ERIC Number: ED124257
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1975
Pages: 185
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The Development of a Model for the Management of a Student-Centered Program at a Community College Utilizing Human Potential Seminars, Cognitive Style Mapping, and Career Planning.
Lee, Owen M., Jr.
Based on the example of the experimental We Weigh and Achieve to Gain Success (WAGS) program at Polk Community College which is designed to deal with unmotivated, undecided, and unprepared students, this study develops a model for implementing a student-centered remedial program at the community college level. The model outlines procedures to follow in program development, staffing, organization, implementation, supervision, and evaluation. Basically, what results is an interdisciplinary course employing three techniques: (1) human potential seminar (a structured small group experience founded on the assumption that something is right with the participant); (2) cognitive style mapping (a diagnostic battery which determines how a student takes notice of his total surrounding, how he searches for meaning, and how he contrasts or relates information); (3) career planning. This model program is intended to improve the student's self-concept, and motivate him to achieve a definable objective. A review of the literature establishes the need for such a program, and the validity of the psychological and educational approaches employed in developing the model. (NHM)
Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses
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Identifiers: Cognitive Mapping; Polk Community College FL
Note: Ed. D. Dissertation, Nova University


