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This program is offered by the Association of American Colleges & Universities, as part of its Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative, and is a contribution to the national dialogue on assessment in education.

Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment

This is the companion site to Susan Anker's Real writing (4th Edition). The site contains student resources (exercises and advice) as well as resources for writing faculty.

Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment

MyWritingLab, a product of Pearson Education, is an online learning program that includes diagnostic tests, online exercises, and an online gradebook.

Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment

MyMathLab, a product of Pearson Education, is a series of online courses that accompanies Pearson's textbooks in math and statistics.

Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment

This site offers various writing-related resources from grades 7-12, through college and for professional writers. Resources range from rules of various citation formats to proper cover letters and resumes.

Shared in Instructional Strategies: Peer Engagement

JEC uses this site as a tool for her students.

Shared in Instructional Strategies: Peer Engagement. Also mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment

Published by Capital Community College, Hartford, CT. Various resources to help students learn more about grammar and writing.

Shared in Instructional Strategies: Peer Engagement

Wellman, J.V. (2010, January) Occasional Paper No. 3 by National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)

"With all the talk about the need for more accountability, surprisingly little is known about what kind of resources an institution needs in order to produce a given level of student attainment. Jane Wellman charts this territory and discovers some surprises, such as how conclusions about cost-effectiveness change when the metric is cost-per-degree rather than the traditional cost-per-enrollment. One result is that, contrary to popular belief, community colleges are not cheap when it comes to cost-per-degree. Another important insight-again against the grain of conventional wisdom-is that simply investing more money does not appear to produce more or better outcomes. As Wellman points out, the key to productivity is intentionally targeted investments."

By Carl J. Jung (2005) in Journal of Developmental Education; 28.3 (2005): 2-11. Author's Abstract: The guiding premise of this article is that developmental education and learning assistance programs will continue to be undervalued and vulnerable as long as there is no overarching, shared theoretical framework that practitioners can (and want to) call their own. The traditional approach to addressing this theory crisis has been to import theories from outside the field. This article presents an alternative approach. Advantages and benefits of a practice-oriented approach are identified and briefly discussed. Full text by subscription. Check with your local library. This is a link to the TOC on the National Center for Developmental Education's website.

By Stanley Fish, August 1, 2008. On Hover Institution, Stanford University

This article was mentioned in Reid's Lesson for Instructional Strategies: Contextualization forum.