This report summarizes data obtained in a questionnaire administered in Fall 1978 to participants in Rio Hondo Junior College Community Services and Noncredit classes, and discusses additional data on costs and enrollments. The objectives for the 1977-78 program are listed; they included increasing enrollment and attendance, surveying participants…

A basic writing course designed for college freshmen who do not score high enough on entrance examinations to qualify for regular composition courses emphasizes the positive aspects of a student's writing. The nongraded course consists of four components: journal writing, grammar instruction, in-class paragraph writing, and controlled composition.…

The publication was developed to provide cursory information about the people, places, and things essential to career and vocational education that may be seen at the Comprehensive Illinois Occupational Education Demonstration Center (CIOEDC) in Joliet, Illinois. The CIOEDC was designed to demonstrate several K-14 career and vocational education…

Examines crucial differences between E. Levinas and M. M. Bakhtin in an attempt to construct an ethics for the postmodern subject and to offer an angle of intervention into the current debates, especially the "social constructivism versus essentialism" controversy. (TB)

Examples are given of problems which can be solved pictorially, thus aiding in the general development of geometric intuition and in developing some of the basic ideas of probability. (MP)

Finds an approach to improving revision skills that integrated strategy instruction, peer response, and word processing to be highly effective with seventh- and eighth-grade students with learning disabilities. (SR)

Presents a model of adaptive education based on the systems-dynamic approach to the problem of student attrition. (DC)

Rapidly changing patterns of birthrates over the past several decades have created a Canadian and North American population whose age structure shows continuing and potentially oscillating changes in its age group distribution. The increased participation of women in the workforce and their promotional aspirations further complicate what were…

In 1983, a follow-up study was conducted to gather information on the employment and educational status of 1979 graduates of Mercer County Community College (MCCC) The survey questionnaire, which requested background, employment, and educational information and sought the graduates' opinions of MCCC programs and services, was mailed to 580…

The 20 articles appearing in the January, 1971, issue of The Illinois Journal of Education reflect the concept of continuing education as viewed by various agency representatives of Illinois government and by outstanding adult educators throughout the State. Article titles are: Why a Continuing Education Program?; An Associate Degree from Schools…

In response to input from the employment and training community, the Department of Labor's Assessment and Research Development Program (ARDP) and its state partners have developed two self-assessment work value instruments to be incorporated into career exploration and counseling programs. Computerized multiple rank-order and paper-and-pencil…

Argues that grounded theory, an explicit approach to the analysis of qualitative data, is ideal for applied settings and can be adapted to the limited, sporadic opportunities available to faculty and faculty developers who focus on classroom interaction and social relations. Introduces key features and techniques of this approach. (JB)

Of the 6,076 students enrolled at Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) in fall 1985, 2,389 (39.3%) were "leavers," i.e., they did not graduate and they did not return in winter 1986. Because new students made up 33.8% of the total fall headcount, but accounted for 41.7% of the leavers, a study was conducted to investigate the characteristics of…

There are many critical problems that are influencing the status of literature and the teaching of literature in the United States today, according to this paper. Some of the problems cited are the poor quality of recent best selling books; the smaller number of people who read books compared to the number of people who read magazines and…