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From the Hunter College Reading/Writing Center for the CUNY/ACT Basic Skills Tests, this rubric directs those who are grading the (New York City) city-wide exam.

JEC says that faculty must attend an 8-hour training session to learn to grade these exams -- and not all pass in the first session.

By Michael Winerip in the On Education column of the New York Times, October 23 2011. The article highlights students who have attended NYC high schools but then failed their placement tests when they arrived at CUNY community colleges. The system now offers an intensive remediation program called Start in which students focus on all 3 remediation subjects (reading, writing and math) for 5 hours/day, 5 days/week, all for a cost of $75 for the semester.

Blog of the CUNY Games Network, which promotes games-based learning in the college classroom.

By Lisa W. Foderaro in the N.Y./Region section of The New York Times, March 3 2011. Dr. Gail Mellow is quoted in the article: "I embrace developmental education because it pivots lives." NOTE: The article contains some important current statistics about remedial and developmental ed needs in the CUNY system.

M.Z. posted this to the March 2011 Coffee Klatch.

By Richard Perez-Pena, Education section, New York Times, July 20 2012. This article profiles the New Community College, CUNY's newest 2-year college, set to begin classes in September 2012. The school has been developed to test several leading theories of how to make community colleges better, including stricter requirements, no remedial classes per se (but all include a remedial component), experiential and collaborative work, and much greater student support. See tag ncc for related articles.

Our August launch meeting will be held on the New Community College campus; here is more about what makes the New Community College "new."

Dr. Marisa A. Klages, Assistant Professor, Director, Outcomes Assessment, LaGuardia Community College-- CUNY

By David Glenn in the Teaching section, Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb 7, 2010. This is an article about new research from the CUNY Graduate Center that looks at "self-regulated learning." With this method, math students work with their instructors to analyze their errors, reworking problems to be sure that they understand how to solve them next time. The article is available by subscription. For the full text, check with your local library.

KS posted a PDF of the article (see her 2/12/10 Coffee Klatch posting for the link).

By Sugie Goen-Salter, in Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), v 27(2), p 81-105, 2008. Goen-Salter's program intergrates reading and writing, in a innovative new measure to reduce the need for remediation. Article abstract is available on this page. For full text, check with your local college library.

RA's choice event was a presentation of Goen-Salter's program. PA provided the cite for this article, discussing the same program.

By Marisa A. Klages and J. Elizabeth Clark, in Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), v 28 (1), p. 32-49, 2009. Authors (both GSCC faculty) look at using ePortfolio with basic writers.

Practice Exercises for Students

L.C. used with students for a lesson on revision, Week 5, Semester 3.

By Richard Kahlenberg, Innovations column, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 26 2012. Kahlenberg looks at the recent New York Times article about CUNY's New Community College (see tag ncc) with a critical eye, identifying both some positives and some potential negatives.

"...were created in 1965 at the City University of New York to assist students who have the potential to succeed in college but lack the educational foundation and economic resources necessary to pursue a degree."

A project of LaGuardia Community College's Center for Teaching and Learning. Project Quantum Leap (PQL) seeks to develop new lessons and courses that focus on problem-solving and to integrate these into the developmental math curriculum. See lagcc tag for related bookmarks.

Mentioned in Choice Events, Radical Ideas - Putting It All together: Pilot New Elementary Algebra

By LaGuardia's Center for Teaching and Learning (also cited here), this site provides tutorials as well as samples for students and faculty interested in ePortfolios. See lagcc tag for related bookmarks.

"Whether you're a student building your ePortfolio, an educator using ePortfolios for teaching and learning, or you're interested in the growing ePortfolio field, we invite you to explore the many resources available here at ePortfolio@LaGuardia. "

The center works with faculty and studies pedagogy as well as examining practice. See lagcc tag for related bookmarks.

This page links to a gallery of student ePortfolios at LaGuardia Community College. In left-hand navigation, you can select ePortfolios at varying levels.

on the Testing Center, York College - The City University of New York. Five scoring categories: 1. "Critical Response to the Writing Task and Text" 2."Development of Writer's Ideas": 3. Structure of the Response" 4. "Language Use: Sentences and Word Choice" 5. "Language Use: Grammar, Usage, Mechanics"

Produced by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, Division of Information Technology at LaGuardia Community College, part of The City University of new York. September 2010. Includes profiles of the student body (general and entering students), enrollment profile, and demographics about degrees earned.

By Gail O. Mellow and Cynthia Heelan (2008). This page is the announcement of the book from LaGuardia Community College and the text/video of Dr. Mellow's lecture for the Robert H. Atwell lecture.