This study examined how Supplemental Instruction (SI) visits help traditionally disadvantaged students reduce the performance gap in their courses. A student is defined as holding a "disadvantaged" status when he or she can identify with the following factors: underrepresented minority status, first-generation status, Federal Pell Grant…

Published twice annually as a forum for the critical review of proposals, programs, and practices in Florida's community colleges, this journal provides articles by community college practitioners analyzing issues and showcasing exemplary practices. The first issue of volume 1 includes the following articles: "Starving the Solution"…

Discusses role and trend information on developmental or remedial education for recent high school graduates attending Washington community and technical colleges. More specifically, it provides information on high school graduates who attended a community or technical college in the year following graduation. Also provides separate information on…

The essays in this collection were written by John Lombardi during the 1970s while he was a resident scholar at the ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges. Following a foreword on Lombardi's life and work by a son and two daughters, John V., Mary Luciana, and Janice P. Lombardi, is an introduction by Arthur M. Cohen giving highlights of Lombardi's…

Designed to assist faculty, staff, and administrators in understanding the strategic planning process at Florida's Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) and to help them develop guidelines to measure the effectiveness of their unit, department, or administrative area, this report outlines the key missions of the community college, presents sample…

To understand the elusive nature of the community college, one must understand the process of assimilation that constantly reshapes its mission. Assimilation refers to the process of identifying educational solutions to ever-emerging, broad-based social issues and problems and incorporating these solutions into the community college's mission as…

Designed as a forum for discussion of substantive issues in humanities disciplines and the place of the humanities in higher education, this journal offers articles, book reviews, and reports covering a variety of humanities-related topics. This issue contains: (1) "The Feasibility of Educational Change," by Richard Ekman; (2) "The Humanities and…

This comprehensive developmental career education program includes follow-up and evaluation studies to serve students desirous of full- or part-time employment. Employment counseling is defined as individual or group assistance to secondary school students which will then enable them to develop and demonstrate successful job-seeking and holding…

Summarizing the progress of Project Green River Opportunities for Work (Project GROW), the document reviews the study's background and the activities resulting from a third party evaluation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Objectives based on the evaluation and recommendations included: (1) development of an articulated and…

This paper focuses on the concept for Christian education to be permeated with great moral and ethical teaching. Character education can be the tool for that necessary teaching if consistent with Biblical teaching. There is great demand for the teaching of morality in all schools today, yet is the intention in Christian schools really to teach…

This review of research, developed in cooperation with the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, was designed to analyze and synthesize the research related to developmental psychology and its relationship to science education. The review is divided into five parts: (1) Introduction; (2) Historical Precedents of the Developmental…

The document contains 10 appendixes to the evaluation of 32 projects in the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP). Included are samples of six project-based measurement instruments (including a parent survey form and a student followup assessment), an instruction package for psychologists to use in determining handicapping…

The Developmental Economic Education Program (DEEP) has a goal of integrating the study of economics into the kindergarten through grade 12 curriculum. A large number of the school districts in Arkansas are DEEP school districts. This paper discusses the DEEP state network in Arkansas, and evaluates the effectiveness of the teacher educational…

Noting that metacognition plays a vital role in reading, this report summarizes research dealing with the development of metacognition in an especially important type of reading--reading to learn. The report is organized around four categories of metacognitive knowledge and control: (1) the text, (2) the task to be performed by the learner as…

This literature review provides a portrait of the current state of theory, instruction, assessment, and professional development of numeracy education for Adult Basic Education (ABE) students. It addresses the following five research questions by summarizing key findings from the literature: (1) How does adult numeracy develop and how does it…