Desperate to achieve
Subtitle: understanding the lives, struggles, and motivations of community college students assigned to developmental classes
By: Jason VanOra
Series: AMS studies in education -- no. 11
Publisher: AMS Press, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780404616816
Subjects: Community college student development programs; Case studies; Developmental studies programs; Community college students
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-148) and index.
Table of contents: title: Developmental students in community college: the issues at hand; title: I have so many things to do I am literally going crazy: academic struggles; title: I was pregnant and there was no water and no food: trauma and hardship; title: College is giving me a chance to live : motivations and love of learning; title: We're going to get together and just practice and practice: the role of others; title: I've learned that it's okay to fail: student wisdoms; title: Implications for teaching, learning, and the academy; title: Appendix A: sample placement exam questions; title: Appendix B: methodology; title: Appendix C: demographics and remediation histories.