Deans of guidance (practitioners) at 45 California community colleges with enrollments of 10,000 or more and seven career guidance experts nominated by these practitioners responded to a survey on career guidance in public community colleges. Respondents evaluated statements concerning the objectives, services, staff roles, and organizational…

A study involving 441 students enrolled in pre-calculus mathematics courses at Black Hawk College, Illinois, during Spring 1981 was conducted to measure the correlation between the level of students' math anxiety and four independent variables: sex, age, math background (as measured by the highest level of math course previously completed), and…

The Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) program (University of Hawaii) prepares community college instructors and administrators. To determine student characteristics, program effectiveness, and usefulness of training, 110 questionnaires were mailed to EPDA participants; 62 were returned. A student profile revealed: equal numbers of male…

An educational cognitive style map was prepared for each new student in the Allied Health Division of Spartanburg Technical College in Fall 1978. The Cognitive Style Map Interest Inventory was administered and individual profile sheets were developed for each of the 130 students in the division. These profile sheets provided a composite picture of…

Fifty-nine students enrolled in Nursing II at the College of San Mateo completed an assessment tool designed to measure students' perceptions of their knowledge, skills, and understanding in terms of specific course objectives. The assessment instrument consisted of 16 objectives in eight subject areas (basic physical, emotional, and…

In order to develop a plan to furnish students with field experience within Oxnard College's psychology curriculum, this study reviewed existing programs at other area colleges through a literature review and interviews with field experience directors, examined the Oxnard curriculum and developed a plan for a directed field experience program…

A self-instructional unit in early reading designed for community college child care students is presented in this paper along with information about the development of the unit. Introductory chapters discuss the controversy about teaching young children to read, the systems approach used in developing the unit, and the steps followed in preparing…

This document provides case studies of innovative Composition I programs at six community colleges throughout the country. Information on the various programs was obtained by means of field research at the colleges. Chapter One describes a grammar-oriented approach at Houston Community College and analyzes the reasons and techniques of teaching…

In order to determine views held by and toward out of school rural youth in terms of educational and occupational aspirations, alternatives to rice farming, migration propensity, and community participation, a survey was conducted during July, 1977, in Sir-bua, a rice-farming village in northeast Thailand. Utilizing an interview guide and an…

A survey was administered to 1,903 students enrolled in 45 sections of History 27 (American history) and Political Science 5 (political institutions), both 3-unit courses required for graduation at Cerritos College (California), to ascertain whether students would have taken either course if it had not been required and to determine preferences…

The author designed an instructional package including slides and tape cassettes for individual use by students learning to use a hand calculator to perform computations. Students (n=17) using the package were given pretests and posttests of ability and attitude. On the three sets of cognitive objectives, mastery was achieved by 96 percent, 76…

A study was conducted to assess commonalities and differences in perceptions among full- and part-time community college business instructors and their supervisors in selected Illinois public community colleges for the following areas: (1) supervisory and personnel development practices currently utilized with business instructors; (2) the ranked…

These three essays focus on the creation and sustenance of learning communities among students and instructors at the college and university level. The essays are: (1) "Creating and Sustaining Learning Communities" (Carolyn Dudgeon), which emphasizes a seamless educational continuum for lifelong learners in a collaborative, caring…

This study examines the status of information literacy skills among the faculty of Adirondack Community College (ACC) in New York, and describes factors that enhance these skills. Three primary questions posed by the study are: (1) what information literacy skills do faculty have now?; (2) what factors strengthen the teaching of information…

A study investigated whether group interaction in completing cloze passages resulted in better completion than individual work. An earlier analysis of cloze procedure was replicated with 41 community college students of English as a Second Language (ESL). The population was randomly divided into two samples. Each sample completed two cloze…