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Direct linkDuBrowa, Melissa – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 2011
In these austere and uncertain financial times, colleges are caught in a quandary: they need to admit a certain number of students each term in order to make budget, yet many of the students they admit are developmental in nature by virtue of their critical thinking, writing and/or math scores on their entrance exams. Creative colleges are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Critical Thinking, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
Download full textACT, Inc., 2012
Annually, ACT provides a snapshot of the college and career readiness of ACT-tested high school graduates. This report is offered as a service to inform policymakers and practitioners about selected indicators of effectiveness and how that translates into readiness. It is designed to stimulate discussion, inquiry, and action. This report is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Academic Standards
Peer reviewedFry, Edward B.; Putnam, Lillian R. – Journal of Reading, 1976
Descriptors: Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedMills, James W.; And Others – Instructional Science, 1973
The Study reported here tested an application of the Linear Programming Model at the Reading Clinic of Drew University. Results, while not conclusive, indicate that this approach yields greater gains in speed scores than a traditional approach for this population. (Author)
Descriptors: Computers, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction, Linear Programing
Rey, Victoria M.; Karstadt, Roberta – NADE Digest, 2006
Students derive more benefits from attending developmental reading courses that are an integral part of the academic curricula (Maxwell, 1997). Colleges that pair their developmental reading courses with content courses achieve the objective of integrating the developmental courses into the academic curricula. This article describes the model and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Course Content, Reading, Reading Instruction
Stefanelli, Anna Mae – 1982
A study was undertaken to analyze and compare the content of two reading courses required for all prospective secondary school teachers in each of the seven teacher training schools in New Jersey. A five-page questionnaire was sent to the director of the reading program or to a member of the reading program staff at each of the colleges. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Course Content, Higher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 11 titles deal with the following topics: a mature reader's use of consciously employed strategies to facilitate comprehension; contextual and acontextual approaches to teaching vocabulary to adult students; methods for teaching…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, College Freshmen
