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Download full textMayer Bryant, Veronica; Hsu, Gabriella; Kempson, Lauri – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2022
ACTA's What Will They Learn?® (WWTL) project is designed to help students choose the best college or university for them. The printed report and its online companion WhatWillTheyLearn.com represent the only assessment of U.S. colleges and universities that focuses on what schools are actually teaching. This report assigns grades to over 1,130…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, College Curriculum, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Direct linkMerrill, Henry S., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2018
The purpose of this book is to assist post-traditional students to achieve success in the Occupational, Workforce, and Leadership Studies (OWLS) Department and develop their individualized pathway to earn the interdisciplinary Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences (BAAS) degree at Texas State University. Applied baccalaureate degrees incorporate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Nontraditional Students, Bachelors Degrees, Interdisciplinary Approach
Pidluzny, Jonathan; Urban, Nathaniel; Quillen, Alexandra; Kempson, Lauri – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2021
"What Will They Learn?" has been documenting for the last 13 years the crisis of weak core curriculum requirements. In addition to helping students choose the right college for the right reasons, American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) works with college and university leaders on campuses around the country to strengthen curricula…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, College Curriculum, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Pidluzny, Jonathan; Urban, Nathaniel; Quillen, Alexandra; Kempson, Lauri – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2020
In this 12th edition of its flagship annual survey of college general education curricula, "What Will They Learn?," American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) shines a light on the wide disparity in academic standards at institutions of higher learning across the country. "What Will They Learn?" reviews the core curricula…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, College Curriculum, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Peer reviewedChen, M.-H.; Huang, M.-C.; Ting, Y.-C.; Chen, H.-H.; Li, T.-L. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
In this article, a course on high-frequency wireless communications systems is presented. With the 145-MHz baseband subsystem available from a prerequisite course, the present course emphasizes the design and implementation of the 2.45-GHz front-end subsystem as well as system integration issues. In this curriculum, the 2.45-GHz front-end…
Descriptors: Prerequisites, Laboratories, Telecommunications, Computer Networks
Minger, Mark A.; Simpson, Patricia – Journal of Elementary Science Education, 2006
This study reports on the measured change in the attitude of students toward teaching science as a result of their experiences in an elementary activity-based science course for preservice elementary teachers. Overall, the students in this study showed a positive shift in attitude as measured by the Revised Science Attitude Scale instrument that…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers
