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Download full textEarle, Steven – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2018
Field courses are a critical component of many post-secondary programs in British Columbia and an important option in many others. They are widely recognized for their pedagogical value, mostly because it has been found that students generally achieve more high-level learning, and they retain more of what they learn, in a field-course setting than…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Field Instruction, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Coordination
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Direct linkMcQuarrie, Lynn; Parrila, Rauno – American Annals of the Deaf, 2014
Cumulating evidence suggests that the establishment of high-quality phonological representations is the "cognitive precursor" that facilitates the acquisition of language (spoken, signed, and written). The authors present two studies that contrast the nature of bilingual profoundly deaf children's phonological representations derived…
Descriptors: Phonology, Deafness, Sign Language, Bilingualism
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1997
The Magazine section of the Proceedings contains the following five papers: "The Role of Barriers to Entry in the Success or Failure of New Magazines: An Exploratory Study" (Kathryn E. Segnar and Fiona A.E. McQuarrie); "An American Title Abroad: A Cross-Cultural Study of One Popular Magazine in the U.S. and the U.K." (Carolyn…
Descriptors: Censorship, Cross Cultural Studies, Freedom of Speech, Journalism
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1991
The Business of Mass Media section of the proceedings contains the following 13 papers: "Management in Transition at the Rocky Mountain News" (Jim Redmond); "The Rise and Fall of the Distress Sale: A Strange Case of Comparative Broadcast Policy-Making" (Alan G. Stavitsky); "Journalists' Assessment of Group Ownership and…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Cable Television, Decision Making, Economic Factors
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1991
The Society and Mass Media section of the proceedings contains the following 16 papers: "The Relationship of Mass Media and Interpersonal Channels to Societal and Personal Risk Judgments" (Cynthia-Lou Coleman); "Freedom of Expression: How Much Will the Public Tolerate?" (Daniel Riffe and Charles F. Aust); "Economic…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Civil Liberties, Crisis Management, Ethics
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1991
Section A of the Miscellaneous Studies section of the proceedings contains the following 17 papers: "Readability Reconsidered: A Study of Reader Reactions to Differences in Fog Indexes" (Katherine C. McAdams); "Country and Nostalgia: Space and Time in Magazine Journalism" (Allen W. Palmer); "Images and Descriptions: A…
Descriptors: Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Freedom of Speech, Higher Education, Homosexuality
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1993
The Newspapers section of this collection of conference presentations contains the following 24 papers: "Dropping the Paper: The Role of Women in Local Daily Subscription Cancellations" (Melinda D. Hawley); "The Effects of the 1990-1992 Recession in the Real Estate Industry in News Coverage in Real Estate Sections at Five Major U.S.…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Developing Nations
McQuarrie, Fiona A. E. – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2023
Stranded credit is credit that students have earned at a postsecondary institution, but cannot use or transfer because they have unpaid debts at the institution. Institutions will usually not issue official transcripts to students with debt, which results in the student being unable to formally document the credits they have acquired. This can…
Descriptors: College Credits, Transfer Policy, College Transfer Students, Foreign Countries
McQuarrie, Fiona – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2020
Increased student mobility within the British Columbia (BC) Transfer System (BCTS) means that students can easily enter and exit postsecondary studies. However, a significant amount of time may elapse between when a student acquires credits and when they wish to use, re-use or transfer those credits. This has led to BCTS member institutions facing…
Descriptors: Transfer Policy, College Credits, Foreign Countries, College Transfer Students
McQuarrie, Fiona A. E. – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2022
Reverse transfer has been part of the United States post-secondary landscape for more than a decade, in the form of statewide, system-wide, regional, and institutional transfer agreements. Reverse transfer agreements, as structured in the US, allow a college student in an associate degree program who transfers to a university before completing the…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, College Credits, Educational Attainment, Associate Degrees
McQuarrie, Fiona – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2019
The number of non-native English speakers enrolling in British Columbia's (BC's) post-secondary system has likely increased in recent decades. This has led to concerns about whether such students have adequate English-language proficiency for academic success. Since it is impossible to accurately identify non-native English speakers in BC Transfer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Academic Standards
McQuarrie, Fiona – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2019
Flexible pre-major agreements (FPMs) have been a feature of the British Columbia (BC) Transfer System since the early 2000s. A flexible pre-major is a discipline-specific transfer agreement whose content and structure is developed by an articulation committee and accepted by participating institutions. FPMs consist of "a set of flexible…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Associate Degrees, Higher Education, Institutional Cooperation
McQuarrie, Fiona A. E. – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2020
Within the BC Transfer System (BCTS), decisions to award transfer credit are important to the overall success of the system. When courses are deemed to be equivalent, the ability to transfer credits from those courses facilitates students' mobility and academic success, in addition to creating cost efficiencies at the participating institutions.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transfer Policy, College Credits, Decision Making
McQuarrie, Fiona A. E. – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2016
It is generally assumed by educators that the K-12 curriculum--the curriculum used in primary, elementary, and secondary education--will affect students' post-secondary educational experiences and their ability to enter the workforce. This report takes a multi-faceted approach to addressing the impact of changes in the K-12 curriculum on students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education
King, Alyson E.; McQuarrie, Fiona A. E.; Brigham, Susan M. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2021
In our research on university students from historically under-represented backgrounds who successfully graduate from their undergraduate degree program or are in their final year, we found that many who participated in out-of-class activities indicated those activities were important to their success. We take a strengths-based approach to focus…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Persistence, Student Participation, Extracurricular Activities
