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Practice Exercises for Students

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

Web based assignment and assessment platform that extends publisher's textbook offerings.

Webinar designed to provide information on the Common Core State Standards initiative.

In R.O. Lesson 7, semester 2

Produced by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, these resources are part of a larger library of teaching resources.

MAS recommends this page -- especially the peer review and student self-assessment resources -- for helping students learn more about the re-writing process.

This site describes itself as online tutoring and on-demand student support.

DS incorporates a Smarthinking.com review along with peer-review and students' own self-assessment, as part of the review of students' drafts.

By Hunter R. Boylan, National Center for Developmental Education; published by Continuous Quality Improvement Network with the NCDE, 2002.

SB finds Boylan's "is the best book I know of that specifically addresses the developmental classroom and what works."

The Innovating Pedagogy blog is a forum for Open University to distribute their Innovating Pedagogy 2012 report (click on report for a PDF download) and also for each of the 10 innovations to be described and commented on by the larger community.

by Ronald H. Heck and Philip Hallinger in American Educational Research Journal, V. 46, No. 3 (2009) pp. 659-689. Abstract: One of a relative few longitudinal studies looking at effects of distributed leadership on school improvement and student achievement (elementary school). Findings favor distributed leadership both for "building the academic capacity of schools" and improving achievement. Available directly from publisher site (this page) or through your library's document delivery service. 2009

Essay by George Orwell on online-literature.com

Used for CAT assignment in jam on Shreds of Data (MD).

By Lisa Linn Kanae, Saneohe, HI: Tinfish, 2001(?)

Current research being conducted at the Memory Lab includes studies that pertain to education, including how frequent quizzes might improve students' retention of new materials.

By Debra Viadero in Inside School Research, an Education Week blog, posted June 10 2009. Viadero describes the poster sessions at the annual federal Institute of Education Sciences, including a poster looking at the effectiveness of frequent quizzes for improving retention among 8th grade science students. For updated information on the study, follow the roediger tag.

CCRC brief #40, published by Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University, Feb 2009. The brief, based on a longer paper, finds that developmental education is not particularly effective, and recommends for broad reforms better assessment, tracking students through early college years, and blurring the line between "developmental" and "college-level" students. The full paper is available as a PDF from this page.

LASSI is an inventory of learning and study strategies, and measures students' strengths and weaknesses in terms of strategic learning. Developed by Claire E. Weinstein, Ann C. Schulte, and David R. Palmer at the University of Texas, Austin.

Saxon, D. P., Levine-Brown, P., & Boylan, H. R., from Research in Developmental Education, 2008 .

A positive psychology model that shows students (and faculty) their strengths and encourages them to apply their unique gifts to their academic work.

Levine-Brown, P., Bonham, B.S., Saxon, D. P., & Boylan, H. R., from Research in Developmental Education, 2008.

College Board ACCUPLACER tests provide students with useful information about academic skills in math, English, and reading. Resource for students from The College Board

COMPASS is an untimed, computerized test that helps evaluate skills for placement into appropriate courses. Created by ACT.

The ASSET® Student Success System, a testing and advising program for placing students into postsecondary institutions. Created by ACT.