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Lord, Thomas R. – 1988
This study was designed to determine if the final grade in college biology at a suburban community college was a true measure of student's knowledge. One hundred and seventy undergraduates taking a semester course in biology took part in the study. This population was randomly separated into a control, placebo, and experimental group. The progress…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, College Science, Community Colleges
Hill, Earl A. – 1984
A study was conducted to examine the job attitudes of public two-year college instructors of developmental/remedial courses. The study used a path-analytical theoretical model to examine the relationships among the instructors' self-role congruence and length of service (the independent variables); total job satisfaction and organizational…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Mobility
Morton, Ruth D.; Newman, Dianna L. – 1984
A statewide study was conducted to collect demographic data on teachers of non-credit community college courses; to determine the reasons for their part-time employment in continuing education programs; and to ascertain differences in reasons for teaching based on age, sex, length of time engaged in teaching, satisfaction with teaching, and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Job Satisfaction
Malpiedi, Barbara J.; And Others – 1985
Surveys administered to 48 state student representatives and 46 chapter advisors attending the 1983 National Future Farmers of American (FFA) Conference on Community Development provided data about the Building Our American Communities Program (BOAC), which originated in 1970 as vocational agriculture's vehicle for high school level community…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Citizen Participation, Community Development, Program Content
Watson, Joseph A.; McGinn, M. J. – International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, 1987
Presentations at the September 1985 conference of the International Association of Consultants in Higher Education Institutions are reviewed. Activities related to university-industry cooperation for regional development in Japan and Massachusetts and at Stanford University and Queens University in Ireland are summarized. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, College Administration, College Role
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Sheckley, Barry G. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1985
Details a study of learning involvement among adults through interviews with 41 males over 25 enrolled at a small New England community college. Interviews revealed that in the preceding year respondents completed an average of seven learning projects, spending 285 hours on each, and that 56 percent of the projects were self-directed. (DMM)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Style, Community Colleges
Fink, Teri A. – Educational Technology, 1985
This study focused on the users of and their purpose in using the online bibliographic database DIALOG in the library at Wenatchee Valley College (Washington); cost effectiveness of the online system in a community college setting; amount of use the service received; and level of user satisfaction with the service. (MBR)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
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Vadasy, Patricia F.; Jenkins, Joseph R.; Antil, Lawrence R.; Wayne, Susan K.; O'Connor, Rollanda E. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
Twenty at-risk first graders received 30 minutes of individual instruction from community tutors four days a week for up to 23 weeks. Subjects outperformed the control group on all reading, decoding, spelling and segmenting, and writing measures. Tutors who implemented the program with a high degree of fidelity achieved significant effect sizes in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Grade 1, Individual Instruction
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Riffe, Daniel; And Others – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1989
Describes the views of nearly one-third of America's over 250 Black mayors on the performance of primarily White-owned community newspapers in their coverage of Blacks, Black leaders, and the Black community. Overall, Black mayors view local press performance unfavorably, finding overemphasis on conflict coverage and unfair, unbalanced reporting.…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Leadership, Blacks, City Officials
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Benson, Janet E. – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1990
Studies why Vietnamese and Laotian refugee households take the forms they do in a small southwestern Kansas community. Argues that extended family and other nonnuclear family households facilitate refugee adaptation. Economic conditions, labor and housing markets, and refugee legal status all influence household composition, members' roles, and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Asian Americans, Community Role
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Douzenis, Cordelia – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1994
Describes the development, structure, and potential uses of the Community College Student Experiences Questionnaire (CCSEQ), a student self-report instrument that provides information about students' academic and social integration into the community college setting. Provides CCSEQ data from 478 students attending selected community colleges in…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Community Colleges, Questionnaires, Self Evaluation (Groups)
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McKee, Jane Gallimore – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1991
Reports on a survey of 321 community college faculty comparing reported job satisfaction with their perceptions of the leadership styles of their college's president. Finds high job satisfaction correlated with a "high relationship/low task" leadership style. Finds low job satisfaction among male and vocational faculty. (DMM)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Evaluation, College Faculty, College Presidents
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Wade, Rahima C.; Everett, Susan – Social Education, 1994
Asserts that, although active citizenship is heralded as the goal of social studies, few textbook studies have attempted to define or examine civic participation. Reports on a study of the treatment of citizenship in four widely used third-grade textbooks. Finds that, although the texts are largely supportive of mainstream political values, they…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility
Ferguson, Brad; McDonnell, John – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1991
This study, with six high school students with moderate to severe disabilities, found that students who received concurrent sequence training demonstrated better generalized performance in three nontrained grocery stores than students who had received serial sequence training, once training criterion was attained though training required more…
Descriptors: Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Daily Living Skills, Generalization, High Schools
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Cuvo, Anthony J.; Klatt, Kevin P. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1992
Community-referenced sight words and phrases were taught to six adolescents with mild or moderate mental retardation, using three instructional methods in two locations. Results showed rapid acquisition of the sight words in all three training conditions and showed generalization from the flash card and videotape conditions to the community sites.…
Descriptors: Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Daily Living Skills, Functional Reading, Generalization
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