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Linda Shidler; Kelly Payne; Jeffrey Cutchin – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Research has shown upwards of 40% of adult learners entering community college may need developmental education intervention in reading and writing skills. Of those who enroll in developmental education, a large portion will never receive college-level credit and will leave the community college. This research investigated a compressed reading and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Equal Education
White, Kari Lynn Wolf – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Effective engagement with course readings can provide a pathway to success for students in higher education. However, only about one-third of college students are completing assigned readings and among those who do, many students struggle with successful interpretation and analysis of the content (Intersegmental Committee of the Academic Senates…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Attitudes, Nontraditional Students, Reading Skills
Sylvia Chaiyeon Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Reading skills are critical for English as a Second Language (ESL) students in higher education to achieve academic success. However, effective ways to promote student success in ESL reading courses are under-researched. Identifying factors that may enhance the quality and outcomes of learning ESL reading is essential. One such factor identified…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Educational Strategies
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Liu, Yandong – Journal of Education, 2021
The goal of this study is to have a better understanding of today's general education development (GED) students so proper services and support can be provided to meet their needs. Through students enrolled in GED programs in a health science career pathway--focused city college, the study learned the students' employment status, career intention,…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Adult Students, Student Characteristics, Employment Level
Zeanissia A. Moore – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Students enroll each year into post-secondary education institutions underprepared to meet college reading demands. This lack of knowledge places students at a disadvantage as they attempt to prepare for both college and career success. The purpose of this evaluation study was to ascertain the usefulness of the Reading Plus Program (RP) Adaptive…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Functional Literacy, Reading Skills, Reading Programs
Campusano Rojas, Martha Paulina – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Student's low reading and writing proficiency in higher education has been the subject of a large body of research (e.g., Bahr, 2011; Bailey, 2010; Carlino, 2005, 2010, 2012; Flink, 2017; Jaggars, 2014 Pacello, 2014; Perin, 2011; Perin et al., 2013). The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how students in a first-year developmental…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Knowledge Level, Self Concept, Reading Skills
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Ahmed, Tanzina – Written Communication, 2021
Although community colleges are important entry points into higher education for many American students, few studies have investigated how community college students engage with different genres or develop genre knowledge. Even fewer have connected students' genre knowledge to their academic performance. The present article discusses how 104…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Writing (Composition), Literary Genres
Choi, Minkyung – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Several studies indicate that more than half of all college freshmen are not prepared to read and analyze college-level texts. The problem of college reading becomes more formidable when it comes to community college students, who often enter college with socio-linguistic factors that pose challenges to literacy learning. Historically,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Beliefs, Student Attitudes
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Suh, Emily – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
Generation 1 learners are adult-arrival immigrants who enter U.S. education through adult ESL. Verbatim speech was collected from interviews and observations of six Generation 1 learners in their first college term. This taxonomic analysis presents learners' descriptions of their college reading. Learners held complex understandings of reading,…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Immigrants
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Lane, Cary; Schrynemakers, Ilse; Kim, Miseon – Community College Enterprise, 2020
This follow-up study to College Readiness in Post-Remedial Academia (Schrynemakers, Lane, Beckford, & Kim, 2019) analyzed faculty's perceptions about students' academic literacies, academic standards, and grade inflation currently, as well as compared to five years ago. The study was conducted during a multi-year developmental education reform…
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Educational Change, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Armstrong, Sonya L.; Stahl, Norman A.; King, James R.; Dyer, James – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
The study to be discussed in the proposed session was an extensive, multi-site research project that sought to answer the following essential question: What does it mean for students to be prepared to read at a college level in career technical education (CTE) courses? The impetus for this study was a need to fully understand what it means to be…
Descriptors: Career Education, Technical Education, Community Colleges, Community College Students
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Avni, Sharon; Finn, Heather B. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
This qualitative study investigated co-requisite courses which pair a developmental course with a college-level course and offer insight into how co-requisite instructors adjusted their curriculum and pedagogy for English language learners. Specifically, it examined faculty experiences teaching a co-requisite course combining a critical thinking…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Student Needs, Community Colleges, Required Courses
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Feller, Daniel P.; Kopatich, Ryan D.; Lech, Iwona; Higgs, Karyn – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Research comparing the reading strategy use of native and second language (L2) readers has often relied on self-report measures and has, at times, been conducted without measures of reading proficiency. In the present study we used regression and Bayes' factors to explore how L2 reader status and reading proficiency relate to self-report reading…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Second Language Learning, Reading Skills, Native Language
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Schnee, Emily – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Research indicates that there has been a decline in college reading over the past decades, yet few studies have been conducted at community colleges. The aim of this exploratory study was to gain a broad view of what reading across the curriculum looks like at one urban community college from the perspectives of students and faculty. A survey was…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Content Area Reading, Urban Schools
Stryk, Diane M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Community college leaders have spent years trying to improve success rates for students in developmental mathematics (DM) courses, but with little progress. This quantitative study, using a pre-experimental static-group research design, examined if a change in a community college district's policy and practices for student placement into DM…
Descriptors: Remedial Mathematics, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Placement
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