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Integrated Instruction: Perceptions Of Community College Faculty, Lisa Wheeler
Integrated Instruction: Perceptions Of Community College Faculty, Lisa Wheeler
Doctoral Dissertations
Community colleges in some states have explored delivery options to accelerate students through remediation and into credit-bearing courses, reduce attrition rates and time-to-degree, and increase retention and completion rates. Two of these options, contextualized and integrated instruction, have demonstrated clear academic advantages for students and promising fiscal advantages for institutions. However, since many of the promising innovations colleges are exploring require faculty to make the biggest adjustments, this study addressed the impact of contextualized and integrated instruction on faculty.
Literature was plentiful on the models themselves and the effect on student outcomes, but a gap existed for the impact of …