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City University of New York's Accelerated Study in Associate Programs: A Comprehensive Learning Support Program Description, History, and Review of Efficacy Studies
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D. Patrick Saxon; Andi L. Thomas; Autumn B. McKelvey – Learning Assistance Review, 2024
This work examines what appears to be the most effective comprehensive learning support program ever available for underprepared college students. The Accelerated Study in Associate Programs initiative was designed and implemented at the City University of New York Community Colleges. It offers a wide range of integrated college acclimation,…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Student Adjustment
Developmental Theory: The Next Steps.
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Brothen, Thomas; Wambach, Cathrine – Learning Assistance Review, 2002
Argues that demandingness, responsiveness, and self-regulation could be used to organize, explain, and predict useful techniques for developmental education practitioners. Also contends that student self-regulation is developed in demanding and supportive environments. Stresses the need for a training initiative in developmental education.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Credit Courses, Developmental Studies Programs, Outcomes of Education
A Memory Sometimes Ignored: The History of Developmental Education.
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Arendale, David R. – Learning Assistance Review, 2002
Suggests that higher education historians often ignore or minimize the history of developmental education. Argues that this memory distortion may be an effort to avoid the discomfort of facing the history of inequity in higher education. (Contains 28 references.) (NB)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational History