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Direct linkWischusen, Sheri M.; Wischusen, E. William; Pomarico, Steven M. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2011
The Biology Intensive Orientation for Students (BIOS) Program at Louisiana State University was designed to increase the success of incoming freshman biology majors in the first course in their major. The program combined content lectures and examinations for BIOL 1201-Introductory Biology for Science Majors, the first course in their major, as…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Biology, Freshman Composition, First Year Seminars
Soboleski, Penny K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The three-fold purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to examine the impact of the computer-based reading program Fast ForWord (FFW) on the reading achievement of second-grade students in an Ohio school district. The sample included 360 students (treatment group, n = 85; control group, n = 275) from four elementary buildings. FFW is an…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Investigations, Intervention, Reading Programs
Crowe, Elizabeth Coyne; Connor, Carol McDonald; Petscher, Yaacov – Journal of School Psychology, 2009
Policy changes at the federal and state level are endeavoring to improve student achievement at schools serving children from lower-SES homes. One important strategy is the focus on using evidence-based core reading curricula to provide a consistent framework for instruction across schools. However, rarely have these curricula undergone rigorous…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Achievement, Comparative Testing, Grade 3
Download full textRoss, Steve; Nunnery, John; Avis, Ashli; Borek, Tom – Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP), 2005
The purpose of this study was to compare the achievement of students in 14 Pascagoula schools and 9 Biloxi schools implementing School Renaissance (SR) to that of students in matched control schools. The achievement measures to be examined were from the 2004 administration of the Mississippi Curriculum Test (MCT) for Reading, Language Arts, and…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests, Program Effectiveness
