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Nwagwu, Emmanuel C. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1993
Reviews Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) services and JTPA's potential for helping community colleges retain students. Discusses how community colleges can effectively expand their role in meeting the educational needs of JTPA participants through collaborative job training efforts with private enterprise. (DMM)
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship
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Clagett, Craig A. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1991
Describes how Prince George's Community College developed an institutional research-based approach to accountability reporting in response to Maryland's statewide accountability requirements. Offers specific examples of the application of institutional research data to the development of accountability plan objectives. Identifies several issues…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Institutional Research
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O'Brien, Thomas V. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1991
Reviews major research conducted between 1984 and 1989 on test anxiety among college, concluding that test anxiety may result from long-term memory problems. Explores techniques for reducing test anxiety, assessing the relative validity of each. Proposes a holistic approach to reducing test anxiety that addresses cognitive and emotional…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Community Colleges, Holistic Approach, Learning Strategies
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Ewing, Martha M. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1991
Assesses the effectiveness of methods used by instructors in Collin County Community College's psychology department to increase student involvement in learning: a laboratory component, extensive writing to learn, classroom research, and business/industry apprenticeships. Concludes that active participation promotes synthesis and integration of…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Classroom Research, College Instruction, Community Colleges
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Losak, John – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1990
Describes the centralized research model used by Miami-Dade Community College. Explains that the district's central office assumes responsibility for conducting all phases of the institutional research program (e.g., determining the research agenda, carrying out projects, monitoring projects, and disseminating results). Highlights strengths and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Centralization, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges
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Muller, Robert T.; Goebel-Fabbri, Ann E.; Diamond, Terry; Dinklage, David – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2000
Analysis of 65 high-risk adolescents admitted to psychiatric inpatient units found that social support was a protective factor in cases of family violence experienced as either a victim or witness. However, social support did not appear to buffer the maladaptive effects of community violence, although there was a generally insignificant…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Community Problems, Emotional Disturbances
Oetzel, John; Duran, Bonnie – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research The Journal of the National Center, 2004
This essay synthesizes the research on intimate partner violence (IPV) in American Indian and/or Alaska Native communities using a social ecological framework. The review of literature demonstrates that American Indian and/or Alaska Native women are at an elevated risk for IPV compared to non-American Indian women and thus this essay describes…
Descriptors: Cultural Relevance, Females, Alaska Natives, American Indians
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Borden, Victor M. H. – Change, 2004
The term "student swirl" was coined by Alfredo de los Santos and Irene Wright in 1990, along with the term "double-dipping" (concurrent enrollment at two institutions), to characterize the back-and-forth, multi-institutional attendance pattern common among students attending community colleges. However, traditional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Practices, Curriculum Development, Transfer Students
Clagett, Craig A., Ed. – Journal of the Maryland Association for Institutional Research, 1991
This journal chronicles a sample of the papers and presentations delivered during previous annual meetings of the Maryland Association for Institutional Research on the fifth anniversary of that association. A first paper, one from the first annual meeting in 1987 titled "Environmental Scanning: Assessing Local Business Training Needs"…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Accountability, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges
Windham, Patricia; Howard, Preston O. – 1991
At Tallahassee Community College (TCC), a full-time equivalent (FTE) based ratio was used as the basis for comparing the college's staff allocations with those of other community colleges in the state. The development of a statewide personnel database by the Florida State Board of Community Colleges provided the means for investigating this ratio.…
Descriptors: Classification, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
Huxman, Susan Schultz; Iorio, Sharon Hartin – 1993
Noting that the trend in the newspaper industry from the predictive-control model to the explanative-naturalistic model mirrors a trend in the communication discipline toward qualitative research and more meaningful connections between industry and academia, a study investigated Sedgwick County, Kansas residents' concerns regarding politics and…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Communication Research, Community Attitudes, Higher Education
Kocher, Earl D.; Houston, Charles – 1983
An attempt was made at Mountain Empire Community College to develop and implement an impartial and equitable method of faculty evaluation. As part of this process, an instrument was developed to provide both a quantitative and qualitative student rating of faculty. The instrument contains 10 questions covering the syllabus/course outline,…
Descriptors: Class Size, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Evaluation Criteria
Michael, Douglas O., Comp.; Rivenburgh, Edwin, Comp. – 1986
Data are presented from a survey of each of 34 New York State community colleges: Adirondack, Broome, Cayuga, Clinton, Columbia-Greene, Corning, Dutchess, Erie/City, Erie/North, Erie/South, Finger Lakes, Fulton-Montgomery, Genesee, Herkimer, Hudson Valley, Jamestown, Jefferson, Mohawk Valley, Monroe, Nassau, Niagara, North Country, Onondaga,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrator Responsibility, Administrators, Community Colleges
Koppel, Sheree P.; Isenhour, Karen D. – 1986
The Multiphased Need Assessment for Program Decisions (MAP) was designed to inform decision makers of a large urban school district concerning the need for early childhood programs in the community. The goals were to indicate the types of programs desired by the community; to bring together public school preschool experts; and to coordinate…
Descriptors: Community Study, Data Collection, Educational Planning, Evaluation Methods
Korsching, Peter F., Ed.; Gildner, Judith E., Ed. – 1986
Texts of 12 research papers are presented in this proceedings of a 1985 conference specifically focusing on the interdependence of agriculture and rural communities. Titles of Session I papers providing information on the current situation and trends in agriculture and rural communities are "An Overview of the Nonmetro Economy and the Role of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Trends, Agriculture, Change Agents, Change Strategies
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