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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Underprepared community college students"”.
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Beyond the Dream:Improving College-Readiness of Underprepared Community College Students
<p>The majority of the nation’s first-year college students are not prepared to assume postsecondary level studies. Many are diverted to developmental education programs and most never attain postsecondary credentials. Educational reform is on the national agenda and challenges community colleges …
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Investigation of the Misconceptions Related to the Concepts of Equivalence and Literal Symbols Held by Underprepared Community College Students
<p>Many students struggle to learn mathematics in K-8 grades. Research has shown that lower grade students often misconceive equivalence as an operation rather than a relation, and that students also form various misconceptions of literal symbols. Many students arrive at college seriously …
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A Mixed -Method Approach to Evaluating Learning Communities for Underprepared Community College Students: The Integrated Studies Communities at Parkland College
… cooperative approaches to learning. Many colleges and universities are tying various sorts of learning community structures for entering freshmen or for honors students, and are suggesting that the connections made, both academic and social, are rejuvenating faculty and enhancing student …
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Faith capital: a persistence study of two student learning communities at a northeastern community college
… learning communities in support of at-risk, underprepared students enrolled at the community college where the research was conducted. Towards that end, theories of social capital, social justice education, and emergent organizational strategies are aligned with practitioner perspectives in …
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The Impact of Curricular Learning Communities on Furthering the Engagement and Persistence Of Academically Underprepared Students at Community Colleges
… curricular learning communities on academically underprepared community college students to determine if participation in such programs significantly contributed to student persistence from year one to year two. The conceptual framework that informed this study was Tinto's (1993) longitudinal …