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From the Academic Support Center of Cuesta College. Strategies for student success. For similar, see tag success.

Liz shared this in Instructional Strategies:Reflection/Meta-cognition

"The Education Commission of the States (ECS), in collaboration with Knowledge in the Public Interest (KPI), Policy Research on Preparation, Access and Remedial Education (PREPARE) at the University of Massachusetts Boston, seeks to leverage developmental education at postsecondary institutions as a critical component of state efforts to increase college attainment rates through Getting Past Go. The national initiative will help education policy leaders align state and system policy to increase the college success of the large percentage of students enrolled in postsecondary education who require remedial and developmental education."

Posted online by Dr. Norman E. Cameron, Professor of Economics and Fellow of St. John's College.

Shared in Instructional Strategies:Reflection/Meta-cognition

on the California Community Colleges Success Network.

Mentioned in Putting It All Together. Includes guidelines and resources for acceleration in developmental education.

By Doug Lederman, April 4, 2011 Inside HigherEd The author discusses a new campaign by AFT Higher Education. The effort will have members of the American Federation of Teachers (represented by more than 200,000 college and university instructors, professional staff and graduate students) more directly involved in national and campus discussions on student success in higher education.

A comprehensive evaluation of Achieving the Dream, a nationwide program designed to boost the academic success of community college students, reveals that overall trends in student outcomes at the first 26 institutions to join the project remained relatively unchanged after five years, even though the colleges adopted a wide range of strategies to improve them.

Excellent resource on e-portfolios. Faculty e-portfolios are a cornerstone of Global Skills for College Completion - a Gates Foundation funded project on improving pedagogy to increase student success (globalskillcc.org)

5 pages from a 48 page study skills booklet.

Liz shared this resource, among others, in Instructional Strategies: Reflection/Meta-cognition

On Virginia Western Community College website

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By Terrie E. Moffitt, Louise Arseneault, Daniel Belsky, Nigel Dickson, Robert J. Hancox, HonaLee Harrington,Renate Houts, Richie Poulton, Brent W. Roberts, Stephen Ross, Malcolm R. Sears, W. Murray Thomson,and Avshalom Caspi in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), 2011, vol 108 (7), pp 2639-2640. Full-text PDF is available from this page.

Contributed to the Faculty Skills and Attributes: Adaptability thread in the context of "how my courses can be flexible and yet teach the skills for success."