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Direct linkHite, Joshua A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) is recognized as a leader in Basic Writing reform for community colleges due to their Accelerated Learning Program (ALP). The features Adams et al. adapted from various programs to better support CCBC students, particularly the central features of mainstreaming and acceleration, have helped reinvent…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Acceleration (Education), Two Year College Students, Writing Instruction
Wood, Susan A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In order to better understand how to use assessment productively in the basic writing classroom, I asked the question "How do basic writers perceive the assessment process?" The research reported on in this dissertation led to the conclusion that basic writers at Dona Ana Community College perceive and value each part of the assessment…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Community Colleges, Writing Evaluation, Student Attitudes
Verbout, Mary F. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Multiple-choice tests of punctuation and usage are used throughout the United States to assess the writing skills of new community college students in order to place them in either a basic writing course or first-year composition. To determine whether using the COMPASS Writing Test (CWT) is a valid placement at a community college, student test…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Multiple Choice Tests, Student Placement, Community Colleges
Burrell, Terri Massie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The education of under-prepared college students is a topic that interested and motivated this researcher to conduct a study on learning communities and measuring change in writing apprehension and locus of control of developmental students at a community college. Higher education is generally viewed as a place for the intellectually elite.…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Educational Needs, Basic Writing, Community Colleges
Gulley, Beth Erika – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Many composition teachers use the writing conference to provide feedback to their students; however, the existing literature on the subject indicates that teachers may unintentionally harm their weaker students by using this strategy. To better understand the effect of the writing conference on developmental writing students, the researcher…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Basic Writing, Student Teachers, Researchers
Stallings, Thresa E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this case study was to describe the role of teacher knowledge in the instructional methods of a community college developmental literacy instructor and determine in what ways that knowledge may have impacted the perceptions of the student participants regarding their authority over their academic progress in the class. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Homework, Basic Writing, Group Discussion, Teacher Characteristics
