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Allen, Nancy J.; DeLauro, Kimberly A.; Perry, Julia K.; Carman, Carol A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Previous research has found a positive relationship between students who had completed a sequence of developmental reading and writing courses and success in a reading-intensive college-level course. This study replicates and expands upon the previous research of Goldstein and Perin (2008) by utilizing a differently diverse sample and an…
Descriptors: Correlation, Developmental Studies Programs, Reading Skills, Literacy
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Hallam, Susan; Parsons, Samantha – Research Papers in Education, 2013
The adoption of setting in the primary school (pupils ability grouped across classes for particular subjects) emerged during the 1990s as a means to raise standards. Recent research based on 8875 children in the Millennium Cohort Study showed that 25.8% of children in Year 2 were set for literacy and mathematics and a further 11.2% of children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ability Grouping, Incidence, Elementary School Students