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"Can You Just Move The Curtain?": Stories Of Women From The Educational Underclass At The College Door, Janet Kaplan-Bucciarelli

Educational Studies Dissertations

Although millions of adults with a high school diploma or GED need and want to further their education by attaining a postsecondary credential, the majority do not succeed. It is widely known that marginalized adult learners arrive at college academically underprepared and that they face numerous barriers to participation once they enroll. But very few studies look at adults’ life experiences, assets, and perspectives on college before they enroll—when they are still “at the college door.”

This qualitative study explores the stories of ten women (ages 29-56) in pre-college transition classes in the Northeast US, and how their familial, school, …

Exploring Shifting Moments Of Remediation: An Analysis Of Policies Of Developmental Education Policies In The City University Of New York, Charles Jordan

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

For decades the City University of New York has served as a model for public higher education in the United States. Since 1969, CUNY has attempted to construct policies that support the postsecondary ambitions of New York’s underrepresented students. The era of Open Admissions that ushered in the 1970s remains one of the greatest social experiments in the history of higher education, permitting access to the university to all local high school graduates. Through fiscal erosion and shifts in legislative policy, the open admissions period devolved into a period of stagnation and low standards over the next thirty years. By …

Building Automation And The Contextualization Of Information Technology: The Journey Of A Midwestern Community College In The U.S., Neal Grandgenett, Pam Perry, Thomas Pensabene, Karen Wegner, Robert Nirenberg, Phil Pilcher, Candi Otterpohl

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

The buildings in which people work, live, and spend their leisure time are increasingly embedded with sophisticated information technology (IT). This article describes the approach of Metropolitan Community College (MCC) in Omaha, Nebraska of the United States to provide an occupational context to some of their IT coursework by organizing IT instruction around the context of building automation systems (BAS). This contextualization allows IT students not only to study IT as a standalone discipline but also to study its integrated use within a specific occupational context. The article also describes MCC’s focused curriculum design efforts funded by the National Science …

Integrating Multiple Instructional Mediums To Teach Critical Literacy With The Adult Linguistically Diverse Learners, Kaemanje Thomas

Publications and Research

Critical reading is the apex of tertiary education and the chief focus in higher education courses as they prepare adults for the workforce. Without significant improvements in academic preparation and support, many linguistically diverse [LD] students will have higher drop out rates in their first year of college. Developmental reading instruction practices are designed to emphasize moving the first-year LD students from sub-par reading levels towards the application and development of critical reading skills, as demanded by their college courses. Many community colleges across the United States prepare assessments tests in reading and mathematics for most, if not all, newly …

Working Together To Cultivate Learning: Transcending Individual Differences And Inspiring Change, Regan A.R. Gurung

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Workshops

In his keynote address to the faculty of Parkland College, Dr. Gurung provides a new way to think about learning, as a lifelong change that takes into account all types of students who are in the process of learning, and explicitly focuses on the diverse characteristics of the students, outlines the main factors influencing traditional and lifelong learning, and offers pragmatic methods to motivate learners. This document is the slide presentation of his address.

Diversifying Your Toolkit For Learners: Evidence-Based Strategies For Supporting Success In Diverse Learners, Regan A.R. Gurung

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Workshops

This slide presentation accompanied a workshop delivered to Parkland College faculty. Using research findings from psychology, education, and related field, Dr. Garung summarized evidence-based approaches that support learning, improves instructional design (including increasing rapport and pedagogy changes), and facilitates assessment to support diverse learners.

Exploring The Impact Of The Associate Degree On Bachelor's Degree Completion For Reverse Transfer Eligible Students Using Propensity Score Matching, Justin Aaron Hull

Theses and Dissertations

Many students who enter a community college expect to transfer and earn a bachelor's degree, yet many are unable to do so largely because of inefficiencies in the transfer of earned credits. Prior research has shown that students who leave community college with an associate degree are more likely to complete bachelor's degrees. However, this has not been situated within the context of reverse transfer, which allows former community college students enrolled at four-year institutions to transfer their credits back in order to retroactively earn an associate degree. This study uses propensity score matching to compare the six-year bachelor's degree …

English Learners’ Perspectives Of Teaching Methodologies In Community College Eap Classes, Lisa Walker

Graduate Education Student Scholarship

Community colleges provide a popular pathway for many English Language Learners (ELLs). Unfortunately, many of them struggle to pass through the multiple levels of non-credit bearing developmental course sequences in order to improve their academic use of English and thrive in post-secondary work. A qualitative look at perspectives of these English Learners on methodology may provide insight to ways that teachers could modify instruction to meet the diverse needs of students within community college English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses. Findings suggest that more explicit teaching about language acquisition and the research-based methodologies that support it along with more consistent …

Semicolons And Colons (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

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Quotation Marks (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This instructional handout presents the uses of double quotation marks.

Exclamation Points (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video with downloadable slides demonstrates where and when to use exclamation points!

Parentheses, Brackets, And Ellipses (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video with downloadable slides discusses proper use of parentheses, brackets, and ellipses, with a added note on when to use "[sic]."

Semicolons (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This instructional handout defines and gives examples of colons and semicolons.

Hyphens (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This short video with downloadable slides will demonstrate proper use of hypens

Apostrophes (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video presentation with downloadable slides demonstrates the proper use of apostrophes.

Periods, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video with downloadable slides reviews the two main uses of periods in writing.

Question Marks (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This instructional handout helps determine the appropriate time to use a question mark by distinguishing direct questions from indirect questions.

Punctuation Overview (Handout), Lori Williams

Punctuation

This handout provides a brief overview of when to use various punctuation marks, including: periods, question marks, exclamation points, commas, semicolons, colons, hyphens, quotation marks, single quotation marks, apostrophes, ellipses, dashes, and brackets.

Apostrophes (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This instructional handout provides tips for how to determine when to use apostrophes.

Commas (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video with downloadable slides showcases the importance of commas, for example, the difference between "Let's eat, Grandpa!" and "Let's eat Grandpa!"

Quotation Marks (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video with downloadable slides discusses the three major functions of quotation marks and how to use them in academic writing.

Commas (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This handout provides examples showing appropriate use of commas.

Setting Up A Paper Using Microsoft Word 2013, Sue Jones, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This instructional handout provides a visual for setting up line spacing using Word 2013.

Column Graphs Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This handout with video demonstrates how to create column graphs using Microsoft Word 2013.

Table Of Contents Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This handout and video combination demonstrates how to create a table of contents using Microsoft Word 2013.

Headers Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This handout provides instructions for how to create headers using Microsoft Word 2013.

Tables Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This handout provides instruction for creating a table using Microsoft Word 2013.

Pie Charts Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This handout and video combination demonstrates how to use Word 2013 to build pie charts.

Mla In-Text Citations For Personal Or Telephone Interviews (8th Edition), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

MLA (Modern Language Association) Documentation

This handout provides guidelines for in-text citations for personal or telephone interviews papers requiring Modern Language Association (MLA) style, 8th edition.

Sample Works Cited (8th Edition Mla Documentation Rules), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

MLA (Modern Language Association) Documentation

This handout provides a sample works cited page formatted in the Modern Language Association (MLA) style, 8th edition.