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Direct linkBoone, Stephanie D. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2010
How do institutions and their writing faculties see basic writers? What assumptions about these writers drive writing curricula, pedagogies and assessments? How do writing programs enable or frustrate these writers? How might course design facilitate the outcomes we envision? This article argues that, in order to teach basic writers to enter…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Basic Writing, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
Download full textWeissman, Evan; Cullinan, Dan; Cerna, Oscar; Safran, Stephanie; Richman, Phoebe – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2012
The Learning Communities Demonstration is a national research project that is testing the effectiveness of learning communities in six community colleges across the United States: Merced College in California; The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) in Baltimore, Maryland; Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida; Houston…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Credits
PDF pending restorationStrehlow, Betty J. – 1996
A study was undertaken at Willmar Community College (WCC), in Minnesota, to assess the effectiveness of the developmental writing program and to identify which demographic and educational characteristics predicted final grades in college-level English courses. The study sample included all students who enrolled at WCC during the 1992-93 academic…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Studies Programs
Peer reviewedChaffee, John – Journal of Developmental Education, 1992
Describes the rationale for and outcomes of La Guardia Community College's Critical Thinking Program. Considers the relationship of critical thinking to writing and reading. Evaluates the program's impact on students' reading, writing, and speaking skills; higher-order reasoning/problem-solving abilities; and critical attitudes toward their lives…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Critical Thinking
Weglarz, Shirley G. – 2002
A survey of faculty at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) in Kansas was conducted to determine the current effectiveness and future needs of the JCCC Writing Center. Surveys were delivered to all full- and part-time instructors. The response rate was 18%, with approximately 31% of full-time faculty and 12% of part-time faculty returning…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment
Hopper, Peggy F.; And Others – 1997
Research has found evidence for the validity of remedial and developmental English courses in preparing students to pass freshman-level English courses. To determine whether similar validity could be demonstrated for remedial and developmental English courses at Tennessee's Walters State Community College, the percentage of former remedial and…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Studies Programs
Moraine Valley Community College., Palos Hills, IL. Office of Institutional Research. – 1996
A study was undertaken at Illinois' Moraine Valley Community College (MVCC) to gather information on the course taking patterns, course completion rates, and retention rates between summer 1990 and spring 1993 for students who successfully completed one of eight remedial classes. Students in the sample began in one of three levels of remedial…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Outcomes of Education
PDF pending restorationLyons, J. Doyle – 1990
Upon entry to New River Community College (NRCC), placement tests are administered to students enrolling in curricula and to students enrolling in English and mathematics classes. Based on preestablished cutoff scores on the placement tests, students are advised by counselors to take appropriate courses. In 1990, NRCC tracked students from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Brooks, Greg; Davies, Rachael; Duckett, Laura; Hutchison, Dougal; Kendall, Sally; Wilkin, Anne – 2001
The progress made by adults in dedicated mainstream basic skills provision in England and Wales and factors associated with students' progress were examined. Of the 2,135 students from 71 colleges of further education and local education authorities who took the reading pretest, 1,224 (57%) took the reading posttest. Writing scripts were received…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
