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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Burns, Kimberly – Community College Enterprise, 2010
The United States is addressing unprecedented economic challenges, and community colleges have been identified by the federal government as part of the solution (Lothian, 2009). Unparalleled federal support to community colleges provides these institutions with a tremendous opportunity to influence the trajectory of the country's economy through…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Attainment, School Holding Power, Student Characteristics
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Torres, Chanda; Evans, Ruby – Community College Enterprise, 2005
In this article, the researchers describe a qualitative interview study in which three current presidents of community colleges in Florida shared their beliefs and perspectives regarding contemporary issues affecting the community college as an institution of higher education. The Florida Community College System, with its network of 28 community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Higher Education
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Sigworth, Denise; Hawkins, Cheryl; Daiek, Deborah – Community College Enterprise, 2003
Discusses the institutional inventory completed at Schoolcraft College (Michigan), which focused on how to learn or teach necessary skills, the skills that are important for success, and the best way to assess skills necessary for competency. Reports that most stakeholders agreed on the skills that are important for success, but they held various…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Job Skills
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Trutna, Kevin – Community College Enterprise, 2002
This article discusses the 6-E Report Card, a tool that provides a quantitative evaluation of instructional programs based upon a unique decision-making model that meets objectives by measuring excellence, equity, efficiency, effort, effectiveness, and ethics. Programs are assessed for their ability to meet or exceed predetermined performance…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
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Carroll, Jonathan – Community College Enterprise, 2002
This paper discusses ways to evaluate processes, describes methods of gathering information, and presents an outline for developing a continuous improvement model. Such assessment tools, as opposed to traditional "satisfaction surveys," can examine the service process and provide institutions with useful information to use as a catalyst for change…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Participant Satisfaction
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Ansalone, George – Community College Enterprise, 2002
The author asserts that as attrition rates across the country continue to increase, colleges must examine and evaluate programs that contribute to the problem. Educational delivery systems, such as tracking, contribute to attrition and risk because they stimulate negative self-concepts in students, foster resentment and misconduct, and do not…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Delivery Systems, Educational Assessment