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Download full textGrubb, W. Norton – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2010
Basic skills courses are designed to teach students certain basic academic competencies they have not mastered. However, very little research has examined the quality of instruction inside basic skills classes. This paper presents preliminary findings from observations in 13 California community colleges. The clearest finding is that…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Innovation, Basic Skills, Educational Quality
Direct linkGrubb, W. Norton; Boner, Elizabeth; Frankel, Kate; Parker, Lynette; Patterson, David; Gabriner, Robert; Hope, Laura; Schiorring, Eva; Smith, Bruce; Taylor, Richard; Walton, Ian; Wilson, Smokey – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE (NJ3), 2011
A previous working paper argued, that, to understand basic skills education, it is necessary to observe classrooms to see what the "instructional triangle" involving the instructor, students, and content is like. This working paper presents the results of observing classes in 13 community colleges. It starts with a conceptualization of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Community Colleges, Basic Skills, Teaching Methods
Grubb, W. Norton; Kraskouskas, Eileen – 1992
Given recent Federal Government and business community emphasis on integrated vocational and academic education, a telephone survey of community colleges was made to explore what forms such integration is taking. Information was gathered through telephone contact with 45 community college officials recruited through a mailed questionnaire to a…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Faculty, College Programs, Community Colleges
Grubb, W. Norton; Worthen, Helena; Byrd, Barbara; Webb, Elnora; Badway, Norena; Case, Chester; Goto, Stanford; Villeneuve, Jennifer Curry – 1999
This qualitative study of community college faculty, based on classroom observation and interviews of 257 instructors and 60 administrators at 32 community colleges across the country, was undertaken to explore what "teaching looks like in a teaching college." The researchers were especially interested in the collective nature of teaching: the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Educational Quality
Badway, Norena; Grubb, W. Norton – 1997
This first volume of a sourcebook presents a framework for identifying best practices of integrating career preparation into the community college. An introduction identifies seven domains of competency critical for postsecondary students: foundation academic competencies, education for citizenship, job specific/technical skills, career…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Career Education, Career Exploration
Badway, Norena; Grubb, W. Norton – 1997
This second volume of a sourcebook is a collection of 46 examples of innovative practices colleges and technical institutes are using to impart the seven domains of career preparation described in volume I. A table of contents in chart format provides this information: page, identification (model and description, college), academic level (transfer…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Career Education, Career Exploration
