Reading Effectively Across the Disciplines (READ): A Strategy to Improve Student Success

Authors

Juanita But, CUNY New York City College of TechnologyFollow
Pamela Brown, New York City College of TechnologyFollow
Davida Smyth, Mercy College - Main CampusFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

This paper describes the structure and activities of READ (Reading Effectively Across the Disciplines), a pilot initiative to improve students’ critical reading skills, disciplinary literacy and academic success. READ employs a multimodal design that consists of faculty training in disciplinary literacy instruction and curricular enhancement, development and implementation of active reading assignments and assessments, peer-led team learning, and the dissemination of discipline-specific teaching and learning resources on an Open Lab site to provide an interactive teaching and learning environment for students and faculty. Empirical evidence of the initial effectiveness of the pilot in three gateway courses in Biology, Electromechanical Engineering Technology, and Marketing showed improvement in student pass rates after implementation of reading strategies and instructional approaches that guide students through the reading process

Comments

This article was originally published in InSight: A Journal of the Faculty Center for Innovation, available at http://insightjournal.park.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Volume-12-FINAL.pdf#page=30. This article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0) License.