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Goodfellow, Paula; And Others – 1984
This study compares (1) the English language use of limited-English-speaking foreign and native English-speaking college students in doing chemistry laboratory work, writing lab reports, and taking lecture notes; (2) the relationship of the language use to performance; and (3) the relationship of the foreign students' beliefs about their language…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Writing
Muraski, Ed J. – 1980
The need for including job entry application skills training in vocational curricula is pointed to by occasions when "A-students" fail to compete successfully in the job market and survey results that reveal that 50% of the reasons why employers reject applicants are related to the job application process. These skills, taught by the vocational…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Community Services
WorkAmerica, 2002
In a world of constantly changing demands for knowledge and technical skills for the work world, higher education has been slow to change to meet these demands. The numbers of American students receiving bachelor's degrees in engineering, mathematics, and computer science fell significantly between 1987 and 1998, while the demand rose. In…
Descriptors: College Programs, College Role, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development
Hymel, Glenn M. – 2002
The massage therapy profession is currently engaged in a competency-based education movement that includes an emphasis on promoting massage therapy research competencies (MTRCs). A systems-based model for integrating MTRCs into massage therapy education was therefore proposed. The model and an accompanying checklist describe an approach to…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Allied Health Occupations Education, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests
Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit Newsletter, 1991
Four issues of a newsletter form this document. The first issue, Winter 1991, includes the following articles: "Ensuring Quality"; "Wordpower--Actions and Reactions"; "Corporate Links with the Community"; "The Road to Progress in Siberia"; and "Teaching Visually Handicapped Students." In the Spring…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Audiotape Recordings, Basic Skills
Lehman, Sheila – 1983
During 1981-82, the Native American Education Program, based in a lower working class neighborhood in Manhattan, served 360 Native American children (K-12) scattered throughout New York City. Goals of visiting and interviewing 50% of the target population of 500 Native American students in the city were substantially realized. Materials and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, American Indian Education, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Community Services
Daugherty, Mabel H. – 1981
A project was undertaken to plan a consumer education program and delivery system for elderly persons in the six-county Bootheel area of Southeast Missouri. Included among the project's activities were the following: (1) assessing the needs and qualifications for consumer education programs for the elderly through a literature search and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Consumer Education, Curriculum Development
Papalia, Anthony; Zampogna, Joseph – 1974
Curriculum is continually changing because it is based on needs of the student, needs of society, and subject-matter knowledge. In 1973, cultural, communication, and career goals assumed greater importance. Curriculum design involves consideration of interest and ability grouping, self pacing, mastery learning, multiple approaches to learning,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Classical Languages, College Language Programs, Community Colleges
Iowa State Dept. of Public Instruction, Des Moines. – 1974
Seventy projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III, and providing the funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of educational innovations, are described in this document about Iowa Title III exemplary programs. Projects are subdivided according to planning grants, operational grants, guidance…
Descriptors: Career Education, Communications, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1974
Eighteen projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of educational innovations, are described in this booklet developed as a dissemination project by Title III in Oklahoma. Programs described are said to have the common theme of increased…
Descriptors: Accountability, Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Counseling Services
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. – 1978
A guide developed by classroom teachers of foreign languages is presented. It is intended to be a practical tool for the teacher who wants to develop in students a set of skills which are sequentially presented. It is also directed to administrators and supervisors so that they too may participate in the development of a vital foreign language…
Descriptors: Administrators, Career Education, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Jarvis, Gilbert A., Ed. – 1976
This volume on foreign language teaching and learning concerns the following topics: lifelong learning, small-group learning, the minicourse, student attitudes toward foreign languages, problems in secondary schools, humanistic education, curricula in uncommonly taught languages, foreign languages in elementary and adolescent-centered education,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, FLES
Kirk, Gordon; Kirk, Jenny; Fletcher, Mick; Vorhaus, John – 2001
As a result of new adult education funding arrangements announced by the Further Education Funding Council for England in Spring 2000, short courses of 3 or 6 hours duration were developed that concentrated on basic skills, information and communications technology (ICT), and general lifelong learning subjects. Courses were designed as minicourses…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Students
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