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Download full textSegebarth, Daniel C. – 1995
A comparison is provided between general education core requirements and basic skills and competencies at the community college level in Illinois. First, general education core requirements from the Illinois Community College Board and South Suburban College are outlined related to communication; mathematics; humanities and fine arts; social and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
White, Eileen Casey – 1994
The Food Processors Skills Building project was undertaken by four Oregon community colleges, with funds from the Oregon Economic Development Department and 11 local food processing companies, to address basic skills needs in the food processing industry through the development and implementation of an industry-specific curriculum. Based on…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Curriculum Design
South Seattle Community Coll., Washington. – 1994
In the 1993-94 academic year, the Liberal Studies Division at South Seattle Community College conducted surveys of all Division faculty, students in random classes, and 150 former students who had transferred to the University of Washington (UW) to determine their perceptions regarding students' basic skills levels, students' critical thinking…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classroom Techniques, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Dwyer, Ann – 1998
The Workplace Improvement of Necessary Skills (WINS) project was initiated by a statewide coalition of Washington businesses and educational institutions to prepare workers in a number of high-performance workplaces to participate fully in their work environments. Together, the project's 11 sites served 872 participants. All project instructors…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship
Enterprise State Junior Coll., AL. – 1992
In April 1991, Enterprise State Junior College and MacArthur State Technical College established a rural workplace literacy demonstration project in partnership with adult basic education, seven employers, and a labor organization. The project served 615 persons in classes offered at the 2 colleges, 4 partner locations, and 3 additional worksites.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Ancillary School Services, Basic Skills
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. – 1991
The third in a series of annual employer opinion reports from the Florida Education and Training Placement Information Program (FETPIP), this 1991 report summarizes the results of three surveys of Florida employers known to have hired former vocational education program participants. One survey solicited employers' general opinions about…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Employer Attitudes, Job Skills
Spahr, Anthony E. – 1987
A study was conducted at Morton College (Illinois) to gain a better understanding of the factors which contribute to academic success in introductory nursing courses, and to investigate the relationship between the following variables: student grades in Fundamentals of Nursing I and II, Anatomy and Physiology I, and Rhetoric I; and their scores on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
Seymour, Evan – 1986
Making sense of developmental education in the two-year college is difficult, particularly in the shadow of the fear that it is not working very well. There is no choice, however, but to examine openly a serious problem. The "story" about developmental education in the two-year college that most educators would like to believe is that of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Belcher, Marcia – 1986
A study was conducted at Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) to examine the separate and combined effects of entering basic skills levels and curriculum-related variables (i.e., grades in required English and math courses, the length of time between the course and the test, and the number of credits in developmental courses) in predicting student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Mathematics Skills
Owens, Thomas R. – 1985
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…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Choice, College Students, Goal Orientation
Scott, David C., Ed. – 1987
Brief one-page descriptions are provided of efforts being made at member colleges of the League for Innovation in the Community College to bring underprepared students into the higher education mainstream. The 75 descriptions are organized into six sections: (1) Pre-College Skills, including programs such as Cuyahoga Community College's (Ohio)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Faculty Development
Palmer, Jim – 1984
A study was conducted to assess the extent to which taking college courses improves students' basic reading and writing skills. The study utilized data collected in fall 1983 by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) on 5,962 students in community college districts in Los Angeles, California; St. Louis, Missouri; and Miami-Dade,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
Lukenbill, Jeffrey D.; McCabe, Robert H. – 1978
This document presents the results of Miami-Dade Community College's three-year effort to design a general education program for the community college. A rationale, definition, and 26 goals for general education introduce the revised programs and requirements in three areas: (1) basic skills requirements, (2) the general education program, and (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Academic Standards, Ancillary Services, Associate Degrees
Romoser, Richard C. – 1978
As the second assessment study of developmental education programs at state-assisted higher education institutions, this 1978 study reviews reports from 27 of 57 programs receiving funds from the Ohio legislature. Reports dealing with attitudes and opinions of the programs indicated that the responses of the majority of students were strongly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs
Handleman, Chester – 1977
Schools and educators are being called to task so that students will be able to achieve academically and gain basic skills. While few people argue with the need for gradual, reasonable, and proven changes in curricula, the massive infusion of innovative curricula and teaching methods often intended to maximize affective learning may have had a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Cognitive Development
