Two experiments were conducted with developmental education students to investigate the impact of a contextualized intervention focusing on written summarization and other reading and writing skills. In experiment 1 (n = 322), greater gain was found for intervention than comparison participants on three summarization measures: proportion of main…

We face a world in which a college degree increasingly dictates the likelihood of life success. At the same time, there has been an ever increasing population of students who have not been prepared adequately through their high school education to meet the rigors of college/university-level content. The present study investigated the effects of a…

One of the greatest challenges that community colleges face in their efforts to increase graduation rates is improving the success of students in their developmental, or remedial, education programs. This literature review seeks to examine research on developmental education strategies and reforms and identify the most promising approaches for…

While the topic of who is responsible for addressing the issue of developmental education is being discussed at the national level, it is also presently being discussed in the Alabama postsecondary arena, where committees and symposiums are forming to discuss this topic. While nothing has yet been resolved, it still bears some study since…

This study evaluated how comic books and graphic novels enhanced the reading comprehension of the students enrolled in the intermediate reading course at Western Pennsylvania Community College. The three research questions are: (1) How can a developmental reading course make use of comics as a learning tool? (2) What impact does reading comics…

Assumptions: In mathematics learning, one of the considerations in the graphing calculator (GC) use is to understand students' attitude toward calculators. Rationale: This presentation describes design of an assessment instrument of students' attitude toward graphing calculator. Objectives: A pilot study that assessed the effectiveness of the…

The author reviews principles of developmental programing for students with developmental delays. The stages of this approach begins with eye contact and other readiness skills and continues through instruction in cognitive, math, leisure, and independent functioning skills. (CL)

Argues that a mastery of teaching methods is insufficient as a guide to understanding the developmental learning processes they are supposed to produce; and that these processes, when they occur in a management development program, are not controlled by the educator alone. (Author)

Recently, scholars of rhetoric and composition have shown much interest in the ancient composition exercises known as "progymnasmata". This paper explains how these exercises, which provided ancient students with a transitional curriculum between grammar and rhetoric, have theoretical and practical merit for contemporary compositional…

Research suggests that student enrollment in developmental level courses at the postsecondary education level increases annually. This is occurring because underprepared and/or nontraditional students' reading, writing, or math skills are inadequate to meet the challenges of college-level work. This article focuses on self-explanations as an…

Administrators at 4-year, public institutions of higher education commonly negotiate a balance between the oft-competing goals of access and excellence. This is heightened within minority-majority campuses, such as Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), serving substantial numbers of first-generation degree seekers and low-income students.…

Technological advances in communications, transportation, and information processing have deepened and broadened connections on multiple levels, local through global, thickening the webs of interactivity that bind us to each other economically, politically, militarily, socially, culturally, environmentally, and ethically. As with most complex…

This paper describes a study which utilized Kitchener and King's (1985) Reflective Judgment model to assess levels of reflectivity in 80 undergraduate students at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, before and after taking a one-semester general studies course with an environmental focus. A curricular intervention was designed to help…

IN THE SUMMER OF 1965, A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TEAM WAS ASSEMBLED AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY TO CONSIDER THE PROBLEM OF IMPROVING INSTRUCTION IN ART APPRECIATION IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS. THE OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO PRODUCE NOT LESS THAN EIGHT CORRELATED STUDIES FOCUSED ON SOME OF THE CONCEPTUAL AND OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN FUTURE RESEARCH…

William Heard Kilpatrick, who pioneered project-based learning in the early 1900s, advocated basing schools on child-chosen projects engendering "purposeful activity." When children are allowed to choose what to explore, they become intrinsically motivated to work hard and strive for the highest quality. A fifth-grade teacher describes…