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Renee Bothwell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Although academic success among diverse community college students requires effective reading skills, providing support for struggling readers is becoming increasingly more difficult. The problem addressed in this quantitative study was that due to Assembly Bill 705, prohibiting colleges from offering remedial courses without data to substantiate…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Socioeconomic Status, Reading Strategies, Course Content
Ronzano, Stephen J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Metacognitive, or thinking, strategies enable people to think critically, predict outcomes, implement strategies, and thus solve problems. A total of 312 students in 10th-grade regular, pre-AP, and EL English classes responded to questions taken from the California STAR test and reported the metacognitive strategies they used in responding to the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Secondary School Students, Reading Strategies
Pagano, Paul Gregory – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Purpose. The purposes of this study were to compare the perceptions of public middle school AVID and Non-AVID teachers regarding (a) their partnership in the AVID program, (b) the effectiveness of AVID program implementation, and (c) the factors that impede or facilitate AVID program implementation. Methodology. A descriptive, ex post facto…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, College Preparation, Reading Strategies, Cooperation