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Download full textVelez, Lana – Inquiry, 2012
This author organized and taught the new ENG 09/111 classes at her college, as well as authoring the course text and workbook. English 09/111 offers a unique opportunity for students who are not quite ready for freshmen composition, but more than likely do not need an entire semester of developmental English. In this article, she details the…
Descriptors: Courseware, Community Colleges, Higher Education, Two Year Colleges
Asmussen, John G.; Horn, Aaron S. – Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2014
Developmental education, also termed remedial education, refers to curricula intended to improve the academic skills and knowledge of students who are underprepared for undergraduate coursework, particularly in the areas of mathematics, reading, and writing. Many practitioners and researchers agree that developmental education should be improved,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Programs, Academic Support Services
Direct linkMarrah, Arleezah; Mills, Roxanne – Library Media Connection, 2011
This article describes the Librarianship Upgrades for Children and Youth Services (LUCY), a multifaceted multicultural continuing education program for librarians developed by the Library and Information Science Program at Old Dominion University. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funds LUCY through the Laura Bush 21st century…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Continuing Education, Young Adults, Cultural Pluralism
Long, Thomas Lawrence – Inquiry, 2009
Two national studies of Americans' changing reading habits, published by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), quantified the grounds for concerns that college and university educators have expressed in recent years based on their own anecdotal evidence from observing students. "Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Reading Habits, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills
Mircea-Pines, Walter J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation study examined the reliability and validity claims of a modified version of the Spanish Modern Language Association Foreign Language Proficiency Test for Teachers and Advanced Students administered at George Mason University (GMU). The study used the 1999 computerized GMU version that was administered to 277 test-takers via…
Descriptors: College Students, Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Test Validity
