Maintains that psychology majors can broaden their career opportunities to include such areas as marketing, personnel, and training and development. Describes the most important psychological and nonpsychological skills required for these areas and provides information on coursework which would support professional certification and employment…

At Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC), in Florida, a committee was formed to define administrator excellence in the context of teaching and learning and to develop a performance review process. During the second pilot-testing of the resulting Performance Review Feedback Survey process, over 1,200 surveys provided information on 283…

Discusses a short computer program used in teaching the random (RND) function in the BASIC programming language. Focuses on the mathematical concepts involved in the program related to elementary probability. (JN)

This study evaluated the effectiveness of the curriculum for a remedial mathematics program administered as an audio-tutorial self-paced class at Lake Michigan College. Twelve variables were selected for analysis, including pretest scores, mathematics skills test scores, final grades, time spent, age, gender, and attitude from 247 students…

The Commission on Quantum Quality was established by the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) in February, 1992, to investigate total quality management (TQM) programs in community colleges, universities, the government sector, and business and industry in order to recommend an appropriate program for MCCCD. To gather information,…

Many universities and colleges have initiated faculty improvement programs which are directed at keeping the faculty intellectually rigorous, at encouraging the academic growth of individual professors, and at helping experienced teachers make adaptations to changes in student populations and institutional reorganization. This paper describes the…

In spring 1982, a follow-up study was conducted at Wytheville Community College (WCC) to determine the current activities of students enrolled during fall 1979 who did not graduate; the employment status of occupational technical graduates; the progress of transfer students enrolled at four-year institutions; and the opinions of both graduates and…

The Long-Range Planning Committee at Holyoke Community College (HCC) in Massachusetts has devised a 5-year plan to help the college focus on its most important priorities as it seeks to grow and accommodate change. This planning document identifies seven major institutional goals, objectives comprised by each goal, long-range strategies to achieve…

A statewide assessment process was designed and pilot tested to determine the extent to which competency-based instruction (CBI) has been implemented in vocational-technical education programs and courses in all public community and technical colleges in Texas. The final report consists of two volumes. Volume I contains the rationale…

Enrollment cards, transcripts, and financial aid records were examined for a 10% random sample of the 2,500 students in the Peralta Community College District who were receiving Basic Educational Opportunity Grants (BEOG) during 1977-78. Analyses were made to determine: (1) the degree to which the students complied with BEOG eligibility…

A Local History Program (LHP) was implemented at the majority of community colleges in North Carolina to assist lay involvement in research and enhance the preservation, preparation, dissemination, and use of local and family history materials in the state. The four major components of the LHP were the community colleges that volunteered to host…

A review of research on the three types of auditory disorders, concentrating on inefficient learning which results from problems in auditory processing. (DD)

Fluency in language as measured by total number of communication units appears to be the single most important concomitant of reading success. (JH)

A study was conducted at a multicampus community college in Michigan to determine the role orientation of full- and part-time occupational faculty. In addition to collecting demographic data, the study sought to determine whether faculty were locals, characterized by a high level of loyalty to the organization and a low commitment to specialized…

In May 1974, the Institutional Functioning Inventory (IFI), which measures individual and collective perceptions or orientations of respondents concerning institutional functions generally agreed to be important in the context of higher education in contemporary American society, was administered to a "stratified-volunteer-quota" sample of the…