Journal of College Reading and Learning articles from September 2004

Journal of College Reading and Learning archives from September 2004

Defining developmental college readers and learners.(Editorial Comments)(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... The feature articles for this issue report findings for that population of new four-year college students who have been classified by their institutions as developmental or in need of remediation. JCRL manuscript reviewers routinely ask, who...

The relationship of self-efficacy, identity style, and stage of change with academic self-regulation.
September 22, 2004... The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between academic self-regulation, self-efficacy, and two student self-belief systems, identity style and stage of change, for 210 college students enrolled at a private research...

The effectiveness of strategic reading instruction for college developmental readers.
September 22, 2004... Two studies examined the short- and long-term effects of teaching strategic reading to first-year college students in a stand-alone course. In study one, developmental readers (N = 36) learned PLAN, a strategic reading heuristic. Significant...

The educational storytelling project: three approaches to cross-curricular learning.
September 22, 2004... Three professors explicitly examined how educational dialogue and narrative informed their students' reading and writing experiences. In three introductory courses (composition, sociology, and literature), each taught in a developmental...

Spelling abilities of university students in developmental writing classes.
September 22, 2004... Forty-four students at a mid-sized urban university were given a pseudoword spelling test to explore the relationship between their spelling ability and their placement in college writing courses. Half the students required a developmental...

The Pedagogy of Possibilities: developmental education, college-level studies, and learning communities.(Theory to Practice)
September 22, 2004... The Pedagogy of Possibilities is one in a series of monographs published by the National Learning Communities Project which brings together leaders in the field to explore critical issues in learning community theory and promote more robust...

National conferences of note.(Calendar)
September 22, 2004... September 29-October 1, 2004 National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) Annual Conference, Towson, MD http://www.nclca.org/nclcacon.htm October 13-16, 2004 College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA) 37th Annual CRLA...