Student result comparisons were made by class size and academic college. However, it was also found that, overall, students's writing skills declined during the freshmen year and never increased beyond their original level of writing skills. ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communications Skills ED337841. Much of what has been implemented within Writing Across the Curriculum can be applied to Speaking Across the Curriculum. A study examined students' opinions of a proposed Speaking Center at Eastern Illinois University.
Findings favor the continued pursuit of the proposed Speaking Center project.
Proposes using student projects to show students how mathematics can be applied to their lives by using statistics. Students identify a topic of interest to them and their community, collect data, discuss the analyzed data in a written report, and present the reports at the local senior-citizen center.