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Myra Jean Beckers – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The 21st-century global economy has significantly changed the landscape of the American workplace. Apprenticeship training programs are gaining momentum as a postsecondary training approach to fill growing worker shortages for industry-specific needs and prepare workers for new or expanding industries (Fitzpayne & Pollack, 2018; Freyer et al.,…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, Community College Students, Classroom Environment
Matthew Sterner-Neely – ProQuest LLC, 2021
At Ciudad Community College (pseudonym) and across the Colorado Community College System, the course competencies for Technical Writing I (ENG 131) have more than tripled to accommodate ENG 131 as a guaranteed transfer course equivalent to ENG 121: English Composition I. Unfortunately, this has had the effect of increasing the workload for…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Technical Writing, Writing (Composition), Authentic Learning
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Petersen, Joan; Chan, Patrick – American Biology Teacher, 2020
A partnership between a community college biology professor and a local high school teacher was established to engage high school students in authentic microbiology research. High school students isolated actinomycetes from soil samples and tested them for their ability to produce antimicrobial chemicals. They also designed and carried out their…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Authentic Learning, Microbiology, High School Students
Deborah Baker – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This descriptive correlational case study sought to identify professional development recommendations for full-time community college faculty teaching within a guided pathways environment. Community college faculty across an urban, multi-college district in the southwestern United States were surveyed about their current learner-centered teaching…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Guided Pathways, Faculty Development
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Lee, Tim S. O.; Lin, Shu Yang – Educational Research, 2019
Background: Although the usefulness of Dörnyei's framework of motivational strategies to language teachers has been widely tested, motivational techniques that are not within the framework have less commonly been accounted for. Purpose: This study explores the uses of motivational strategies beyond Dörnyei's taxonomy, and the factors that cause…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Educational Strategies, Student Motivation, English (Second Language)
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Pressler, Charlotte – Honors in Practice, 2019
Over the past three years, honors faculty at South Florida State College, a two-year college offering a limited number of workforce baccalaureates, have reinvented their program. Rather than the themed seminars and exploratory courses popular with an earlier generation, our honors courses now offer students project-based, faculty-guided…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students, Foreign Countries