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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Remedial Education"”.
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Remedial Education: Addressing Contributing Factors
… appear to contribute to the growing increase of remedial education in higher education. Participants included teachers and administrators from feeder high schools in northeast Tennessee, local community college instructors of remedial education, and administrators. Participants were experienced …
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Essays in development economics : incumbency disadvantage, political competition, and remedial education in India
(cont.) The remedial education program hires young women from the community to provide remedial assistance to third and fourth grade children who have fallen behind their peers. The program is extremely cheap (five dollars per child per year), and is easily replicable. We find the program to be …
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The role of the microcomputer as a diagnostic, prescriptive and learning instrument in remedial education
… being sought. Current technology has presented remedial teachers with a potentially dynamic aid in the form of the microcomputer. Many of the attributes of computer-aided learning closely parallel the principles of remedial teaching and to this end it was attempted to establish the role of the …
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Educators' perception of school remedial education services rendered to pupils in the mainstream of education
Special Education encompasses a wide field. It is an expensive form of education and is often criticized for its shortcomings. One part of Special Education is remedial teaching for children with learning disabilities. In order to provide good quality services, it is necessary to evaluate what is …
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Influence of Remedial Education Policies: Experiences of Low-Income Native American Women at a Midwestern Community College
… study was to determine how policies regarding remedial education can influence the experiences of students who identify as low socioeconomic (SES) Native American women at a Midwestern community college. This study proposed to use interpretive policy analysis and phenomenological qualitative …
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Differences in Remedial Pedagogy Approaches Between Teachers and Students
… students and teachers on the best approaches to remedial education. Although much of the research in the remedial education field has used quantitative approaches to determine the impact of taking remedial classes on academic outcomes, qualitative research has been less extensively used but …
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Perceptions of the Community College of High School Counselors and Advisors
… (b) quality instruction, (c) developmental and remedial education, (d) active partnerships with secondary education, and (e) general education transfer courses. Results further demonstrated that, among various contributors to their perceptions, the views of academic leaders within the high …
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MOOC Phenomenon: Building An Effective And Sustainable Program
… environment in support of workforce development education for those who are interested in exploring different careers or to improve upon existing skill sets and development/remedial education for incoming students. Five participants from community colleges were selected to participate in this …
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Opportunity Gaps and Remediation: Can Academic Intensity in High School Level the Playing Field?
… referred to as developmental education--has come under increasing scrutiny as policymakers have focused on the racial and economic disparities evident in academic outcomes. The courses are designed to remedy the academic deficiencies of incoming freshmen, but descriptive …
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An examinations of interventions strategies for learner dropout in rural South African High Schools
… teenage pregnancy, parental involvement in the education of their children, school capitation grant and school feeding scheme programmes, remedial education, abolition of corporal punishment, extramural and co-cunicular activities, and provision of vocational guidance and counselling. The study …
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An Analysis of the Argumentative Writing Skills of Academically Underprepared College Students
… written by community college developmental (remedial) education students was analyzed. Scoring procedures for argumentation development were implemented based on a framework developed by Ferretti, Lewis, and Andrews-Weckerly (2009) and adapted by the current author to accommodate the tasks of …
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Can High School Assessments Predict Developmental Education Enrollment in New Mexico?
… students who are likely to need developmental education. The potential for early prediction (and therefore possible intervention) is less understood. This study addresses this gap by examining the connection between high school assessments and subsequent developmental courses enrollment in …
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Typical and Atypical Acquisition of Mathematics, Reading, and Writing: Cognitive Profiles in Early Development
Academic success is at the heart of educational systems. Nevertheless, underachievement in core academic domains (mathematics, reading, and writing) and Specific Learning Disorders (SLDs) (dyscalculia, dyslexia, and dysgraphia) are widely reported across the globe. Research on the cognitive …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Cost-saving Strategies on Student Outcomes
For two decades, state financing of higher education has been on the decline and the situation has exacerbated since the onset of the economic recession, where the US state systems have resorted to a substantial cut of funding for higher education. Faced with the challenges of limited resources for …
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Administration and practice of adult education in the Lagos State of Nigeria
… Lagos State Government's provisions for adult education with special reference to functional literacy, continuing and remedial education and vocational training.It was aimed at acquainting the planners and executors of adult education in the State with the magnitude of the assignment …
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Effects of Remedial Physical Education on Selected Migrant Children
… apply this knowledge to their present physical education program. In addition the writer devised a curriculum of activities for the migrant students, designed to upgrade their physical capabilities. Numerous empirical judgments were formulated in an effort to determine the relative effect of …
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Latinate Word Parts And Vocabulary:contrasts Among Three Groups Comprisingthe Community College Preparatory Reading Class
… of their language origin, enter higher education with limited knowledge of Latinate word parts and vocabulary. The results further suggest that students comprising the heterogeneously populated college preparatory reading class can profit from direct instruction in morphological …
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College and University Developmental Education: the Professional Development Needs of College and University Remedial Instructors
… six constructs applies to faculty who instruct remedial students at both four and two-year institutions. The research study used both quantitative and qualitative methods of research. A survey that included 23 items concerning college and university remedial faculty's perceptions about …
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A contextual and transdisciplinary analysis of pedagogic, operational and administrative frameworks of a Writing Centre : the case of the Durban University of Technology (DUT) Writing Centre (WrC)
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy: Public Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.