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Download full textLinda Prentice; Gideon Twum – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2021
Can a class assignment covering the reading help students do better in an introductory chemistry class for nonmajors? Two sections of the same course have been compared where one section had a reading assignment that "forced" the students to interact with the text while the other class had the typical homework, quiz assignments, and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Textbooks
Direct linkScanlon Maramante, Lori – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this Executive Position Paper project was to develop educational resources to support the teaching of nature of science topics to undergraduate students at Delaware Technical Community College. The investigation was driven by two exploratory projects and a review of the literature. The first exploratory project examined the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Principles, Two Year College Students, Textbooks
Jose L. Salas; Xinran Wang; Mary C. Tucker; Ji Y. Son – Online Learning, 2024
Students believe mathematics is best learned by memorization; however, endorsing memorization as a study strategy is associated with a decrease in learning (Schoenfeld, 1989). When the world changed with the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic, instruction transitioned to fully remote instruction where many assignments and examinations became…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Memorization, Pandemics, COVID-19
Chavan, Rajendra L.; Patankar, Pratibha S.; Mali, Nagina S. – Online Submission, 2016
School is the place where the formal education is implemented through well defined curriculum. Curriculum enlists subjects to be taught, practicals to be conducted, as well as co-curriculum & extra-curricular activities. Biology is one of the important subjects in the curriculum in junior college level. Biology subject is a study of living…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Textbooks, Two Year College Students
Brandle, Shawna M. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2018
Traditional American Government textbooks are expensive and often unpopular with students. New technologies and Open Educational Resources (OERs) open up the potential for change, but questions of quality are ever present: can OERs really help students learn better, or are they just cheaper? I developed an OER based on original sources and…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Shared Resources and Services, Electronic Publishing, Political Science
Perin, Dolores; Bork, Rachel Hare; Peverly, Stephen T.; Mason, Linda H.; Vaselewski, Megan – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
Instructors in community college developmental education programs are constantly seeking new ways to improve outcomes for their students, but, to date, there has been a shortage of empirical studies on the effectiveness of such efforts. The current study provides evidence on the potential efficacy of an approach to helping students develop an…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Reading, Remedial Instruction, Writing Instruction
