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Title: PARTICIPANTS IN ADULT BASIC SKILLS CLASSES USING INTERTEXTUAL AND METACOGNITIVE SKILLS AND STRATEGIES TO AID READING COMPREHENSION AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION
Author: MacMonagle, William
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Adult education, Curriculum planning
Description: The purpose of this research was to seek evidence of awareness ofmetacognitive processes and intertextuality in the reading comprehension of students inan adult basic education class. Its purpose was to interweave several strands of researchinvest...

Title: The Effects of a College Preparatory Program on Social Capital, Student Achievement, and College Matriculation
Author: Mack, Victor
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education, Curriculum planning
Description: With an unstable economy and non-diverse populations in STEM-related majors and fields, the United States of America is faced with unprecedented challenges in meeting the growing demands of a technical society. The lack of minorities in STEM-relat...

Title: WRITING TO LEARN STATISTICS IN AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT STATISTICS COURSE
Author: Northrup, Christian
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Statistics
Description: This study investigated the use of writing in a statistics classroom to learn if writing provided a rich description of problem-solving processes of students as they solved problems. Through analysis of 329 written samples provided by students, it...