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By Gerry Everding, as part of the Washington University in St. Louis Newsroom, March 1 2006. Researchers from Washington University completed this study, saying that frequent quizzes may help students in terms of understanding and retaining information.

GSCC faculty, in the Student Context: Whole Person thread, brought in this article, which as mentioned in either ped circle of Coffee Klatch, as part of a discussion on quizzes.

"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."

Part of Phil Taylor's Web Site, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK. This is an excerpt from his book, The Fine Art of Propaganda: A Study of Father Coughlin's Speeches by The Institute for Propaganda Analysis, and published in 1939.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread.

By Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963, as posted by the African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.

Part of the curriculum used by an English instructor, included in the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization thread.

Produced by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, Division of Information Technology at LaGuardia Community College, part of The City University of new York. September 2010. Includes profiles of the student body (general and entering students), enrollment profile, and demographics about degrees earned.

Part of the Contextualization discussion, backing up the statistic that, at LaGuardia, more students need developmental math than writing.

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

on the Testing Center, York College - The City University of New York. Five scoring categories: 1. "Critical Response to the Writing Task and Text" 2."Development of Writer's Ideas": 3. Structure of the Response" 4. "Language Use: Sentences and Word Choice" 5. "Language Use: Grammar, Usage, Mechanics"

Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment as an assessment rubric used.

On YouTube. "A short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University. Posted October 12, 2007

Posted by N.H. in Instructional Strategies: Peer Engagement.

By Mike Rose. New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan (1989) Book Description:"Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient--these are the stigmas that define the educational underclass to which Mike Rose once belonged. Here, he tells of his personal journey from a Los Angeles ghetto to a major research university, bringing a vital challenge to those who must shape America's educational agenda.

Mentioned by L.H. in Developing a Pedagogy Matters Manifesto.

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.

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

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

By Andy Lapham, Faculty of the Arts, Thames Valley University, London, UK. This paper from the Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on e-Learning includes literature review and presents a cognitive analysis of tagging.

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