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Accelerating the Integrated Instruction of Developmental Reading and Writing at Chabot College. CCRC Working Paper No. 71
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Edgecombe, Nikki; Jaggars, Shanna Smith; Xu, Di; Barragan, Melissa – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2014
This paper uses qualitative and quantitative data to compare the outcomes of students at Chabot College who participated in an accelerated, one-semester developmental English course and their peers who participated in a two-semester sequence. The sample included first-time students who entered college between summer 1999 and fall 2010; students…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, English Instruction, College Students, Program Effectiveness
An Organizational Case Study: The Impact of an Initiation, Implementation, and Institutionalization of a Curricular Change
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Cavanagh, John M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Successful change in schools is planned, expected and managed with the objective focused on benefiting the students, not just converting the staff. This investigation is a case study of a public school district that opted to implement curricular change following an examination of the district's performance toward adequate yearly progress. This…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Case Studies, Public Schools
Evaluating Institutional Efforts to Streamline Postsecondary Remediation: The Causal Effects of the Tennessee Developmental Course Redesign Initiative on Early Student Academic Success. An NCPR Working Paper
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Boatman, Angela – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2012
Exploiting a statewide cutoff point on the placement examination used to assign students to remedial courses in Tennessee, this study employs a regression discontinuity research design to provide causal estimates of the effects on student outcomes of recently redesigned remedial courses at three Tennessee colleges. Moreover, using data on student…
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Academic Achievement, Remedial Instruction, Teaching Methods
A Five-Year Study of the First Edition of the Core-Plus Mathematics Curriculum
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Schoen, Harold, Ed.; Ziebarth, Steven W., Ed.; Hirsch, Christian R., Ed.; BrckaLorenz, Allison, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
The study reported in this volume adds to the growing body of evaluation studies that focus on the use of NSF-funded Standards-based high school mathematics curricula. Most previous evaluations have studied the impact of field-test versions of a curriculum. Since these innovative curricula were so new at the time of many of these studies, students…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, High School Students, Teacher Behavior, School Surveys
Geometric Knowledge of Middle School Students in a Reform-based Mathematics Curriculum.
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Carroll, William M. – School Science and Mathematics, 1998
Presents the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project's (UCMSP) Every Day Mathematics Program as one current reform-based elementary curriculum incorporating geometry throughout the K-6 curriculum, with an emphasis on hands-on and problem-solving activities. Measures the longitudinal effects of such an approach. (Author/CCM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Geometry, Knowledge Level
Situational Dialogues in a Community College: English as a Second Language Curriculum
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Klinghoffer, Curtis L. – Online Submission, 2008
A tuition-free, vocational, English as a second language (ESL) program offered at a large community college suffers from high attrition as well as student dissatisfaction with curriculum. The purpose of this quasi-experimental, longitudinal study was to assess the effectiveness of a specific ESL curriculum supplement as an intervention to…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention, Standardized Tests