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Beth Ann Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative research study considered three academic factors, seven student-level variables, and four success measures across ten years of academic data related to undergraduate remedial mathematics beginning with the 2009-2010 academic year and ending with the 2018-2019 academic year. Secondary data was used to determine if there was a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Curriculum Development, Developmental Studies Programs

Gebelt, Janet L.; And Others – Journal of Developmental Education, 1996
Discusses the Gateway Program at New Jersey's Rutgers University, in which departments administer their own developmental classes. Describes reasons for the program's success, including small class sizes, providing students with gradual increases in autonomy, frequent assessment and feedback, and teaching strategies that require participation.…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Higher Education, Nontraditional Education, Program Descriptions
Smith, Curtis V. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
There has been considerable debate in community colleges over the last forty years regarding the impact of increased use of part-time faculty (PTF) on student learning. It has been argued that part-time faculty fail to provide the same level of teaching quality as full-time faculty (FTF). The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Community Colleges, Statistical Analysis, School Holding Power
Boylan, Hunter R.; Bonham, Barbara S.; Tafari, Gamba Nwachi – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2005
Developmental education programs can use innovative ways to improve minority learning and persistence.
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Developmental Programs, Minority Groups, Academic Persistence
Clagett, Craig A. – 1981
An investigation was conducted at Prince George's Community College to determine Fall 1980 course passing rates within college divisions and departments; passing rates and grade distributions in courses using different modes of instruction; within-term course withdrawal rates; term-to-term retention and attrition rates; students' reasons for…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Introductory Courses
Roueche, John E.; Thompson, Carolyn – Journal of Developmental & Remedial Education, 1980
Enumerates teaching strategies designed to promote high student retention in developmental courses, which: (1) help develop effective working relationships between student and teacher; (2) assure effective classroom management; (3) promote student involvement in the learning process; and (4) help the instructor recognize his/her own professional…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Developmental Studies Programs, Postsecondary Education, School Holding Power
Perin, Dolores – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2005
This chapter identifies current organizational and instructional approaches to developmental education in community colleges and recommends a process by which colleges can make institutionally appropriate decisions to improve developmental education outcomes.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Developmental Studies Programs, College Preparation, Community Colleges
Darabi, Rachelle L. – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2006
This study investigates a basic writing course within a freshman learning Community at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). Multiple layers of data, both qualitative and quantitative, provide a thick description of what occurred overall in that classroom over the course of one semester. My findings suggest that basic writing…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Freshmen, Developmental Studies Programs, School Holding Power

Holland, T. S. – Learning Assistance Review, 1999
Describes the Conditional Acceptance Program (CAP), an intervention program geared towards underprepared, underachieving entering college freshmen. Identifies key program components while establishing the primary theoretical basis or rationale for each, and encourages the reader to critically evaluate and reflect upon various and integrated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Developmental Studies Programs
Texas Association of Junior and Community Coll. Instructional Administrators. – 1981
Reports and abstracts are presented for research conducted during 1981 on community college education in Texas. Four institutional research reports are provided first: an evaluation of the effectiveness of the developmental studies program at North Harris County College; a study of retention patterns at Amarillo College by Stanley Adelman and Kay…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Collective Bargaining