Journal of College Reading and Learning articles from March 2003

Journal of College Reading and Learning archives from March 2003

Statement from the outgoing editor.
March 22, 2003... This is my last issue as Editor of JCRL. I want to thank the individuals on the Editorial Board who have helped complete a first-rate professional publication. I also want to thank the Executive Board of CRLA for giving me the opportunity to...

Statement from the incoming editor.
March 22, 2003... With the Fall, 2003 issue, JCRL moves to Southwest Texas State University. I am honored to be named editor and am deeply appreciative of the hard work, leadership, and support of current editor David Lemire, editorial assistant Catherine Bolte,...

Position statement on rights of adult readers and learners.
March 22, 2003... The continuing public discussion on the quality of education has nearly overlooked adult readers and learners. The College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA) with a membership of over 1,000 Americans and Canadians, is well situated to...

Creating a successful learning environment for postsecondary students with learning disabilities: policy and practice.
March 22, 2003... As postsecondary enrollment increases and diversifies, colleges and universities are focusing attention on providing accessible, responsive and diverse opportunities for lifelong learning. However, creating an accessible and responsive...

College students' beliefs, strategy employment, transfer, and academic performance: an examination across three academic disciplines.
March 22, 2003... Most models of self-regulated learning (SRL) describe successful students as those who hold mature beliefs about learning, have a repertoire of cognitive and metacognitive processes, and can correctly interpret their tasks (Pressley, 2000;...

Reading in a second language: a reading problem or a language problem?
March 22, 2003... This article addresses an on-going debate about whether reading in a second language is different than reading in one's first language. The focus here centers on a student population of adult L2 readers who are literate in the native language...

Do reading skills courses help underprepared readers achieve academic success in college?
March 22, 2003... Student enrollment in colleges and universities has increased markedly during the last three decades. Between Fall 1970 and Fall 2000, enrollment in all degree-granting institutions rose from 8.5 million to about 15.1 million students....

Between the lines: reading and misreading student writers.
March 22, 2003... When Mortimer Adler published How to Read a Book (1940), I. A. Richards shot back with How to Read a Page (1942, as cited in Berthoff, 1991), challenging Adler's notion of a singularly correct way of reading any book. Richards asserts that the...

Response: significant quality mathematics instruction needed.
March 22, 2003... This commentary is in response to David Lemire's article in the Spring 2002 issue of Journal of College Reading and Learning--Math Problem Solving and Mental Discipline (Lemire, 2002). We agree with several of the premises presented in the...

Response commentary math: who needs it?
March 22, 2003... I have been given the challenging task of responding to Johnson and Coomes' (2003) reply to Lemire's (2002) commentary, "Math Problem Solving and Mental Discipline--The Myth of Transferability." I am a self-proclaimed "math type" (Lemire, p....

Response: commentary on Johnson and Coomes' "significant quality mathematics instruction needed".
March 22, 2003... Being asked to respond to Johnson and Coomes' (2003) response commentary on Lemire's (2002) article on mathematics education was, at first, a bit daunting. For one thing, commenting on another's reply feels a little like being thrown into an...

Brief report: an introduction to learning styles for developmental educators Part II: the Ego Inventory.
March 22, 2003... While there are an infinite number of individual differences among students in affective, cognitive, and psychomotor characteristics, the concern of learning style research is to identify student characteristics which are related to...