W Norton Grubb

Basic Skills Education in Community Colleges (eBook, ePUB)

Inside and Outside of Classrooms

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Nearly two-thirds of students require some form of remediation before taking college-level classes, and community colleges have become increasingly important in providing this education. Unfortunately, relatively few students complete the developmental courses required to make a transition to college-level work. Based on a three-year study of over twenty community colleges, Basic Skills Education in Community Colleges analyzes developmental education practices, exploring what goes wrong and what goes right, and provides a series of recommendations for improved practice.

Including both classroom observations and interviews with administrators, faculty, and students, this valuable book balances critique with examples of innovation. Part One explores the instructional settings of basic skills-the use of drill and practice and remedial pedagogy in math, reading, writing, and ESL, as well as innovations in colleges that show developmental education need not follow remedial pedagogy. Part Two examines institutional factors shaping basic skills and provides recommendations for improving the quality of basic skills instruction. The research-grounded observations and recommendations in Basic Skills Education in Community Colleges make this an invaluable resource for scholars, administrators, and faculty aiming to help students progress through developmental education to college-level work and beyond.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136206078
• Artikelnr.: 38446218

Autorenporträt

W. Norton Grubb is the Emeritus Professor and David Pierpont Gardner Chair in Higher Education at The Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Robert Gabriner is Professor of Educational Leadership and Director of the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program for Schools and Community Colleges at San Francisco State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Understanding the Quandary of Basic Skills: Framing the Issues in
Community Colleges
Chapter 2 Developmental Students: Their Heterogeneity, Readiness, and
Perspectives
SECTION ONE: INSIDE THE CLASSROOM
Chapter 3 Instruction in Basic Skills: The Dominance of Remedial Pedagogy
Chapter 4 Innovation in Basic Skills Instruction: The Landscape and the
Locus of Change
Chapter 5 Student Support Services: Their Possibilities and Limits
Chapter 6 Integrating Student Services with Instruction: Chaffey College's
Long Journey to Success
SECTION TWO: INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS ON CLASSROOMS
Chapter 7 Assessment and Alignment: The Dynamic Aspects of Developmental
Education
Chapter 8 Funding, Resources, and the Money Myth: Effects on Instruction
and Innovation
Chapter 9 Other Institutional Effects on Instruction and Innovation
Chapter 10 Solving the Basic Skills Dilemma: Conclusions and
Recommendations