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Direct linkHillock, Poh Wah; Jennings, Michael; Roberts, Anthony; Scharaschkin, Victor – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2013
This article describes a mathematics support programme at the University of Queensland, targeted at first-year engineering students identified as having a high risk of failing a first-year mathematics course in calculus and linear algebra. It describes how students were identified for the programme and the main features of the programme. The…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Freshmen, Calculus, Algebra
Download full textStone, Marion E., Ed.; Jacobs, Glen, Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2008
This monograph describes Supplemental Instruction, a student assistance program designed to improve the academic success of college freshmen based on the idea that if students are not being successful in courses then perhaps colleges should change the way courses are taught. Supplemental Instruction (SI) utilizes regularly scheduled, out-of-class,…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, College Freshmen, Success, Student Improvement
Maggs, Alex; Moore, Joseph – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1977
The main aims of this project were the identification of learning difficulties in 107 Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children, using six months of direct instruction in the Distar program. (BW)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Arithmetic, Elementary School Mathematics
Briody, P. M. – 1980
The itinerant secondary remedial resource teacher service, designed to identify and help isolated country students in Queensland who are experiencing learning difficulties and to assist teachers in classrooms, program development, and resource strategy for exceptional learners, was evaluated seven months after project initiation in 1979. Data for…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Itinerant Teachers, Outreach Programs
Fowler, Clifford F. – 1981
The report examines and documents the part played by certain local and regional committees in the operation of the Priority Country Area Program (PCAP) in South-West and Central Queensland prior to 1980. Two original studies are described: one concerned with the Local Advisory Committees (LACs) in South-West Priority Country Area and the other…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Cultural Activities, Educationally Disadvantaged
