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Narrative Discourse in the Basic Writing Class: Meeting the Challenge of Cultural Pluralism.
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DiPardo, Anne – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1990
Argues that, especially in culturally diverse classrooms, students' stories can be a rich source of information about their worlds, values, and linguistic styles. (RS)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Personal Narratives
Assessing the Effectiveness of a Community College Developmental English Course and Examining Variables Related to Course Success.
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Strehlow, Betty J. – 1996
A study was undertaken at Willmar Community College (WCC), in Minnesota, to assess the effectiveness of the developmental writing program and to identify which demographic and educational characteristics predicted final grades in college-level English courses. The study sample included all students who enrolled at WCC during the 1992-93 academic…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Studies Programs
Idiomaticity in the Basic Writing of American English: Formulas and Idioms in the Writing of Multilingual and Creole-Speaking Community College Students in Hawaii. Studies in Ethnolinguistics, Volume 2.
Sonomura, Marion Okawa – 1996
Going beyond mere grammaticality, this book examines the basic writing skills of a group of community college students in Hawaii for errors in idiomaticity, or native-like appropriateness of expression. The book suggests criteria for the classification of "phrasematic" expressions, and a convenient terminology comprising idioms,…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classification, Community Colleges, English
Assessing Assessment Programs: The Theory and Practice of Examining Reliability and Validity of a Writing Placement Test.
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Bers, Trudy H.; Smith, Kerry E. – Community College Review, 1990
Describes a study of the validity and reliability of a writing skills assessment test taken by 4,284 2-year college students in 1986-87. Assesses interrater reliability, influences of nonperformance factors (e.g., gender, native language, and form of test), predictive validity of test for future performance, and implications of findings. (DMM)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, High Risk Students, Predictive Validity
Persistence of Fall 1988 ENGL 330/335 Students through Transfer Level English (1A) over Four Academic Years (Fall 1988-Spring 1992). Research Report #267.
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Kangas, Jon; Ma, Tony – 1992
In fall 1992, a study was conducted at Evergreen Valley College (EVC) and San Jose City College (SJCC), in California, to measure the persistence rate of fall 1988 developmental English students (ENGL 330 at EVC; ENGL 335 at SJCC) through transfer level English (1A) over 4 academic years. Results of the study included the following: (1) of the 152…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Asian Americans, Basic Writing, Black Students
Persistence of Fall 1988 ENGL 321 & ENGL 322 Students through Transfer Level English (1A) over Four Academic Years (Fall 1988-Spring 1992). Research Report #268.
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Kangas, Jon; Ma, Tony – 1992
In fall 1992, a study was conducted at Evergreen Valley College (EVC) and San Jose City College (SJCC), in California, to measure the persistence rate over 4 academic years of students with no previous college experience who entered into a fundamentals of reading course (English 321) and an introduction to college reading course (English 322) in…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Asian Americans, Basic Writing, Black Students