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Banker, Amanda M.; Pavlik, Philip I., Jr.; Olney, Andrew; Eglington, Luke G. – Grantee Submission, 2022
The Mobile Fact and Concept Textbook System (MoFaCTS) is an individualized online tutoring system designed to increase information comprehension and retention. It is being implemented in community college anatomy and physiology (A&P) courses for further system development. A&P was selected because it is a very challenging and highly in…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Anatomy, Physiology, Retention (Psychology)
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Banker, Amanda M.; Pavlik, Philip I., Jr.; Olney, Andrew; Eglington, Luke G. – HAPS Educator, 2022
The Mobile Fact and Concept Textbook System (MoFaCTS) is an individualized online tutoring system designed to increase information comprehension and retention. It is being implemented in community college anatomy and physiology (A&P) courses for further system development. A&P was selected because it is a very challenging and highly in…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Anatomy, Physiology, Retention (Psychology)
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Jessica Williams; Thomastine Sarchet; Dawn Walton – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2024
More U.S. community college students are enrolling without the requisite reading skills to be successful. Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students are following a similar pattern with a little less than half requiring remedial instruction when entering college. College-age readers were the first population that we studied to learn about reading and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Freshmen, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
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Craigo, Leslie; Ehri, Linnea C.; Hart, Manijeh – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2017
An experiment was conducted to investigate methods that enable college students to learn the meaning of unknown words as they read discipline-specific academic text. Forty-one college students read specific passages aloud during three sessions. Participants were randomly assigned to three vocabulary learning interventions or a control condition.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges, Control Groups
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Hosp, John L.; Hensley, Kiersten; Huddle, Sally M.; Ford, Jeremy W. – Remedial and Special Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to provide preliminary evidence of the criterion-related validity of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) for reading, mathematics, and written expression with postsecondary students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID). The participants included 41 postsecondary students with ID enrolled in a 2-year…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Validity, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Mental Retardation
Rodriguez, Astrid Sussette – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Developing literacy and language proficiency in English is essential to thrive in school and in the workforce in American society. Research on cross-linguistic influences on text-level skills is scant, especially studies investigating reading comprehension among language-minority adults. The present study investigated the effects of…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Spanish Speaking