In instructional design for higher education, it is important to the success of all students to take into account the differences in individual learning styles. Research indicates that different student populations have characteristically different approaches to learning and that teachers can use patterns of effective practice to foster success…

Student enrollment for fall 1975 at Montgomery College totalled 13,907. This figure represents a rise of 1,278 from fall 1974, and a 4,372 rise from fall 1971, the first year for which comparative data are provided. This document provides a profile of the student body in terms of age, sex, race, marital status, residence status, country of origin,…

To promote active student learning and improve student self-reliance, the Learning Center at Utah's Salt Lake Community College has designed several innovative training activities for peer tutors. In one activity, which seeks to demonstrate the importance of student feedback, peer tutors sit back to back while one in the role of "tutor" describes…

A study investigated the instructional usefulness of HANGMAN, a computerized vocabulary development game, for university students of English as a Second Language. In the ten microcomputers available to students, the regular version of the game was replaced with a modified version in which all student key-strokes were recorded automatically.…

A Bilingual-Bicultural Education Institute was conducted on the Choctaw Reservation to identify specific competencies needed by teachers in a bicultural school setting and to explore the use of criterion-referenced measurement in assessing level of performance of the participants. Of the forty people who participated in the Institute, twenty-one…

A study was conducted in summer 1990 to measure the educational goal attainment of students who were enrolled at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) during 1986-87, and who had not re-enrolled at the college since that time. Questionnaires requesting information on JCCC experiences and outcomes, level of satisfaction with JCCC, current…

The University of Guelph's Office for Educational Practice, an administrative unit for instructional development that relies on faculty volunteer leadership and participation, is described and discussed in the context of research on improvement of instructional effectiveness. (MSE)

These guidelines for California's community colleges specify required elements of a staff diversity/affirmative action plan, recommend sound practices and activities that will maximize the likelihood of success, and provide information on, and required elements of, related issues such as sexual harassment, handicap discrimination, and AIDS in the…

Proper student recruitment and retention programs can bring about sustained institutional holding power and subsequently greater financial solvency. In establishing such a program, the following premises should be accepted: (1) retention begins with recruitment of prospective graduates; (2) a high quality educational advisement program leads to…

Investigates the ability of adults and children to understand aspects of semantic ambiguity. (DD)

Describes major trends in adult learning; i.e., expanded focus on career choice and preparation, changing roles in the workplace, skills training in the community, and changing lifestyles. Views positive communication skills, group skills, career balance, wholistic thought, creative management, and educational brokering skills as essential…

Excerpts from the most significant recent studies related to career development and vocational education are presented in four sections: Part I, Excerpts From Recent Publications, which includes the "Role of the Secondary Schools in Preparation of Youth for Employment" by Jacob J. Kaufman, et al and "A Rationale for Vocational-Technical Education…

TWO PRINCIPLES SHOULD GUIDE CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS--(1) EVERY OFFERING OF AN INSTITUTION DESIGNED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ADULTS SHOULD REFLECT THE STRENGTHS AND CAPABILITIES OF THAT INSTITUTION, AND (2) EVERY CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM SHOULD BE THOROUGHLY INTEGRATED WITH THE INSTRUCTIONAL DEPARTMENT OF THE CAMPUS INVOLVED. THE JUNIOR…

As cutbacks continue to be made in college programs and faculty, composition programs will have to prove themselves effective or else face massive cutbacks. To improve their programs, composition instructors should abandon the ineffective approaches of the past, which have been based on formal courses in the principles of good composition, and…

This independent study module treats those Americans who have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. They include Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Pearl Buck. Selections from the writings of these authors are included. Their works represent many literary genres and also…