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Peer reviewedPope, Carol A. – Clearing House, 1999
Describes a university/school partnership in which teacher-education students at the university responded via e-mail to the writing of 6th graders, resulting in advances for writers and teachers of writing. (SR)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Technology, Electronic Mail, English Teacher Education
Download full textGuam Community Coll., Agana. Office of the State Agency for Vocational and Adult Education. – 1994
In 1992, the Guam System of Performance Measures and Standards for vocational education was adopted. In 1993-94, results of the performance measures and standards indicated the following: 68 percent of secondary students achieved the 0.5 grade growth in reading; about 90 percent of postsecondary students scored a mean gain of 1.2, well over the…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedWeissglass, Julian – Two-Year College Mathematics Journal, 1976
The author advocates interactive instruction of small groups of students, rather than lecturing, and offers advice to both teachers and students involved in discussion groups. (SD)
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Discussion Groups, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Higher Education
Holt, Marianne; Lucas, John A. – 1994
In an effort to evaluate the effectiveness of its dental hygiene program, William Rainey Harper College (WRHC), in Palatine, Illinois, conducted a follow-up study of its dental hygiene students. The survey instrument was mailed to all 31 1993 dental hygiene associate degree graduates, and a response rate of 97% (n=30) was attained. Results of the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, College Graduates, Community Colleges, Dental Hygienists
Hadley, Ollie B.; Andrews, James – 1978
An Organizational Development (OD) questionnaire was designed at Los Angeles Southwest College to enhance planned change in that educational organization. The questionnaire measures attitudes in seven organizational development concept areas: (1) institutional climate indices--opportunity for advancement, general institutional conditions, concern…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Community Colleges, Institutional Research
Lawton, Robert E. – 1985
A plan was developed to improve followup study response rates by refining techniques for data collection and improving student motivation to respond to daily requests. Factors affecting response rate to followup surveys were investigated, and alternative approaches were recommended. Findings indicated that current procedures--two mailouts of…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Data Collection, Followup Studies
Rotman, Jack W. – 1991
Drawing from research and observations at Lansing Community College (Michigan) (LCC), this paper argues that typical arithmetic courses do little to prepare students to master algebra, and proposes an alternative set of arithmetic skills as actual prerequisites to algebra. The first section offers a description of the algebra sequence at LCC,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Algebra, Arithmetic, Community Colleges
Saskatchewan Inst. of Applied Science and Technology, Saskatoon. – 1989
In fall 1988, the Board of Directors of the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST) created a task force to study the training needs of the mining industry in the province and evaluate SIAST's responsiveness to those needs. After assessing the technological changes taking place in the industry, surveying manpower needs,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Governance, Mining, Needs Assessment
Garza, Nora R.; Gibbs, Linda – 1994
Findings of two doctoral research studies analyzing the organizational and instructional characteristics of successful reading and mathematics developmental programs in Texas community colleges are presented in this report. The first paper describes a 1989-90 analysis of developmental reading test scores to determine the characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Black Students, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Hispanic American Students
Baker, Jeanette – 1978
Since the opening of Pima Community College (PCC), the occurrence of concurrent enrollment at the University of Arizona and PCC has become common. Of the 584 concurrent registrants in the fall 1976 class at PCC, 9.4% were freshmen, 24.3% sophomores, 22.6% juniors, 24.2% seniors, and 19.5% unclassified. The most frequently taken courses at PCC were…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dual Enrollment, Enrollment Influences, Postsecondary Education
Rose, Shirley – 1995
An exploration was made of the discursive conventions for inscribing a reciprocal relationship between research activities and teaching practices typical of articles published in "College Composition and Communication." The study looked at 31 essays published in the 1993 volume. Ten recurring features of the articles were identified; each feature,…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Audience Awareness, English Departments, Higher Education
PROFILE OF THE POOR WRITER--THE RELATIONSHIP OF SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS TO POOR WRITING IN COLLEGE.
WOODWARD, JOHN C. – 1965
A STUDY OF THE SPECIFIC BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS OF WRITING GROUPS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI WAS CONDUCTED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE BACKGROUND PROFILE OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE CONSIDERED POOR WRITERS, I.E., STUDENTS WHO RECEIVED D OR E IN WRITING FOR THE SEMESTER PRIOR TO THIS STUDY. DATA OBTAINED FROM STUDENT ANSWERS TO A QUESTIONNAIRE ARE…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Background, Educational Research, English
Wilson, Gary W.; Oerke, George W. – 1981
Intended to assist continuing education professionals in the planning and implementation of local preretirement training programs, this paper provides information on Edison State Community College's program, developed for use by industrial, commercial, and public agency employees and the general public. First, an overview is presented of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Community Education, Curriculum Development
Fahsbender, Kenneth E. – 1969
Observing how much junior college counseling and advising was unsuccessful, the author examined selective faculty advising. He felt that, if faculty members could handle routine academic and career advice, counselors would be freed for the more complicated cases or personal/social problems. For assignment to faculty advisers, 14 counselors chose…
Descriptors: Counseling, Doctoral Dissertations, Faculty Advisers, Guidance
Waltz, Esther; Berry, Louis H. – 1991
This study investigated the interaction between cognitive lateral functions and pictorial recognition memory for pictures presented in three different color modes. The stimulus materials used were slides selected from a pool of travel and general geographic scenery slides taken in various parts of North America. One third of the slides were…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Color, Intermode Differences
