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Download full textLopez, Cecilia L. – 1996
This report includes comments and recommendations from a group of consultant-evaluators at the North Central Accreditation Commission (NCA), assessing different student learning evaluation techniques utilized by 440 higher education institutions, including 162 two-year colleges. Recommendations include linking the assessment of student learning…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Basic Skills, College Role, Community Colleges
Nussbaum, Thomas J. – 1997
Four important changes for the community colleges of California are proposed. First, legislation should be developed that establishes the basic framework for enabling community colleges to restore a level of access to community college education and training for more citizens. This would provide economic and social opportunity for more citizens,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Basic Skills, College Role
Georgia Univ., Athens. Dept. of Occupational Studies. – 1995
This document lists core standards and occupational knowledge and skills that have been identified and validated by industry as necessary to all Georgia students in secondary-level technical/engineering programs. First, foundation skills are grouped as follows: basic skills (reading, writing, arithmetic/mathematics, listening, speaking); thinking…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Competence
Lee Coll., Baytown, TX. – 1995
Project LEEWAY was implemented in July 1992 at Lee College, in Texas, to recruit low-income, academically disadvantaged single parents, displaced homemakers, and single pregnant women into nontraditional technical programs and provide necessary support services to ensure success. This report describes the implementation, components, and results of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Guidance, Community Colleges
Workforce Skills, 1994
This document consists of the four issues of the newsletter "Workforce Skills" published during 1994. This newsletter contains a variety of articles about Colorado's Community College and Occupational Education System (CCOES) and about work force skills training developed and delivered by community colleges. Each newsletter includes some…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges
Belcher, Marcia J. – 1993
In Florida, community colleges are required to report their entry-level basic skills testing results to the public school system in their service area. Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC) has been reporting that approximately 60% of Dade County Public School (DCPS) graduates cannot pass basic skills tests in math, writing, and reading. DCPS has…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Bound Students, College Freshmen, College Preparation
Delker, Paul V. – 1990
This Contractor Report was prepared as background information for OTA's assessment: "Worker Training: Competing in the New International Economy." A review of workplace basic skills research and practice identified factors contributing to success. The review of the research defined workplace basic skills and found that: (1) there was a scant…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Education Work Relationship
Marlowe, Mike; And Others – 1991
To improve basic skills instructor training in North Carolina's 58 community colleges, the Department of Community Colleges funded a 3-year Adult Basic Skills Training Project. It was designed to develop a cadre of local trainers who could meet the training and development needs of basic skills instructors at each community college. Adult basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
Reinertson, Jacquelyn – 1986
In 1982-83, a study conducted at Mott Community College (MCC) identified 322 students, or 6% of the student body, as "grossly skill deficient," (i.e., achieving at the junior high school level or below in all basic skill areas). In November 1985, the transcripts of those 322 students were assembled and analyzed to determine enrollment patterns and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Attendance Patterns, Basic Skills
Schulman, Sandra – 1981
This two-part report describes the developmental studies program at Los Angeles Pierce College (LAPC) and provides a summary of 1980-81 use figures and evaluations for LAPC's Study Skills Center. After noting the increasing need for developmental studies, the report indicates the methods used to assess students' reading, writing, and mathematics…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, English (Second Language)
Baum, Harold J. – 1981
After discussing the conclusions of a Congressional Budget Office study, which recommended that federal aid be redirected from colleges to secondary programs more directly related to job training, this paper examines the need to plan general and technical education within the framework of national productivity. The decreasing productivity rate of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Graduates, College Role, Community Colleges
Bergman, Irwin; Gerace, Robert – 1974
The academic records of over 2,000 students who were required as a result of their national percentile scores on the Cooperative English Examination to take a remediation course in reading and writing skills during their first semester at Queensborough Community College (New York) were compared to the academic records achieved by an equal number…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Community Colleges
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Olympia. – 2002
This document examines recent findings regarding minority access to education in the Washington Community and Technical Colleges. The paper details the colleges' goals in relation to the indicators for enrollment, student success, and employment. A review of the indicators suggests that the colleges are providing equitable access to college for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Basic Skills, College Faculty
Santa Barbara City Coll., CA. – 2001
This is a report on the institutional effectiveness assessment of Santa Barbara Community College (SBCC) (California) for the 2000-01 fiscal year. The report focuses on five main topics: student access, student success, human resources, fiscal resources, and physical resources. Report highlights include: (1) SBCC has shown an increase in student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Basic Skills
Georgia Univ., Athens. Dept. of Occupational Studies. – 1995
This document lists core standards and occupational knowledge and skills that have been identified and validated by industry as necessary to all Georgia students in secondary-level human services occupations programs. First, foundation skills are grouped as follows: basic skills (reading, writing, arithmetic/mathematics, listening, speaking);…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Competence
