This case study tracks the application of project-based learning (PBL) during four separate college terms at Portland Community College in Portland, Oregon. Each term follows a different learning community of first-term college students enrolled in a program of developmental education (DE), reading, writing, math, and college survival and success…

This article advocates an approach to WAC/WID assessment that prioritizes student learning and encourages students in upper-division writing intensive (WI) courses to take greater responsibility for their course writing experience. At start of term, students complete a self-assessment and goal-setting survey called the Writer's Personal Profile…

Based on a recent study, this article asserts that training programs in classroom testing are constrained by classroom management demands (chiefly student resistance to higher order thinking tasks), the curriculum's overemphasis on broad content coverage, a lack of organizational commitment to strengthening the teaching-testing connection, and…

Data were collected from high school vocational education seniors and students enrolled in community college vocational programs for use as baseline for a longitudinal followup study over the next five years. Two Oregon high schools and three community colleges participated. Findings indicated over 70 percent of the high school seniors in college…

A followup study conducted in 19 high schools throughout Oregon involved 1,296 early leavers and graduates of the class of 1981. Both vocational education and nonvocational students participated. Data came from three sources--surveys of former students, transcripts and permanent files of these students, and program rating data from vocational…