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Download full textPark, Travis D.; Santamaria, Laura A.; Keene, Barrett L.; van der Mandele, Liz – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2010
Improving comprehension skills is vital to building cognitive skills. Reading and literacy skills enable youth to gather information and create knowledge from various sources, and then to consider solutions to problems in and about their lives from both a cognitive and a creative standpoint. By implementing disciplinary reading strategies in the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Literacy, Vocational Education
Do Learning Communities Effect Academic Outcomes? Evidence from an Experiment in a Community College
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Direct linkRichburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Visher, Mary G.; Bloom, Dan – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2008
Many postsecondary institutions utilize learning communities to increase social engagement and attachment to the college community. In recent years, these communities have proliferated as part of a trend fueled by low retention and persistence rates, increasing reluctance of 4-year institutions to provide remedial education, and pressure on…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Communities of Practice, Academic Achievement
