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Pepper, Janelle D. – Community College Frontiers, 1978
Reports the success of the remedial/foundations courses at the University of Houston Downtown College and their incorporation into regular university structure, and describes the increasing acceptance of special student support services. Includes a bibliography. (TP)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Role, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs
Peer reviewedAarons, Howell; And Others – Community and Junior College Journal, 1976
Describes the Foundations Program at Mohegan Community College, an interdisciplinary program providing individualized instruction in English, reading, and mathematics. It is team taught and designed to be developmental and corrective as well as remedial. (DC)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Individualized Instruction
Peer reviewedChaplin, Miriam T. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 1979
Remedial education is contrary to traditional educational principles, for it operates only after a child has failed. Instead failure should be prevented by developmental, individualized instruction. Furthermore, remedial education isolates and emphasizes skill deficits and may lead to teaching for the test. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Developmental Programs, Educational Principles
Hays, Janice – 1979
Ways in which the study of discourse analysis can aid the teacher of basic writing in helping their students to express themselves fluently are explored in this paper. It is noted that remedial writers need to learn to relate abstract ideas to concrete examples and that they seem unable to supply the connections between ideas, especially those of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Connected Discourse, Developmental Programs
Download full textTexas Coll. and Univ. System, Austin. Coordinating Board. – 1970
Ten community colleges in Texas sent participants to a faculty and administrators' conference, whose purpose was to discuss all points covering basic-studies programs and to see where consensus and differences of opinion existed among the people who actually operate those programs. This transcript of the conference covers the following topics: (1)…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Conference Reports, Developmental Programs, Educational Testing
Vaughan, George B.; Puyear, Donald E. – 1972
Based on the learning theories of Benjamin S. Bloom, the program described in this report aims to help students develop basic skills for success in college work. The program, created for Virginia Highlands Community College, centers around English and mathematics learning laboratories. All students can enroll in regular college level courses, but…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Developmental Programs, Diagnostic Teaching
Sawma, Joseph Terry – 2000
The purpose of this study was to determine if the developmental studies courses and the sequential program of developmental studies courses offered at North Harris Montgomery Community College District (NHMCCD) in Texas adequately prepared students for academic success in the first college-level English and/or mathematics courses. All…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Basic Skills, College English
Sparks, June R.; Davis, Cynthia L. – 1977
This paper describes the structure and operation of an evaluation system for the developmental education program at Dalton Junior College (Georgia). All applicants for admission to the college who score below 330 on either section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test are required to take the Comparative Guidance and Placement (CGP) test to determine…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs
Sanchez, Bonnie, Comp. – 1977
The implementation of remedial education in the community college has become more urgent with the establishment of open admissions, as is demonstrated in this annotated bibliography. Types of students, their selection into remedial instruction, the experimentation in programs, methods of instruction, and indications of program effectiveness are…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Community Colleges
Broadbent, William A. – 1977
Five programs in developmental reading at Leeward Community College (Hawaii) were studied to determine their effectiveness. The programs were: (1) general reading using individualized exercises; (2) an integrated skills approach combining reading and basic English skills; (3) a curriculum designed for each student from diagnostic testing; (4) a…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Developmental Reading
Fleming, Delryn R., Ed.; And Others – 1984
Papers in this journal issue were drawn from the proceedings of the 1984 conference of the Western College Reading and Learning Association, as well as articles submitted for juried selection, and focus on reading, learning assistance, developmental education, and tutorial services at the college level. Papers are divided into sections for…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Skills, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction
Enright, Gwyn, Ed. – 1978
The articles in this collection focus on learning assistance and other components of college reading instruction. The topics of the 35 articles include the following: (1) charting a realistic course for learning assistance, (2) modern measurement technology, (3) a national survey of learning assistance evaluation, (4) students' cognitive…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Content Area Reading, Developmental Programs, Higher Education
Enright, Gwyn, Ed. – 1980
The articles in this collection focus on new sources of energy for learning at the college level. The topics of the 25 articles include the following: (1) the emerging role of the learning specialist in higher education, (2) adult learning disabilities, (3) vocabulary development for students of English as a second language, (4) the efficacy of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Developmental Programs, Dialects
