Google Books excerpt of Language, literacy, and learning in educational practice: a reader by Stierer and Maybin, see pp 45-58. This excerpt includes Vygotsky's work on proximal development. Also known as Vykotsky.
The Community College Research Center (CCRC) is part of the Insitute on Education and the Economy, Teacher's College, Columbia University. From their site: "CCRC"s mission is to conduct research on major issues affecting community colleges in the United States and to contribute to the development of practice and policy that expands access to higher education and promotes success for all students."
By the Conference on College Composition (CCCC) Committee on Assessment, November 2006 (revised March 2009). This document outlines the CCCC's position on writing assessment, noting that "given the high stakes nature of many of these assessment purposes, it is crucial that assessment practices by guided by sound principles..."
This is an Education Week Leadership Forum taking place in Chicago on April 7, 2010. Brenda has noted the takeaways: Keys to building consistent data best practices at every school; New ways to leverage data you're already collecting; Techniques to keep district and school data users focused on achievement.
Posted by dskmag on the blog Design for Learning, May 28 2011. This blog is written by Dean Groom, who has an interest in "embedding new pedagogical classroom practice to create authentic, realistic and relevant learning for today's learners." This post describes ways to make LMS (and online courses) more engaging, following a gaming/Xbox model.
By Katherine L. Hughes and Judith Scott-Clayton, published by Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, Feb 2011. From the report description: "This paper examines the extent of consensus regarding the role of developmental assessment and how it is best implemented, the validity of the most common assessments currently in use, and emerging directions in assessment policy and practice." A PDF of the full paper is available from this web page.
This is an online exercise where writers can practice creating a Works Cited page (MLA style). Books and articles are given, and there is a link to the correct version of the Works Cited page, so students can check their answers.
There is no attribution, but this is a learning object presented by Wisc-Online. Items in this digital library were "developed primarily by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System...."
Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count. Cutting Edge Series No. 1 (2011)
Guide is based on findings from Public Agenda's research into practices for engaging full-time and adjunct faculty in institutional change efforts toward increasing student success as community colleges.
Posted by the Center for Teaching & Learning, UNC Charlotte. Distilled from Classroom Assessment Techniques by Angelo & Cross, this is brief includes 10 categories with description. Also available as a PDF (link on this page).
By Jennifer Gonzalez, Students section, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February2 2012. The new project is being led by the Center for Community College Student Engagement and will analyze data from four different surveys: Community College Survey of Student Engagement, the Survey of Entering Student Engagement, the Community College Faculty Survey of Student Engagement, and the newly created Community College Institutional Survey. Reports will be produced annually for the next three years. See CCCSE tag for first year's report.
Published by the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE), 2012. This is the first of three annual reports to look at "strategies that appear to be associated with a variety of indicators of student progress and success." For more on this project, follow the tag CCCSE.
TO'C (week 4, semester 3) used this article as the source for students to practice their summarizing. At the same time, she felt this article on managing stress would be relevant to their school experience.
Center for Student Success (CSS) is part of the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (the RP group). This is a database of nearly 300 case studies.
The National center for Postsecondary Research (NCPR) at Teachers College, Columbia University, hosted this conference, September 23-24 2010. Downloads of all presentations are available from this site,as are some conference videos.