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50 Years of ERIC
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Mattatuck Community Coll., Waterbury, CT. – 1990
This document contains a developmental curriculum plan for an articulated curriculum in hospitality/food service for Connecticut's Mattatuck Community College and area high schools. The curriculum guide includes a course description, criteria for evaluation, attendance policy, objectives, a curriculum area outline, 17 content area objectives, a…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Food Service
Thomas, Elwyn – 1987
This study examined how a sample of pre-university Singaporean adolescents (N=212) with an average age of 17 years 5 months attending a variety of junior colleges perceived and managed different sources of stress. Measures of stress included Behavior Profile, Life Events, School Stress Factors, Home-School Stress Conditions and Stress Symptoms.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Stress Management
Evans, John W.; Morris, Anita – 1993
To provide a progress report on efforts to increase access to minority students and diversify the teaching and administrative ranks, a study was conducted at San Joaquin Delta College (SJDC), in California, of recent trends in minority student attendance and graduation rates and the ethnic composition of faculty and administrative staff. Results…
Descriptors: Administrators, Affirmative Action, Community Colleges, Diversity (Institutional)
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Dean, Winston – 1991
Over the past 3 years, the Mathematics Department of Grossmont College, in California, has examined the issues of course standards, instructor grading variability, and course placement. In 1990, a study was conducted to determine if the Elementary Algebra instructors with lower pass rates had higher standards, and if their students had a higher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Algebra, Community Colleges
Born, Warren C., Ed. – 1973
Papers compiled in this publication focus on creativity and foreign language instruction, the "less-able" student, and curricular innovation. Representatives papers include: "Is Creativity in the Eye of the Beholder?,""How to Increase Latin Enrollments,""Mini-Courses,""Focus on Bilingual Education and TESOL,""Instructional Techniques for the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Relations, Conference Reports, Creative Teaching
Nivette, Jos, Ed. – 1976
Selected papers that address theoretical and practical training of the modern language teacher and language teaching experiments in various countries are presented. Some of the articles included are the following: "Les problemes de la formation linguistique et pedagogique des professeurs de francais en Afrique Subsaharienne" (The Problems of the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communicative Competence (Languages), Developing Nations, Educational Change
Fugle, James B., Jr. – 1968
This description of the probation-retention-disqualification policy at Santa Monica City College (Calif.) may provide guidelines for other institutions. A student may be placed on probation if he (1) has a GPA below 2.0 in all college units attempted, (2) is a transfer while on probation from or disqualified by another school, or (3) is readmitted…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Disqualification, Grade Point Average, Two Year Colleges
Morton, Ruth D.; Rittenburg, Terri L. – 1986
Despite the growth of non-credit programs and the increase in numbers of part-time students and part-time teachers, little research has been conducted that provides data about part-time teachers and their motivations for teaching. A two-phased study was conducted to group reasons for teaching into meaningful, empirically based categories and to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Factor Analysis
Ramirez de Castro, Annie – 1985
Designed as a reference tool for faculty, staff, researchers, and proposal writers, this fact book compiles institutional statistical data on students and faculty, the budget, student services, personnel, and learning resources at Ponce Technical University College (PTUC). Section A focuses on students, presenting information on distribution of…
Descriptors: Budgets, College Faculty, College Libraries, Educational Finance
Hawk, Thomas R. – 1988
A study was conducted to identify the factors that influence adults to continue their education by taking formal course work on a part-time basis. Using May 1981 Current Population Survey data gathered by the Bureau of the Census, the study assessed the importance of price, socioeconomic characteristics, family income, and unemployment rates in…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Black Education, Community Colleges, Educational Status Comparison
ANDERSON, ERNEST F. – 1966
TO DETERMINE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG COSTS OF SPECIALIZED VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL CURRICULA AND GENERAL OR LIBERAL ARTS CURRICULA, PROGRAMS AT EIGHT PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES WERE ANALYZED, AND THE TOTAL COSTS OF EDUCATING A STUDENT IN EACH CURRICULUM WERE COMPUTED. SEVEN CONCLUSIONS ARE OFFERED--1) MOST OCCUPATIONAL AND TECHNICAL CURRICULA COST MORE PER…
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Finance, Expenditures, Program Costs
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Marashio Paul, Ed.; And Others – Pedagogy Journal, 1996
This annual serial volume contains 19 articles offering practical pedagogical ideas from faculty at New Hampshire technical colleges. The following articles are presented: (1) "Goodbye Mr. Desrochers or What I Learned While Teaching My First Lit. Course," by Diane Chin; (2) "A Teacher Learns: Building a Fly Rod," by Walter Ryan; (3) "A Teacher in…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Distance Education
Smith, Elmer L. – 1969
Uses of the cloze procedure for both diagnosis and for practice exercises for improving reading comprehension in a junior college reading program are described. Every tenth concept word--nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs--was omitted from expository prose selections of about 350 words each, and the reader was asked to write the missing word in…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Reading Comprehension, Reading Diagnosis
Starkweather, Ann, Comp. – 1971
These instructional objectives have been selected from materials submitted to the Curriculum Laboratory of the Graduate School of Education at UCLA. Arranged by major course goals, these objectives are offered simply as samples that may be used where they correspond to the skills, abilities, and attitudes instructors want their students to…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Behavioral Objectives, Two Year Colleges
Starkweather, Ann, Comp. – 1971
These instructional objectives have been selected from materials submitted to the Curriculum Laboratory of the Graduate School of Education at UCLA. Arranged by major course goals, these objectives are offered simply as samples that may be used where they correspond to the skills, abilities, and attitudes instructors want their students to…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Electronics, Two Year Colleges
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