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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

Published by the College Board, WritePlacer Guide with Sample Essays, part of the ACCUPLACER (R) program.

Located at Patrick Henry Community College, the Center emphasizes active learning and cooperative learning.

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

A how-to for those who are using Camtasia.

From WNYC - News. This is a transcript with a link to the MP3 (audio) file. See adding tag for related bookmarks.

Screen capture presentation tool; many of our faculty are using Camtasia for presentations.

From YouTube, a video in which Raymond Wlodkowski makes suggestions on making your classroom more active.

Screen capture presentation tool that allows for closed captioning.

File backup software.

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).