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Williams, Jessica; Sarchet, Thomastine; Walton, Dawn – Community College Review, 2022
Objective/Research Question: Students with disabilities, including deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students, are enrolling in college at rates higher than in the past with most of them pursuing an associate's degree. For DHH students, their reading ability is a predictor of their academic achievement in college. However, more than half of DHH…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, At Risk Students, Deafness
Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010
One of the key requirements of the Common Core State Standards for Reading is that all students must be able to comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity as they progress through school. By the time they complete the core, students must be able to read and comprehend independently and proficiently the kinds of complex texts commonly found…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Glossaries
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Worley, Jody – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2003
The purpose of this study was to explore levels of academic attainment and performance among students whose course placement test scores identified them as underprepared. It was expected that students who developed college-level reading skills (i.e., remediated) before attempting college-level work would ultimately perform at higher levels and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Persistence, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction