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Sanchez, Bonnie M. – Community College Frontiers, 1977
Highlights documents in the ERIC collection pertaining to remedial and developmental programs in two-year colleges. (DC)
Descriptors: Citations (References), Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Sanchez, Bonnie – Journal of Developmental & Remedial Education, 1979
Presents abstracts of three documents from the ERIC junior college collection that deal with two-year college remedial/developmental education. (DR)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Milander, Henry M.; Simmons, George A. – College and University Business, 1971
As community colleges open their doors to a wider range of students a variety of programs must be designed to develop basic skills in underachievers. (Editor/IR)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs
Download full textLundell, Dana Britt, Ed.; Higbee, Jeanne L., Ed. – 2001
In 2001, a group of 25 national and regional leaders in the field of developmental education met in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the second Meeting on Future Directions in Developmental Education. The meeting was co-sponsored by General College (GC) and the Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy (CRDEUL) at the University…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Educational Innovation, Educational Needs
Sanchez, Bonnie – Journal of Developmental & Remedial Education, 1979
Presents abstracts of three documents from the ERIC junior college collection that deal with two-year college remedial and developmental education. (DR)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedRoueche, John E. – Community and Junior College Journal, 1978
Presents the administrators of junior colleges with recommendations for the development of policies and programs which promote high levels of student persistence, good student achievement, and more responsible student behavior on the part of the increasing numbers of students with serious learning disabilities. (TP)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Compensatory Education, Developmental Programs, Educational Objectives
Green, Nancy – Community College Frontiers, 1977
Describes the "Quest for Identity" program at Central YMCA Community College (Chicago). This program strives to give disadvantaged students in their first semester of college a sense of belonging in the college environment and a higher academic self-esteem. It offers a Human Relations Workshop, remedial courses in composition, reading,…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs
Bochniarz, Robert M. – 1978
Effects of a special remedial program at Glendale Community College were investigated to determine if there was any significant difference in college academic performance and persistence between students enrolled in the Developmental Studies program and those with similar reading and math characteristics who elected to enroll in other remedial…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Developmental Studies Programs
Fishman, Florence; Dugan, Marjorie
This paper describes support programs and services at the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) designed to provide alternatives for the nontraditional student. All entering students scoring below the 20th percentile on the reading section of the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills are advised to enter a program named Project II, a block…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Roueche, John E.; Roueche, Suanne D. – 1977
Addressed in this book is the problem encountered by institutions as more students have entered colleges without adequate preparation in the basic subject areas--communications, mathematics, and science. To accommodate the diversity in the new student populations, varying instructional methods are required. Developmental education programs need…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Bibliographies, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education
Jelfo, Donald T. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the developmental education program of the Eastern Campus of Cuyahoga Community College. An evaluative model was constructed by accepting the performance standards and program guidelines that Roueche and Kirk listed in "Catching Up; Remedial Education" (1973), after their study of five successful…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs
Cohen, Edward G.; And Others – 1974
In order to determine the validity of using the Cooperative English Test (CET) for placement in remedial writing, Queensborough Community College initiated a study using the Holistic Reading Method to rate essays written by a random sample of 204 incoming freshman in fall 1973. Three regular English and three remedial English instructors were…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Community Colleges, Correlation, Developmental Programs
Charles, Richard F.; Perkins, Marthalou – 1978
In spring 1978, a survey questionnaire designed to elicit demographic information on the student population as well as subjective data to form a clear picture of the typical student and identification of student needs, was administered throughout the De Anza College extended campus operation. College administrators were particularly interested in…
Descriptors: Age, Community Colleges, Community Education, Developmental Programs
Romoser, Richard C. – 1978
As the second assessment study of developmental education programs at state-assisted higher education institutions, this 1978 study reviews reports from 27 of 57 programs receiving funds from the Ohio legislature. Reports dealing with attitudes and opinions of the programs indicated that the responses of the majority of students were strongly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. Inst. for Higher Educational Opportunity. – 1976
Three conference papers comprise the bulk of this report on understanding "new students" and their academic needs. "The Promise of Learning Through Developmental Programs", by Johnnie Ruth Clarke, deals with the effectiveness of developmental studies while shattering misconceptions surrounding the labels typically assigned these students, such as…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Conference Reports, Developmental Programs, Educational Change
