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Zafar Waqar – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2024
Transparency in learning and teaching (TILT) is a framework designed to enhance student engagement, learning, and overall success. The efficacy of TILT has been demonstrated through positive data, making it a promising method for higher education institutions to implement and adapt. In addition to increasing traditional students' mastery of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Physics, Science Instruction, Laboratory Experiments
Norman, Jon – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2017
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's Math Pathways seek to improve outcomes for community college students who take remedial math courses. The Pathways include two comprehensive instructional systems--Statway® and Quantaway® and are described in this report. They are designed to support students to achieve the necessary math…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Community Colleges, Remedial Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement
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Welsh, Hilarie B. – Community College Enterprise, 2015
The author presents themes that were identified from a case study that focused on the instructional practices of an award-winning community college composition/literature teacher. The themes for this case study focus on the importance of student-centered learning which involve: (1) writing peer response strategies; (2) student engagement in using…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Writing Instruction, Literature
Wilson, Monique – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Developmental math currently poses a hurdle that many community college students are unable to overcome. Eighty percent of developmental math students do not successfully complete any college-level course within three years (Bailey, Jeong, & Cho, as cited by Strother, Van Campen & Grunow, 2013, p. 1). Despite numerous reform attempts,…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Remedial Mathematics, Community Colleges, Teaching Methods
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Vassiliou, John – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
In this study, 180 first-time-in-college (FTIC) students at Miami Dade College, Florida in need of remedial instruction in basic mathematics, reading, and sentence skills utilized the A[superscript +]dvancer[R] College Readiness Online software. Significant results were found with increased ACCUPLACER[R] scores; number of students who avoided at…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Remedial Instruction, Teaching Methods, Hispanic American Students
Robson, Jodi McGeary – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of four instructional methods--context clues, definition, elaboration technique, or word parts and word families--on the vocabulary growth and acquisition of adults enrolled in a community college developmental reading course. The study investigated whether performance in any or all of the four…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Remedial Reading, Community Colleges, Vocabulary Development