The Academic Writing of Community College Remedial Students: Text and Learner Variables
This journal article discusses the performance of community college remedial writing students on a task that required them to compose an informational report from sources.
Literacy Education After High School
This article provides information on two major settings for literacy education for adults: adult basic education and community college remedial programs.
The Location of Developmental Education in Community Colleges: A Discussion of the Merits of Mainstreaming vs. Centralization
This article discusses mainstreaming and centralization, two ways in which community colleges organize developmental education.
Repetition and the Informational Writing of Developmental Students
This journal article discusses a study that investigated the effects of task repetition on the writing skills of upper level developmental reading students.
Promising Approaches for Remediation
The journal article describes CCRC’s case study research on remediation, which shows that there is more to remediation than traditional developmental education programs.