Dolores Perin

This handbook presents a wide range of research on adults who have low literacy skills. It looks at the cognitive, affective, and motivational factors underlying adult literacy; adult literacy in different countries; and the educational approaches being taken to help improve adults’ literacy skills.

This paper reports findings from a researcher-practitioner partnership that assessed the readiness for postsecondary reading and writing demands of 211 students in developmental reading and English courses in two community colleges.

This journal article reviews the evidence for contextualization, an instructional approach that connects foundational skills and college-level content.

This journal article describes two experiments conducted with developmental students that investigated the impact of a contextualized intervention focused on written summarization and other reading and writing skills.

This article reviews studies published from 2000 to 2012 on the literacy skills of underprepared postsecondary students and identifies reading and writing processes that have been overlooked in the literature.

This introduction summarizes the purpose and key findings of the four articles in a special edition of the Community College Review.

This chapter discusses instructional approaches intended to prepare initially low-skilled college entrants for the reading, writing, and mathematics skills they need to learn from the postsecondary curriculum.

This paper provides evidence on the potential efficacy of a contextualized approach in helping students develop an important academic skill, written summarization.

This article reports on a study that tracked the academic progress of a cohort of nursing aspirants over a three-year period.

This article details the qualitative case study that investigated state and institutional practices for remediation in 15 community colleges selected for region, size, and urbanicity.

This publication identifies current organizational and instructional approaches to developmental education in community colleges and recommends a process by which colleges can make institutionally appropriate decisions to improve developmental education outcomes.

This journal article details a case study on 15 community colleges across the United States and includes findings revealing important means of increasing students' academic preparedness for postsecondary study.

This paper reports on findings from a qualitative study that examined students' academic preparedness and assessment and placement policies in 15 U.S. community colleges.

This journal article discusses the performance of community college remedial writing students on a task that required them to compose an informational report from sources.

This article provides information on two major settings for literacy education for adults: adult basic education and community college remedial programs.

This nine-part series presents case material from a study of curriculum and pedagogy for integrated instruction in seven community colleges across the country.

This article discusses mainstreaming and centralization, two ways in which community colleges organize developmental education.

This journal article discusses a study that investigated the effects of task repetition on the writing skills of upper level developmental reading students.

The journal article describes CCRC's case study research on remediation, which shows that there is more to remediation than traditional developmental education programs.

This journal article argues that integrating academic and occupational education has potential as an educational reform in community colleges but needs to be systematically evaluated.

This report presents case studies of seven community colleges that used curriculum and pedagogy to integrate academic and occupational education.