College Board ACCUPLACER tests provide students with useful information about academic skills in math, English, and reading. Resource for students from The College Board
By Hunter Boylan, published as Working Paper 8 for the Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy, December 2004. With a national scope, the paper examines the relationship between developmental and adult education in community college settings, the nature of collaboration between the two programs, and the characteristics that foster collaboration.
Unsigned article describing cooperative learning. Includes references and links. From the Education Technology Training Center at Kennesaw State University. A "teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject."
By Rebecca S. Wheeler, Rachel Swords. This is a marketing blurb describing the text, available for sale through National Council of Teachers of English. 2006. Sample chapter and table of contents available as PDF.
Young, Vershawn Ashanti. Published in College Composition and Communication. 55.4 (2004): 693-715. The author looks at the differences between black and white language. This page from the CCC Online Archive includes an abstract, works citing, and works cited.
by David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1994. Goal structures, interaction among students, and instructional outcomes; basic elements of cooperative learning.
By George Hillocks, Jr. Published in Rhetoric Review, Vol 7, Issue 2 Spring 1989, pages 257-272. This bookmark is to the citation within the publisher's database. Article is available for purchase or may be available through document delivery in your college's library.
From the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. A Networked Improvement Community (NIC) is aimed at dramatically increasing the proportion of community college students who are mathematically prepared to succeed.
by James Paul Gee. In this book, the author considers more than thirty video games in his examination of their positive effects on learning. See gee tag for an article by this author.
From the New York Times, a debut column on math by Cornell professor Steven Strogatz features an introduction to numbers, from upsides (they're efficient) to down (they're ethereal).