Facilitating Student Learning Through Contextualization
Facilitating Student Learning Through Contextualization Dolores Perin February 2011 CCRC Working Paper No. 29 A WORKING PAPER IN THE CCRC ASSESSMENT OF EVIDENCE SERIES Across the first year of a major grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with supplemental funding from Lumina Foundation for Education, CCRC has gathered and synthesized a large body of research evidence regarding strategies that may improve the success of students who attend community college. Working papers in the Assessment of Evidence Series use the research literature to draw conclusions and provide evidence-based recommendations in eight major topic areas: developmental assessment, developmental acceleration, developmental mathematics pedagogy, Contextualization of basic skills instruction, online Learning , non-academic support, institutional
way to create this relationship is through contextualization, or the teaching of basic skills in the context of disciplinary topic areas. Postsecondary developmental educators have recommended that pre-college academic skills instruction be directly related to the content of college-level courses (Simpson, Hynd, Nist, & Burrell, 1997).
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