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50 Years of ERIC
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Planning for Productive College-Level Work: Using the Course Assignment Framework.
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Mohr, Kathleen A. J. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2002
Asserts that well-designed course assignments are a critical component of effective teaching and learning processes. Discusses the Course Assignment Framework, which delineates 10 assignment categories, their rationales, and their advantages for faculty and students. States that the framework promotes combining tasks so that instructors can…
Descriptors: Assignments, Community Colleges, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Academic Dishonesty: Cheating among Community College Students.
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Moeck, Pat G. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2002
Examines the problem of cheating among community college students and offers suggestions for detection and prevention of academic dishonesty. Includes an inventory of "paper mills" and a list of cybercheating preventative and investigative software. (Contains 36 references.) (AUTH/NB)
Descriptors: Cheating, Codes of Ethics, College Students, Community Colleges
Teaching the History of Human Sexuality.
Rubini, Dennis – Community College Social Science Journal, 1978
Outlines the assignments and topics covered in a 13-week human sexuality course and reviews and annotates course readings and films. Topics covered in the class include: sexuality in sex-positive and sex-negative cultures, in pre-industrial Europe; in Russia and Germany; in the Third World; and in advanced capitalist society. (AYC)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Descriptions, Cultural Differences, Postsecondary Education
Basic Questions for Introductory Sociology.
Parmley, Ingram C. – Community College Social Science Journal, 1980
Looks at five questions that serve as the core of an introductory sociology course, presenting the essence of sociology without inundating the student with information: What is sociology? How do societies develop rules for living? What if the rules don't work? How are new rules developed? So what? (AYC)
Descriptors: Course Content, Introductory Courses, Postsecondary Education, Sociology