Wisconsin is in the process of transitioning to new English language arts and mathematics standards that will better prepare students to be successful in college and their careers. Time, effort, and resources must be dedicated to effective implementation in order to realize the promise of these new common core state standards. This paper captures…

Wyoming is in the process of transitioning to new English language arts and mathematics standards that will better prepare students to be successful in college and their careers. Time, effort, and resources must be dedicated to effective implementation in order to realize the promise of these new common core state standards. This paper captures…

The president of Staten Island Community College, New York, describes the tension between greater equality of opportunity and the quest for excellence in the two-year colleges of the U.S. (Editor)

Investigates and evaluates the idea of the community/junior college as an effective educational model to be adopted by developing nations. Briefly describes two-year colleges in the United States, Canada, and Japan. (DC)

This publication, issued twice per year, includes proceedings from Two-Year College Chemistry Conferences and papers of special interest to the two-year college chemistry teacher. Both chemical safety in the laboratory and the integration of laboratory work with teaching are discussed. Also discussed are topics related to the teaching of…

The ability of children between the ages of two years and four years, eight months, to produce locative pre- or postpositions was investigated in English, Italian, Serbocroatian, and Turkish to discover universals of conceptual and communicative development. (Author/AM)

Policy documents informing the profession of teaching in Australia and elsewhere explicitly recommend nurturing those new to the profession working collaboratively with colleagues. Key to the development and growth of beginning teachers is the informal exchange of ideas and knowledge between colleagues--essentially through the functioning of a…

Explores the use of non-credit writing laboratories as a means of providing junior college students assistance in meeting the requirements of the freshman English course. (RB)

Compares online literature retrieval with traditional reference services. Discusses the reasons for and against adding online reference services to two-year college libraries and the unique applications online search services may have in the community college environment. (CBC)

This experimental study aims to investigate the effects of using collaborative learning to enhance students' speaking achievement. The study using a pre-test and post-test design was conducted with 35 undergraduate students enrolled in a fundamental English course at Bangkok University to examine their speaking achievement on an English oral test…

For the past 10 years, the Center for the Study of Community Colleges has been tracing the rate of transfer from the two-year colleges to four-year colleges and universities across the nation. In order to derive a transfer rate, the number of students enrolled at the college, subdivided according to certain criteria, must be divided into the…

Traces the increasing emphasis on the assessment of two-year college student outcomes in each edition of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges'"Handbook of Accreditation" since 1978. (DMM)

Statistical findings based on some 200 research measurements made over a two-year period on students in a four semester program in Creative Studies at Buffalo State University College. (CB)

At Wayne State University, a two-year research and curriculum effort, the Professional Writing Project (PWP), showed that English departments can better prepare students to write effectively for the workplace and increase writing faculty's research and teaching capabilities through collaborating with industry to plan a professional writing…

A study was conducted to examine the achievement levels of entering freshmen at a two-year college over a 5-year period to determine if scores were significantly different over the years. Analyses were made of the English, reading, and math scores on the Stanford Task Test of Academic Skills for Junior/Community Colleges of a random sample of 100…