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A Multi Case Study of Community College Discipline Faculty's Participation in a Disciplinary Literacy Professional Learning Community
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Gregory, Kristen Howell – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Many students enter college with inadequate reading, writing, and critical thinking skills to successfully navigate discipline-specific college-level coursework (Duff, 2010; Hyland, 2006; Lea & Street, 1998; Tsui, 2002). As such, college faculty, and specifically community college faculty, are challenged to meet the multiple literacy needs of…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Teacher Attitudes
The Impact of Instruction Incorporating Content Area Reading Strategies on Student Mathematical Achievement in a Community College Developmental Mathematics Course
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Rust, Amber Heller – ProQuest LLC, 2011
When a student is not successful in mathematics, teachers frequently assume the difficulty lies within the student's mathematical ability or negative disposition towards mathematics, but the difficulty may lie with the student's reading comprehension (Draper, Smith, Hall, & Siebert, 2005; Kane, Byrne, & Hater, 1974). Many…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Strategies, Mathematics Achievement, Community Colleges