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Lavonier, Nicole – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Limited research is available on the effectiveness of remedial college courses. The present study evaluated the effectiveness of two instructional approaches for developmental reading courses at a community college in the southwestern United States. The instructional approaches were traditional textbook-based instruction and strategic-reading…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges, Evaluation, Teaching Methods
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Wyre, Steven H. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
Recent research was conducted to explore how introducing metacognitive enrichment into courses containing implicit or explicit critical thinking goals would affect the students' personal epistemological maturity. At the beginning of a fall semester at a moderate sized community college in the southeastern United States, 733 students were divided…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Faculty, Maturity (Individuals), Community Colleges