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Direct linkSherry Rocchio – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Anywhere from 40 to 68% of first-year students, over 1.7 million, enroll in at least one or more remedial or developmental course for reading, writing, or mathematics before being able to continue into the mainstream of college coursework (Barnett, 2018; Complete College America, 2016; Logue, 2018 WV HEPC Academic Readiness Report, 2019). An…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs, Required Courses, State Legislation
Download full textGanga, Elizabeth; Mazzariello, Amy – Education Commission of the States, 2018
In an effort to make math courses more relevant and improve success rates in college math, various organizations and colleges developed a new model of math education that has come to be called "math pathways." Math pathways enable students to take different paths through the math curriculum, depending on their course of study. With math…
Descriptors: College Students, College Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement, Relevance (Education)
Peer reviewedCloyd, Melissa – Multicultural Education, 2017
Stakeholders have long been concerned about high school drop-out rates and associated achievement gaps between groups, specifically racial, of high school students. While significant improvements have been made to these drop-out rates at the national level, the largest group of drop-out students continues to be those of Hispanic heritage. Research…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Service Learning, At Risk Students, Dropout Rate
Hubwieser, Peter – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2012
In 2004 the German state of Bavaria introduced a new compulsory subject of computer science (CS) in its grammar schools ("Gymnasium"). The subject is based on a comprehensive teaching concept that was developed by the author and his colleagues during the years 1995-2000. It comprises mandatory courses in grades 6/7 for all students of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elective Courses, Secondary Schools, Computer Science Education
Daniel, Vivian Summerour – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this within-group experimental study was to find out to what extent ninth-grade students improved their science performance beyond their middle school science performance at one Georgia high school utilizing a freshman academy model. Freshman academies have been recognized as a useful tool for increasing academic performance among…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change
Henriques, David I. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of learning communities for underprepared first-year students. The topic was examined by synthesizing data collected on a cohort of first-year college students participating in a "developmental" (special admittance) program. A quasi-experimental design evaluated the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, College Freshmen, Developmental Programs, Quasiexperimental Design
