Pedagogy Matters

A national public policy initiative to improve developmental studies in postsecondary education.

One of several resource mentioned in Pedagogy Matters Campaign: Strategies and Resources for Action to serve as inspiration to formulate and communicate a message to deepen public understanding of developmental education.

on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

One of several resource mentioned in Pedagogy Matters Campaign: Strategies and Resources for Action to serve as inspiration to formulate and communicate a message to deepen public understanding of developmental education.

Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC). This page highlights the Digital Media & Learning Competition. Winners are making a difference in 21st century learning.

One of several resource mentioned in Pedagogy Matters Campaign: Strategies and Resources for Action to serve as inspiration to formulate and communicate a message to deepen public understanding of developmental education.

U.S. PIRG, the federation of state Public Interest Groups (PIRGs) is an advocate for the public interest.

One of several resource mentioned in Pedagogy Matters Campaign: Strategies and Resources for Action to serve as inspiration to formulate and communicate a message to deepen public understanding of developmental education.

Carrie Glaser; Shae Issaacs; Jon Merrow; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.); Learning Matters, etc. New York, NY; Learning Matters, Inc; Alexandria, VA: Distributed by PBS Home Video (2007). Documentary explores the paradoxes of the nation's 1200 community colleges.

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

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.

Transcript from video Discounted Dreams

Mentioned by L.H. in Developing a Pedagogy Matters Manifesto. She includes this quote by Kay McClenney: "If we can't find ways to more effectively educate beyond the high school level, larger numbers of our population, including especially those that have traditionally been underserved, we as a country are going to sink like a rock. This is not the right time in our history to be saying, oh, we were only kidding about educational opportunity to low-income people, students of color, first generation college students. They're the future. They are the growing majority of the American population and we can't choose to close that door."

Results from a classroom research project focused on why author Katie Hern had only a 55% pass rate in three sections of her developmental English course.

Mentioned in Putting It All Together by author and Jam participant Katie Hern.

on the California Community Colleges Success Network.

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

on movetoireland.com "The national curriculum requires all students to take an extensive series of examinations. Students must pass 6 exams to earn a Leaving Certificate at the end of high school. There are honours level, ordinary level, and foundation level exams."

Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment illustrating interesting statistics

Smartroom Learning Solutions

Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment

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

Practice Exercises for Students

CUNY Assessment Test of Writing - information for students. 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.

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

JEC uses this site as a tool for her students.

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

Online Games in different subjects (including math and English) "For each answer you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme to help end hunger."

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

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

By John C. Bean. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (1996)

Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment.