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Download full textSalame, Issa I.; Thompson, Ashley – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
Strategic note-taking is beneficial to students in that it provides a certain way a student can learn, and it can help a student perform better in courses. Taking strategic notes is seen as an important skill that is needed in a college setting. Strategic note-taking involves active listening, processing information, and writing. It is…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Notetaking, Study Skills
Direct linkLane, Cary; Schrynemakers, Ilse; Kim, Miseon – Community College Enterprise, 2020
This follow-up study to College Readiness in Post-Remedial Academia (Schrynemakers, Lane, Beckford, & Kim, 2019) analyzed faculty's perceptions about students' academic literacies, academic standards, and grade inflation currently, as well as compared to five years ago. The study was conducted during a multi-year developmental education reform…
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Educational Change, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Akkaraju, Shylaja – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
Handwriting is a multisensory process known to enhance memory, focus, engagement, and cognition in the learner, thereby making it a valuable study skill. In an attempt to embed handwriting as a study skill in a gateway science course, I used a combination of scaffolding and individual student consultations. Scaffolding emphasized the use of…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Instruction, Study Skills, Science Instruction
Bickerstaff, Susan; Edgecombe, Nikki – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
Adult proficiency in numeracy in the United States lags that of other developed nations, and the nonselective institutions that dominate the higher education sector struggle to address the learning needs of the sizeable proportion of students who enroll in their institutions and are deemed academically underprepared in mathematics. Research on…
Descriptors: College Students, College Mathematics, Remedial Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs
Gannon, Maureen N.; Abdullahi, Abass S. – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2013
This article describes the effectiveness of open note quizzes in improving student outcomes in an introductory Human Anatomy and Physiology course. Results are discussed within the context of a teaching strategy called LETME (Link, Extract, Transform, Monitor and Extend), which was specifically developed for at risk community college students. The…
Descriptors: Tests, Community Colleges, College Science, Two Year College Students
Epstein, Irv; Godsoe, Kim; Kosinski-Collins, Melissa – Athens Journal of Education, 2015
For the past five years, the Brandeis Science Posse program has recruited and retained students from underrepresented groups in STEM disciplines. In collaboration with the Posse Foundation, we have facilitated the formation of a close-knit, mutually supportive learning community, or a "science posse" for sixty students from New York City…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, STEM Education, Student Recruitment, College School Cooperation
A DESCRIPTION IS GIVEN OF A NEW APPROACH TO EDUCATION IN THE GHETTO, WHICH INVOLVES CHILDREN FROM THE LOWEST SOCIOECONOMIC GROUP OF SOCIETY, AND WHICH DEALS WITH CHILDREN AT THEIR MOST CRITICAL AGES. CAREFULLY SELECTED METHODS FOR EACH AGE GROUP ARE EMPLOYED. THE PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO FIT THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF PRESCHOOLERS, CHILDREN BETWEEN…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Day Care, Disadvantaged
Muller, Mary C. – 1975
The primary objective of this Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I program for mentally retarded children was to improve the ability of the 450 participants to communicate effectively in either English and Spanish or in both languages. The second objective was to improve the reading and mathematics scores of these bilingual mentally retarded…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communication Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
National Italian American Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1983
The reading activities collected in this handbook were used in parent workshops organized to increase the involvement of parents of Italian descent in teaching their children reading skills. The goal of the lessons was to increase parents' activities directed toward reading skills and to familiarize parents with what their children were learning…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Home Study
