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Direct linkPrince, Robert; Frith, Vera – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
In South Africa many school-leavers are underprepared for higher education, especially in academic literacies, including numeracy. It is important for higher education to identify the students most vulnerable to failure in coping with the numeracy demands of the curriculum, so that resources available for interventions can be most fairly used. To…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Foreign Countries, Numeracy, Higher Education
Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; van Mourik, Carien – Open Learning, 2016
We report on a case study of high Japanese student failure rates in an online MBA programme. Drawing on interviews, and reviews of exam and assignment scripts we frame the problems faced by these students in terms of a "language as social practice" approach and highlight the students' failure to understand the specific language games…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Business Administration Education, Distance Education, Case Studies
Download full textNykiel-Herbert, Barbara – Multicultural Education, 2010
To learn productively and experience academic success, students need access to curricula and instructional approaches that are "culturally relevant" and "culturally responsive". Culturally relevant/responsive pedagogy uses "cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes" and thus "empowers students…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Failure, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Schneider, Elke; Evers, Tsila – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
In U.S. public schools, the population of nonnative speakers of English who are at risk for failing language requirements is growing. This article presents multisensory structured language (MSL) teaching strategies to remediate these students' difficulties in reading, writing, and speaking English. These strategies are underscored by recent…
Descriptors: Intervention, Required Courses, Second Language Learning, Language Skills
What Works Clearinghouse, 2009
"Reading Recovery"[R] is a short-term tutoring intervention designed to serve the lowest-achieving (bottom 20%) first-grade students. The goals of "Reading Recovery"[R] include: promoting literacy skills; reducing the number of first-grade students who are struggling to read; and preventing long-term reading difficulties. The…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Reading Failure, Second Language Learning
Solari, Emily J.; Gerber, Michael M. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2008
This study investigated the effects of three instructional conditions on precursors to successful reading for Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELL). The study was conducted using a randomized, alternate treatment control group design specifically targeting phonological awareness (PA) listening comprehension (LC), and decoding in a…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Listening Comprehension, Speech Communication, Intervention
Peer reviewedAlanis, Iliana; Munter, Judith; Tinajero, Josefina Villamil – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2003
Describes student outcomes following the first year of implementation of an early reading intervention project designed to improve the first language literacy in first grade English language learners (ELLs). Results indicate steady improvement in reading levels and support providing ELLs with interventions that use an intensive, systematic,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Grade 1, Intervention
Grebennikov, Leonid; Skaines, Ivan – Journal of Institutional Research, 2008
Many studies have acknowledged a shift from elite to mass participation in Australian higher education over the last decade. As the diversity of the student intake rises there is a growing interest in the factors predicting their success or failure. This article identifies a set of variables predicting University of Western Sydney (UWS) student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Students, Profiles, Educational Change
