Description
In the next decade, community college English departments will expand their developmental course offerings. The students who take these developmental courses generally have higher incidence of diagnosed learnin g disabilities, bleak economic circumstances that require them to work full time, greater dependence on public transporation, and some level of frustration and confusion about being placed in a non-credit course despite graduating from high school. Using a qualitative approach, this action research study articulates the faculty behaviors, classroom environments, and faculty-student interactions that help developmental writing students succeed. The researcher interviewed successful students about what the faculty members did that helped them succeed in developmental writing classes. Then the researcher created and tested a checklist to help writing instructors conform their practices to best practices identified in published research and interviews with successful students. Instructors found the checklist useful in evaluating their own practices in relation to the current research.
Details
Title
- Faculty impact on persistence and success in developmental writing classes
Contributors
- Bixler, L. Ann (Laura Ann) (Author)
- Clark, Christopher M. (Thesis advisor)
- Rund, James (Thesis advisor)
- Young, Donna (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2012
Subjects
- Educational evaluation
- Teacher Education
- Education (Higher)
- community college
- Developmental
- English
- Instruction
- Teaching
- Writing
- Basic writing (Remedial education)
- Developmental studies programs
- Effective teaching
- English language--Study and teaching (Higher)
- Community college students--Attitudes.
- Community college students
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Note
- thesisPartial requirement for: Ed. D., Arizona State University, 2012
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 57-67)
- Field of study: Educational leadership and policy studies
Citation and reuse
Statement of Responsibility
by L. Ann Bixler