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Direct linkMoorer, Charles Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This was a mixed methods study that examined the developmental education program at an urban public Maryland community college. The data were collected from interviews with a former English Chair, a former Math Chair, and the Director of Institutional Research. Each was selected because of his and her expertise. Data were also collected from one…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Urban Education, Interviews
Download full textBond, Lloyd – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2009
Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC) is a multi-site action-research project, focused on teaching and learning in pre-collegiate mathematics and English language arts courses at 11 California community colleges. In this report, the author discusses the data gathered over the course of the SPECC project and reflects…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Language Arts, Evidence, Action Research
Golden, Charles J. – Academic Therapy, 1979
The article describes a University of South Dakota neurotherapy program, which uses increasingly sophisticated diagnostic information to provide services to brain impaired children within their home and school settings. (DLS)
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Parent Counseling, Parent Education, Program Descriptions
Dongu, Carolyn M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Describes a successful middle school mathematics program that groups students according to the lowest skill they have not mastered, irrespective of the grade the student is in. (IRT)
Descriptors: Homogeneous Grouping, Junior High Schools, Mathematics Instruction, Middle Schools
Bailey, Ralph E.; Bryant, Diana G. – 1975
This paper describes the Child Study Center (CSC) of the Pinellas County, Florida, Pupil Services Demonstration Project, an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III project. The purpose of the CSC is to provide the diagnostic, prescriptive, and consultative intervention necessary to assist referred students with serious learning problems in…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems
Salinger, Wendy – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1985
Describes the Abbott Union School and its program for traumatized and neglected adolescents. Reproduces a short novel written by one of the students. (CRH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Creative Writing, Program Descriptions, Remedial Instruction
Sherk, John K., Jr. – Int Reading Assn Conf Proc Pt 1, 1968
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Reading Centers, Reading Diagnosis, Remedial Instruction
Wiens, W.; And Others – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1980
The role of the learning assistance teacher in this model consists of three major functions: first-line diagnosis of learning difficulties, consultation with the regular classroom teacher, and direct instruction with a restricted caseload of students. (DLS)
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Foreign Countries, Learning Problems, Models
Jones, John D.; Osborne, Thomas – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1977
An educational support program model was conceived and implemented as a team effort involving academicians and student personnel administrators. The program operates 60 hours a week in the areas of counseling, English composition, mathematics and reading/study skills. Research data imply the programs enhance marginal students' opportunities for…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Higher Education, Institutional Cooperation, Program Descriptions
RMC Research Corp., Mountain View, CA. – 1976
Project Catch-Up is a reading and math laboratory project for kindergarten through sixth-grade students. It features highly qualified teachers and aides who teach in the morning only, in an attractive, well-equipped laboratory, using an eclectic approach. Staff members are free to use whatever techniques they choose and to purchase instructional…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Laboratories, Mathematics Instruction, Program Descriptions
Stone, 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
Castelda, Sharon; Wagner, Mary – 1990
The Des Moines Plan (DMP) is described, which is a comprehensive kindergarten through grade 12 program designed to improve and strengthen students' reading, writing, and mathematics skills. The program was implemented during the fall semester of the 1986-87 school year. The DMP adopted the instructional model implemented by the Chapter 1 program…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation
Kelly, Charles P. – 1979
Students in need of supplementary reading and mathematics instruction were identified, their specific needs determined, and prescriptive activities formulated. Prescriptive reading and math teachers were responsible for program implementation and coordination with classroom teachers in three elementary schools and one junior high school. Staff…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedFoy, Hjordis M. – Journal of Medical Education, 1975
Licensing authorities in Sweden have approached the problem of unequal or inadequate education of immigrating foreign medical graduates by establishing a program which includes language and law courses and a clinical apprenticeship or a 3- to 5-month course preparatory to the standard graduate training of Swedish medical school graduates. (JT)
Descriptors: Foreign Medical Graduates, Foreign Nationals, Graduate Medical Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedGerhardt, Stephen L. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 1986
Reviews literature focusing on the involvement of community college libraries in literacy programs. Examines West Hills Community College's developmental/remedial program, highlighting the gains in reading skills of students participating in the library-based program. (DMM)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Library Role, Library Services
