This guide provides a summary of the information and suggestions covered on an audiotape designed to help students prepare for and take tests. First, introductory material presents a rationale for the development of the testing skills materials and a discussion of their use at Lane Community College. Next, the objectives of the tape are specified…

At Mercer County Community College (New Jersey) an experimental learning resources center and a new curriculum in the social sciences were developed having primary objectives of: (1) keeping more minority-group students in school, (2) reducing their withdrawal rate, (3) developing assessment techniques accommodating inner-city populations, (4)…

Developed by Portland Community College's (PCC's) Institute for Community Assistance, this guidebook provides checklists of steps that need to be followed in the development and delivery of new, experimental, and custom-designed programs for the community. The booklet begins by explaining the function of the Institute in assisting PCC staff in…

Describes two types of computer-based experiments: simulation (which assumes no student knowledge of the workings of the computer program) is recommended for experiments aimed at inductive reasoning; and modeling (which assumes student understanding of the computer program) is recommended for deductive processes. (MLH)

Plans for the implementation of programs and services at Cuyahoga Community College's Center for Urban-Metropolitan Development are presented for fiscal year (FY) 1980. After introductory material outlining the history of the Center's development since its inception in 1978, the report enumerates the data sources and quantitative and subjective…

A study was conducted at Green River Community College (GRCC) in Washington to assess the effectiveness of policies requiring students on academic probation to formally apply for reinstatement before continuing their studies. The study's experimental group consisted of those students who were placed on academic probation during Fall 1975 and who…

Educational objectives to guide the Academic Senate include: discover and convey knowledge for learning, thinking, and problem-solving; accentuate individuality, creativity, and originality; develop awareness of real social/cultural conditions in the world; enrich emotional response; show the egalitarian relationship between student and teacher.…

Cost-saving considerations, the threat of declining enrollments, and efforts by community colleges to be responsive to their communities have created a temporary staff maintained on a relatively permanent and continuing basis. Between 1975 and 1983, roughly two new part-time positions were created for every new full-time position. Rather than…

Categorizes and discusses the factors associated with fear of success in women in terms of familial socialization, psychological influences, and cultural norms. Indicates that any one or combination of these factors can precipitate fear of success manifested in defeatist behaviors, which in turn undermine career development. (DMM)

The responses of the 81% of the Fall 1968 night students completing a student-characteristics questionnaire are presented in charts and graphs, and compared with responses to similar questionnaires from previous semesters. Increases were found in the numbers of (1) full-time students taking evening classes, (2) single students, (3) students…

Provides abstracts of selected mathematics and science papers presented during the conference. Topics included: (1) problem solving using the computer; (2) controlling the environment through Logo; (3) software and technology in the science curriculum; (4) learning multiplication facts using multiple strategies; and (5) limitations and potential…

This document presents the findings of three state-required career student follow-up studies--a one year follow-up of 1972-73 students, a three year follow-up of 1970-71 students, and an initial placement (six months) follow-up of 1973-74 students--in the form of two reports. Ninety-one, 94, and 99 percent of the former graduates and nongraduates…

The "Voices and Visions" series, a set of instructional videos on the lives and art of 13 important American poets, has the desirable potential to reach an audience that is virtually unlimited. The videos are a skillful blend of photographs, film footage, interviews with scholars, critics, and poets, readings by actors, and sometimes by the poets…

This study sought to address three questions related to the pronunciation of Spanish by non-native speakers: (1) does the pronunciation of upper-intermediate become "fossilized?"; (2) is their a relationship between quality of pronunciation and amount of improvement?; and (3) when judging degrees of "foreignness," are linguistically trained native…

CONTEMPORARY NOVELS CAN BE USED EFFECTIVELY BY TEACHERS IN THE CLASSROOM. JOHN KNOWLES'"A SEPARATE PEACE," FOR EXAMPLE, LENDS ITSELF TO DIFFERENT KINDS OF LITERARY CRITICISM. AN ARCHETYPAL INTERPRETATION OF KNOWLES' THEMATIC PURPOSE REVEALS THAT THE NOVEL IS BASED ON TWO MYTHS--THE INITIATION OF INNOCENCE INTO EXPERIENCE AND THE SACRIFICE OF THE…