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Direct linkEsposito-Noy, Celia – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of students enrolled in a basic skills math class at a California community college and the role of the peer model in informing their college-going behaviors. There is significant interest in increasing the number of students who complete basic skills courses and make progress towards a…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Basic Skills, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
Pan, Pamela Lidan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Through this research project, I aim to address three problems in the instruction of basic skills students. First, despite the large number of students enrolled in community college basic skills programs, the success rate is low. Second, many basic skills courses are taught with drill and memorization, with little attention paid to intellectually…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Basic Skills, Literacy Education, Instructional Design
Mullen, Adrienne Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The Basic Skills Report for California Community Colleges (2007) stresses the importance of comprehensive training and development opportunities for all faculty (tenured and part-time), administrators and staff members who work with underprepared students. With such a large number of academically underprepared students entering the community…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communities of Practice, Regional Cooperation, Regional Programs
Download full textBoroch, Deborah; Fillpot, Jim; Hope, Laura; Johnstone, Robert; Mery, Pamela; Serban, Andreea; Smith, Bruce; Gabriner, Robert S. – Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group), 2007
This study was commissioned by the California Community Colleges System Office to identify effective practices in basic skills programs. The Center for Student Success (CSS), which is affiliated with the Research and Planning (RP) Group for California Community Colleges, was selected to conduct the study. There are three major components of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Staff Development, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs
Raftery, Susan – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2005
This case study describes steps for implementing innovative learning communities that build basic skills and foster self-confidence in students at the developmental level. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Case Studies, Self Esteem
Peer reviewedCook-Gumperz, Jenny – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1993
Presents the case study of an African-American woman returning to a basic skills program in an inner-city community college, examining in particular a writing conference with the task of transforming telling of an experience into writing about it. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Black Students
Anandam, Kamala; And Others – 1991
Miami-Dade Community College's (MDCC's) implementation and assessment of computer software as a part of Project SYNERGY, a multi-institutional project funded by the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation designed to seek technological solutions for helping students underprepared in reading, writing and mathematics, is described in this…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Case Studies, Community Colleges
Comings, John; Sum, Andrew; Uvin, Johan – 2000
The role of adult education in sustaining economic growth and expanding opportunity in Massachusetts was explored. The analysis focused on the new basic skills needed for a new economy, groups lacking the new basic skills, the demand for adult basic education (ABE), funding for ABE, building basic skills through adult education, ABE's costs and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Rademacher, Ida; Bear, Marshall; Conway, Maureen – 2001
Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) was begun in 1992 to provide unemployed and working poor residents of San Antonio, Texas, with employment training and job placement services. The program provides tuition subsidies and ancillary support services to low-income San Antonio residents enrolled in two-year associate's degree…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Associate Degrees, Basic Skills, Case Studies
