March 6, 2009
The Daraja project, founded in 1988 at Chabot College is widely recognized as one of the best opportunities for success for underrepresented students, especially African-American students, in the California community-college system. In this film, current and former Daraja students speak candidly about their educational preparation before entering Daraja and then share their personal needs [...]
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Equity, Fear, Identity, Learning Communities, Learning to Learn, Literacy, Making Visible, Metacognition, Multimedia, Reading, Student Confidence, Student Interviews, Student Voice, Video Evidence, Writing |
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March 3, 2009
Welcome to an orientation film for the Disabled Students Programs and Services (DSPS) at Chabot College. Take a walk with us and explore the experiences of five students and a counselor, and learn how DSPS helped them reach their educational goals. (FIN employee Jamie Chandler made this film while a student at Chabot [...]
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Equity, Fear, Identity, Learning Communities, Learning to Learn, Making Visible, Metacognition, Student Confidence, Student Interviews, Student Voice, Video Evidence |
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March 3, 2009
A long, long time ago, in a college about a quarter mile off Interstate 880…four students and a teacher, fueled by a SPECC grant, set out on an epic quest to ask the questions no one dared to ask about reading. Facing over 125 daunting student intake essays, 50 hours of intensive interviews, and [...]
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Developing Questions, Fear, Identity, Learning to Learn, Literacy, Making Visible, Metacognition, Reading, Student Confidence, Student Interviews, Student Voice, Video Evidence |
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February 28, 2009
Summary of Inquiry The Cerritos College inquiry project will combine two complementary collaborations to develop a deeper understanding about how developmental learners acquire the academic habits of mind needed to succeed in college. Too often, students at risk remain on the margins of the academic community and this project will investigate ways of moving them [...]
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Fear, Identity, Learning to Learn, Math, Metacognition, Pre/Post, Revised Inquiry Plans, Student Interviews, Student Voice, Surveys, Writing |
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February 27, 2009
SUMMARY In collaboration wit h the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, this project aims to address the low persistence and success rates within developmental Math across the state. Instead of the standard three- to four-semester developmental path toward Calculus, this project will create an open-entry, one-semester accelerated course that prepares students for transfer-level [...]
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Identity, Literacy, Math, Student Confidence, Student Interviews |
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