This report represents the results of the third biennial high school survey sent to approximately 10,400 Nevada high school seniors during the spring of 1990. Sixty-six percent of the surveys were returned, compiled, and analyzed. Among the findings of the survey are the following: (1) more seniors plan to attend school during the year following…

Surveys of program graduates of a model science teacher education program were compared with responses from a national sample of exemplary teachers. Results indicated a high degree of similarity between the two groups and provided evidence that a good preservice science teacher education can have a positive effect on the development of preservice…

To determine the cost/benefit relationship between education, incarceration, and welfare, a comparison was undertaken of the actual institutional costs required to produce an associate degree graduate at Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC), in Florida, and the institutional costs of incarceration and welfare in the state. Costs analyses were…

In order to identify the instructional techniques instructors have found to be effective in various courses, to obtain their views on other instructional techniques, and to collect suggestions on how instruction can be further improved, a survey was conducted of a representative sample of De Anza College (California) faculty. A questionnaire was…

A sample of 30 instructors nominated as effective teachers to the Piper Foundation and 31 randomly selected control instructors from the same 14 Texas colleges were evaluated by students, former students, administrators, peers, and the instructors themselves. The research instrument incorporated ten sets of characteristics expressed as polar…

An adjunct faculty member who teaches in three very different colleges and universities sees the similarity of course objectives for freshman writing, in which each program emphasizes rhetorical mode requirements to the exclusion of writing as discovery. Student writing is product-centered, and the writing act is linear in that it adheres to a…

Comparative financial information for fiscal year 1985-86 is presented in this report derived from two surveys of 506 public community and junior colleges. Chapter 1 provides guidance on the use of the report in comparing institutional statistics with national and peer group medians; points out limitations of the data; and summarizes findings in…

The number of students expected to enroll in Montgomery College yearly through 1987 is projected on the basis of a model incorporating past trends, population projections, economic indicators, and other factors on which viable assumptions about the future can be based, into a system of linear equations expressed in matrix notation. The model…

Elements of strategic planning are discussed in terms of their relevance for occupational education. Introductory remarks focus on the educational implications of the transformation from an industrial society to a technological society based on information. Two facets of strategic planning are discussed next: external assessment, which involves…

In 1990, the full-time teaching faculty of Catonsville Community College (CCC) were given a faculty inventory as part of a staff development activity. The staff development program included a faculty meeting devoted to a panel discussion of the seven principles for good practices in undergraduate education designed by the Center for Teaching…

Geometry is revealed as one of the most universal and useful tools in all parts of mathematics, with the idea of a "pure" geometry divorced from algebra an historically recent idea. (MP)

A follow-up job placement study of the 228 persons who either graduated or left Johnson County Community College (JCCC) with marketable skills in 1975-76 produced 191 interview respondents. Findings included the following: the average age of respondents was 28 and 34% were 30 years or older; 53% were male; 64% had enrolled to acquire job skills…

The Liberal Arts Program described in this report is the largest and most stable of the projects of the Institute of Study for Older Adults (ISOA) at New York City Technical College. The report deals with the program's activities and emphases during 1979-80. After introductory material on the ISOA's growth, activities, funding, and outreach model,…

A longitudinal study of full- and part-time credit students was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC), Palatine, Ill., to provide comparative information on student performance and achievement between 1967 and 1981. A random sample of 200 full-time and 200 part-time students entering WRHC each fall during this period was selected, and…

Staff from DuSable High School in Chicago, Illinois, collaborated with Malcolm X College and three area hospitals to develop a medical technician training program focusing on career awareness and development of the basic reading and math skills needed for any career. A 3-year Med Tech curriculum for grades 9, 10, and 11 and a career awareness…