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A Necessary Intervention: Conceptualizing and Employing Critical Racial Ethnic Studies
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Crystal Charity – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Over the last decade, secondary schools around the United States have rapidly adopted ethnic studies courses. For instance, California's governor mandated ethnic studies as a high school graduation requirement in 2021 (Magcalas, 2023). According to scholars, ethnic studies courses offer educational experiences that disrupt the erasure and…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Secondary Schools, Courses, Required Courses
Developmental Education Success: Exploring Student Success Strategies in Developmental Education at the Community College Level
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Karen L. Beck – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2022
The problem investigated in this study was the low completion rates of students in mandated developmental education courses at a local community college in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The purpose of this study was to examine factors that may contribute to the persistence of community college students who have completed mandated…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Academic Persistence, Required Courses, Remedial Programs
The Place of Literature in an English Language Teaching Program: What Do Students Think about It?
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Tehan, Patricia; Yuksel, Dogan; Inan, Banu – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
This study investigated the attitudes and opinions of students towards the use and place of literature course in language teaching. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 3 groups of students: (a) the students who had not taken any literature courses before (n = 7), (b) the students who were taking a literature course at the time of the…
Descriptors: English Literature, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Understanding the Negative Graduate Student Perceptions of Required Statistics and Research Methods Courses: Implications for Programs and Faculty
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Coleman, Charles; Conrad, Cynthia – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2007
The authors of this study endeavor to explore the negative opinions and perceptions of graduate students in business and social science programs, regarding their required statistics and research methods courses. The general sense of instructors of such courses is that students dread and resent having to take courses dealing with statistics and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Courses, Student Attitudes, Negative Attitudes
A Preliminary Typology of Motivational Orientations of Community College Students.
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Attinasi, Louis C., Jr.; And Others – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1982
Reviews a study of the reasons students enroll in individual community college courses. Classifying students as "requirement meeters,""knowledge seekers," or "specific information users," compares motivational orientations along three dimensions: major criterion of success; educational aspect emphasized (instrumental or expressive); and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Courses, Educational Attitudes, Enrollment Influences
Course Selection and Decision Making at Johnson County Community College.
Johnson County Community Coll., Overland Park, KS. Office of Institutional Research. – 1987
In spring 1987, a study was conducted at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) to ascertain student preferences for courses which fulfilled a set of new degree requirements and to develop a broader understanding of factors affecting class selection decisions. A representative sample of JCCC students attending 32 classes was surveyed in class…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Selection (Students), Courses, Decision Making