Presents sentence-combining exercises that can help basic writing students to produce correct surface-structure transformations in their writing. (HTH)

Examines the origin and development of the Learning Assistance Center at California State University-Long Beach, which offers classroom support, individualized self-paced instruction, and tutorial services. Provides a rationale for the learning assistance support system and describes programs, services, and management features. (DMM)

Seeking an explanation for the increased number of students requiring college remedial math courses, the authors surveyed the mathematics backgrounds and college math placements of entering students at a large university. Researchers concluded that students need better awareness of math requirements and that math must be taught as a lifelong…

The author reviews the changes in remedial education in Britain over the past 10 years, noting changes in scope and patterns of service provisions, and illustrating the effects on one metropolitan authority. (CL)

Presents methodology for designing and delivering computer-assisted diagnostic tests and discusses two natural applications of this methodology: for testing purposes, and for implementing adaptive computer-assisted learning sequences based on test results. (MBR)

Two experiments (one using models and diagrams, one using slides) were carried out to investigate how remedial instruction may be given to students who have difficulties in visualizing the diagrammatic representation of a three-dimensional structure after the structure has been rotated. (Author/BW)

Data were collected from 14 remedial and 208 regular private schools and 180 remedial therapists in South Africa on such topics as problems handled, staff qualifications, and multiracial practices. Among findings are that 42 percent white and three percent Black schools offer services to learning disabled children. (MC)

Examines the presuppositions of the predominant paradigms in continuing education in western industrialized countries. Suggests new lines of inquiry. (JOW)

Discusses a preparatory course for the traditional freshman chemistry course, specially designed for ill-prepared community college students. (MLH)

Presents the recommendations of the Montgomery College (Maryland) study committee on how to restructure a community college English program to accomodate the increasing number of college students with poor reading and writing skills. (DC)

This study, conducted through the Postsecondary Quick Information System (PEQIS) of the National Center for Education Statistics, was designed to provide current national estimates of the prevalence and characteristics of remedial courses and enrollments in degree-granting 2-year and 4-year postsecondary institutions that enrolled freshmen in fall…

This paper from the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is a chronological summary of the legislation and regulations adopted from 1987-1990, which govern basic skills instruction in the community colleges. The Seymour Campbell Matriculation Act of 1986 directs the Chancellor to develop a funding formula for matriculation, and…

M. A. K. Halliday's continuum of linguistic styles or modes of representing experience employs two classifications of writing styles: (1) synoptic, and (2) dynamic. The synoptic style represents the world as a world of things, of products, of structures. This style is usually associated with carefully planned, formal writing. The chief…

This report calculates the financial costs incurred by Michigan businesses and institutions of higher education when students leave high school without learning the basic skills. Five different strategies are used for determining this cost, they are: direct expenditures for remedial education by Michigan institutions of higher education and…

The enactment and early implementation of remedial education policy reform was examined in Massachusetts and Oklahoma. The study also addressed the question of why "stakes for students" is an increasingly attractive option in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education reform. In these states, as in others, the high levels of…