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Download full textEl Camino Coll., Torrance, CA. – 1995
This is the final report of a cooperative basic skills and literacy project of El Camino College (California) and two companies, BP Chemicals/Hitco Inc. and a division of the Hughes Aircraft Company. An extension of an earlier workplace program with BP chemicals, the program provided basic mathematics, reading, and English-as-a-Second-Language…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Aerospace Industry, Basic Skills, Business Communication
Dumont, Richard G.; And Others – 1981
A project designed to evaluate the quality of basic skills programs in writing, reading, and mathematics, which was implemented at a regional university and a community college within a statewide system in the Southeastern United States, is described. A multiple-indicator strategy was used, involving both short-range and long-range postprogram…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Basic Skills, College Students
Michaels, Linda A. – 1978
A fourteen item Likert-type attitude scale concerning a college-level basic skills program was developed from topics suggested by the program staff. The scale was completed by 216 college freshmen who were enrolled in at least one of the three courses offered by the program: writing and reading, study habits and thinking strategies, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Course Evaluation
Mei, Dolores M.; And Others – 1986
Evaluation results for the College Bound (C.B.) program at New York City public schools are presented. The C.B. program seeks to improve reading and mathematics skills of high school students who are 2 or more years below grade level and to prepare these students for college. It includes basic skills instruction in reading, career and college…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Preparation, Educational Objectives, High Risk Students
Brantley, Jerry; And Others – 1981
The Basic Skills Program described in this report was developed by Macomb County Community College (MCCC) as a semester-long pre-vocational program for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) students. Following introductory material, Part I presents a general review of postsecondary developmental education programs for…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Planning, Community Colleges, Counseling
Benjamin, Barbara Cohen; And Others – 1976
The Learning Skills Center (LSC) at Los Angeles City College is an individualized learning laboratory which offers assistance to students in communication skills and quantitative skills, and provides tutoring in all college-level courses. ISC's programs are diagnostic and prescriptive, and services are available to students on both voluntary and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Bibliographies, Community Colleges, Dropout Rate
Lyons, Linda – 1994
Jersey City State College (New Jersey) developed a local evaluation model to assess all salient aspects of the institution's basic skills program. The college's Academic Foundations Program was implemented to address the needs of urban educationally disadvantaged students. It includes faculty and staff development and research, freshman course…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Assessment
Bengis, Laraine – 1986
The Prefreshman Summer Program for academically and economically handicapped students at the City University of New York (CUNY) was evaluated in 1985 and compared to previous evaluations. The voluntary, 6-week transitional program provides intensive basic skills instruction, tutoring, counseling, and financial aid to incoming students who fail to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, College Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs
Bohr, Dorothy H.; Bray, Dorothy – 1979
In fall 1978, Sacramento City College initiated the Higher Education Learning Package (HELP) to promote the success and retention of students with basic skill deficiencies while mainstreaming them into regular courses. Students work with instructors and tutors in small groups and on a one-to-one basis. Using an integrative team teaching approach,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education
Van Dusseldorp, Ralph A. – 1978
The third-party evaluation of the second year of the Iowa Central Community College Experience Based Career Education (EBCE) Project was based on examination of project records, interviews with project staff, student and resource persons, questionnaires completed by students, parents and resource persons, and test data collected on students at the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Career Planning, Educational Testing
Mei, Dolores M.; And Others – 1990
Both half-year and full-year students enrolled in the 1988/89 College Discovery and Development Program of the New York City public schools surpassed the program's evaluation objectives in writing and mathematics and came close to meeting the objective in reading. The program, affiliated with the City University of New York, is a basic skills…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Preparation, College School Cooperation, Compensatory Education
Butte Coll., Oroville, CA. – 1985
A description is provided of a pilot study conducted at Butte College to develop and test evaluation procedures for the college's remedial and developmental reading, English, and math programs. Part I of the report includes five sections: (1) a description of the remedial reading, English, and mathematics programs as they existed at Butte College…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs
Dumont, Richard G.; And Others – 1982
A multiple-indicator and multiple-design approach for evaluating the quality of basic skills programs in reading, writing, and mathematics that has been implemented within a statewide system of higher education in the southeastern United States was assessed. Several of the evaluation methodologies are compared in order to determine whether results…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, College Programs, Comparative Analysis
Rodwick, John; Grady, Michael J. – 1976
This research report presents the findings of an evaluation of the compensatory education program at El Paso Community College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, which has been in existence for six years. The results of scores made on admission tests were used to determine whether entering students were functioning at the college level. Students with…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, English Curriculum
Farrell, Virginia, Comp. – 1994
Cuyahoga Community College's (CCC) Unified Technologies Center (UTC) collaborated with three Cleveland area manufacturing companies in a workplace literacy project. The project provided job-related mathematics and communications programs for 302 employees who needed basic skills upgrading to improve their job performance. The project…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Communication Skills
