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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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Thonney, Teresa; Montgomery, Joe C. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
This article relates the efforts of faculty at one community college to define standards for achievement of two SLOs (critical thinking and effective communication) and to gather and analyze evidence of how well students meet those standards. Faculty from 13 disciplines assessed writing samples from 265 students. We found that, in general,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Credits, Outcomes of Education, Information Literacy
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Porr, Dean; Acar, William – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2010
Observed differences between Associate and Bachelor students are often justified by citing the comparative poorer performance of 2-year students that continue into 4-year programs. This research offers a different approach by investigating introductory-level management courses taught as a combined class at a regional campus of a state university.…
Descriptors: Transfer Students, Academic Achievement, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees
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Glaser, Hollis F.; Bingham, Shereen – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2009
This study explores what classroom behaviors and activities in the basic speech course contribute to student connectedness. The results indicate that student encouragement, humor, honesty, interactive exercises and individual speeches, can help student bonding and motivation, and impacts their overall college experience.
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Student Attitudes, Speech Curriculum, Two Year College Students
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Doolittle, Peter E.; Lusk, Danielle L. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2007
The purpose of this research was to explore the effects that gender and institutional classification have on the inclusion of syllabus components. Course syllabi (N = 350) written by men and women from seven types of institutions, based on Carnegie classification, were sampled and evaluated for the presence of 26 syllabus components. The gender…
Descriptors: Classification, Institutional Characteristics, Course Descriptions, Gender Differences