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Published by Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2010. This report looks at the Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE), launched fall 2006. From the report, "To date, more than 91,000 students from 197 colleges in 37 states have participated in SENSE, thereby helping to create a wealth of new and actionable data about the entering community college student experience."

A report from the Brookings Institute that the 14 billion dollar American Graduation Initiative targeting community colleges was dropped from the president's education proposal when it was folded into the health reform initiative last week. Too bad.

Published in Spectrum > Mobile Learning, Libraries, And Technologies, March 12, 2009. "MLE-Moodle is an out-of-the-box mobile Learning (mLearning) system, designed for mobile phones." With MCNC in particular, we've discussed how it might be helpful to be able to engage students/faculty/administrators in Polilogue via mobile phone in addition to computer.

By Nicoletta Stame, in journal Evaluation 10 (1): pp. 58-76, 2004. An examination of theory-based evaluations. This page contains only the abstract. The full article is available for a fee, or you may be able to obtain through your local library's document delivery services.

By Scott Jaschik, in Inside Higher Ed, Dec 3, 2009. Announces the release of a study by Community College Research Center of Columbia University Teachers College (CCRC) looking at student success in community college "gatekeeper" courses.

Leadbeater is a "management thinker" and an "authority on innovation and creativity." This site contains links to his publications (most notably We-think) and his recent work. For more on Leadbeater, see the leadbeater tag.

By San Francisco State University English department. Published by Pearson 1998.

Hawkes provides online educational products: courseware, tests, and gradebooks.

This chapter from Dr. Yu-Chung Chang's ePortfolio describes her work helping her students at Pasadena City College overcome their math anxiety.

By Amanda J. Godley, Julie Sweetland, Rebecca S. Wheeler, Angela Minnici, and Brian D. Carpenter. In Educational Researcher, vol 35 (8), 2006, pp. 30-37.

By Howard Fogel and Linnea C. Ehri. In Journal of Teacher Education, vol 57, 2006, pp 464-480. Article is available for purchase or may be available through document delivery from your college's library.

By Howard Fogel and Linnea C. Ehri. Published in Contemporary Educational Psychology, vol 25 (2), April 2000, pp 212-235. Article is available for purchase or may be available through document delivery from your college's library.

By Cathy Birkenstein and Gerald Graff. In Style, vol 42 (1), spring 2008. pp 18-21. Originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, vol 54 (30), p A40.

By Chung, C.J. In Journal of Developmental Education; 28.3 (2005): 2-11. This was one of the pre-camp reading assignments, and is available on Polilogue. Article is available for purchase or may be available through document delivery in your college's library.

By Hanni U. Taylor. Published by Peter Lang, 1989, as part of American University Studies, series XIII, Linguistics, vol 9.

From Forum Network of PBS and NPR. This forum features Rebecca Wheeler, Catherine Snow, Rachel Swords, and Ronald Ferguson discussing how to "build on students' existing knowledge of everyday English." (1 hr 16 mins).

By Rebecca Wheeler, published in Doubletake/Points of Entry, spring 2006. Looks at how to use the idea of "codeswitch" to differentiate between formal (standard) and informal English, rather than teaching students that their (informal) language is "wrong." With bibliography.

From Wikipedia, this is the term as it is used in linguistics.

By Deb Aronson. In Council Chronicle, published by the National Council of Teachers of English, Vol 19(#2), Nov 2009. pp. 18-21. Click to page 18 of this PDF for the start of the article.

NH says, "In this article Scott Warnock and others describe the high level of detail that is needed in an online syllabus and writing assignments."

by Julie Sweetland. PhD thesis from Stamford University, 2006. This page displays the abstract. The full thesis is available for purchase, or may be available through document delivery at your college's library.