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Download full textSommo, Colleen; Boynton, Melissa; Collado, Herbert; Diamond, John; Gardenhire, Alissa; Ratledge, Alyssa; Rudd, Timothy; Weiss, Michael J. – MDRC, 2014
In 2010, Hillsborough Community College (HCC), a large multicampus institution in Tampa, Florida, worked with MDRC to create the Mathematics Access Performance Scholarship (MAPS) program to help academically underprepared community college students succeed in developmental math. MAPS provides an incentive for low-income students referred to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Mathematics, Scholarships, Two Year College Students
Direct linkHulleman, Chris S.; Godes, Olga; Hendricks, Bryan L.; Harackiewicz, Judith M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
We tested whether a utility value intervention (via manipulated relevance) influenced interest and performance on a task and whether this intervention had different effects depending on an individual's performance expectations or prior performance. Interest was defined as triggered situational interest (i.e., affective and emotional task…
Descriptors: Intervention, Student Interests, Performance, Relevance (Education)
Peer reviewedBeirne-Smith, Mary – Exceptional Children, 1991
Twenty primary-aged students with learning disabilities were tutored by nondisabled students in grades 3-6. Tutored students' performance on single-digit addition facts improved compared to a no-treatment control group. There were no significant differences between two tutoring procedures: a counting-on approach and a rote-memorization approach.…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computation, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedSchunk, Dale H.; Cox, Paula D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1986
An experiment investigated: (1) how verbalization of subtraction with regrouping operations influenced learning disabled students' self-efficacy and skillful performance; and (2) explored how effort-attributional feedback affected achievement behaviors. Continuous feedback led to high self-efficacy and skillful performance, and effort feedback…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Correlation, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedGraham, Steve; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1995
The effects of a revising goal to "add information" on revising behavior and writing performance were examined for 70 5th and 6th graders. Students assigned the goal made more meaning-based changes and produced improved text quality. Procedural assistance did not appreciably enhance revising behavior or text quality. (SLD)
Descriptors: Change, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Harris, Karen R.; Graham, Steve; Mason, Linda H. – American Educational Research Journal, 2006
Writing development involves changes that occur in children's strategic behavior, knowledge, and motivation. The authors examined the effectiveness of self-regulated strategy development (SRSD), a strategy instructional model designed to promote development in each of these areas. Instruction focused on planning and writing stories and persuasive…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Strategies, Writing Skills, Writing (Composition)
