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…

Instructors in community college developmental education programs are constantly seeking new ways to improve outcomes for their students, but, to date, there has been a shortage of empirical studies on the effectiveness of such efforts. The current study provides evidence on the potential efficacy of an approach to helping students develop an…

Attitude toward reading has long proven to be of importance in learning. This study designed a survey instrument for college teachers to gage future teachers, college students' attitudes toward the reading of textbooks. College students (n = 64) responded to two instruments, the newly created survey called the College Textbook Reading Attitude…

This study, conducted at a community college in mid-Missouri, compared the reading ability of students with the readability of the textbooks (aside from technical books) used in their classes. There were a total of 17 textbook/class comparisons. The reading level of students was determined by the Nelson-Denny Reading Test, revised edition, and…

This study was designed to assess the readability levels of ten personal health textbooks written for college health education courses, and to compare the readability levels with the reading levels of students at one university. Findings are discussed.(MT)

TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION AS AN ADJUNCT TO MORE TRADITIONAL METHODS OF COLLEGE TEACHING, THE EXPERIMENTORS IN THIS STUDY DEVISED METHODS OF TESTING RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING MACHINES, WORKBOOKS, SELF-PACED AND IMPOSED SCHEDULES, TRADITIONAL TEXTBOOKS AND SELECTED READINGS. THEY ALSO EXAMINED THE EFFECT OF…