening; (2) a prescription…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
Ingle, Judith K. – 1985
Since 1984, the Language Arts Lab at Irmo High School (Columbia, South Carolina) has provided: (1) remediation in reading and writing to students with low standardized test scores; and (2) assistance to other students in the areas of study skills, college entrance exam preparation, term papers, reading and reading assignments, grammar, and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, High Schools, Language Arts, Language Skills
Cellucci, Philomena M. C.; Price, Teresa P. – 1986
A project was implemented at Florence-Darlington Technical College (FDTC) in Florence, South Carolina to develop a retention plan for high-risk and probationary students. The project involved the following components: a literature review on retention strategies, visits to state-of-the-art model two-year college retention programs, studies of…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Academic Standards, Admission Criteria
