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Hoops, Leah D.; Artrip, Ashley – Learning Assistance Review, 2016
College student success courses are designed to help students develop effective self-regulating learning (SRL) skills. Little research has examined students' perceptions of SRL at course end. The purpose of this study was to examine student perceptions of "what makes an effective college student" in regards to SRL after course…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Success, Developmental Studies Programs
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Brothen, Thomas; Bazzarre, M. Elizabeth – Learning Assistance Review, 1998
Examines the effectiveness of a personalized learning assistance intervention to overcome developmental students' procrastination in a computer-based introductory psychology course taught with the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). An evaluation of the intervention suggests that it was effective in getting the procrastinating students to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Developmental Studies Programs, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Lemire, David – Learning Assistance Review, 1998
Describes psychometric issues associated with three different learning styles models (visual, auditory, and haptic), and the instruments designed to assess those models. Presents some background to the learning styles idea along with suggestions for utilizing this information with developmental students. The learning styles instruments discussed…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Style, Developmental Studies Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Thomas, Pamela V.; Higbee, Jeanne – Learning Assistance Review, 1996
Describes the results of a study that tracked college algebra students who had previously completed an Academic Assistance mathematics course that facilitated collaborative learning. Only 53% of all students who enrolled in college algebra in fall 1994 earned grades of C or higher, but 95% of students who had previously participated in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Algebra, College Mathematics, College Students
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D'Adamo-Weinstein, Lisa – Learning Assistance Review, 1996
Asserts that teaching as a political act, a construct supported by critical theorists, is appropriate for the developmental educator. Education is a means of exciting the active and critical minds of students, of breaking through the boundaries of traditional learning on college campus through authentic dialogue and the critical exploration of the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Developmental Studies Programs, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Holland, T. S. – Learning Assistance Review, 1999
Describes the Conditional Acceptance Program (CAP), an intervention program geared towards underprepared, underachieving entering college freshmen. Identifies key program components while establishing the primary theoretical basis or rationale for each, and encourages the reader to critically evaluate and reflect upon various and integrated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Developmental Studies Programs