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Sansregret, Marthe – 1986
In view of the importance of recognizing and documenting the prior learning of adult students returning to higher education, a project was undertaken to research, construct a system, and write materials for use in assessing the experiential learning acquired by students seeking access to higher education. An extensive research effort was…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, Educational Practices, Educational Trends
Maryland Univ., College Park. Div. of Student Affairs. – 1986
The satisfaction of University of Maryland College Park students was assessed as part of the Maryland Longitudinal Study. The College Student Satisfaction Questionnaire was used as a basis for determining satisfaction in the following areas: compensation, social life, working conditions, recognition, and quality of education. The results indicate…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Environment, College Freshmen, Educational Quality
Download full textCraddick, Jan – 1987
The Senior Seminar (Humanities 497) at Sheldon Jackson College, Alaska, is described. The focus of this interdisciplinary, division-taught course, is to develop a syllabus for the course using the product development guidelines of the Nova University (Florida) course, "Curriculum and Program Planning." The Senior Seminar is a requirement…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Seniors, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation
Weeks, Herschel P.; Bekkum, Victor A. – 1987
A project that trained four Egyptian graduates of agricultural engineering and mechanization in the field of local manufacturing processes in Iowa is described. With support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, training was conducted by Iowa State University and ALMACO (a small manufacturer of agricultural machines). Training…
Descriptors: Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Machinery, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs
Gorman, Margaret; And Others – 1982
The development of moral judgment of students was studied in two types of college courses requiring readings, lectures, and discussions. In one of the courses, students gained exposure to or served disadvantaged people; they combined reflection on this experience in the light of readings and lectures. The other course was a more traditional…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages
Stuessy, Carol L. – 1985
A model for the development of scientific reasoning in adolescents was formulated largely upon the basis of Piagetian theory. Included as potential determinants of scientific reasoning were: experience; age; locus of control; field dependence-independence (FID); rigidity/flexibility; intelligence quotient (IQ); and sex. Causal relationships…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Age, Cognitive Processes
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Direct linkCybinski, Patti; Selvanathan, Saroja – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2005
This project investigates the relationship between student performance, past mathematics experience, and perceptions of statistics education for two groups of university students studying statistics in different learning environments. One group received the traditional form of teaching with lectures, whereas the other group studied in a more…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Education, Statistics, College Students
Chickering, Arthur W. – 1977
Today's experiential learning rests on long and worthy traditions. But the university's emphasis on analytic, reflective, and theoretical studies and its neglect of concrete experiences, practical applications, and active experimentation have been equally long-standing. The learning cycle of concrete experience, observation and reflection,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Bibliographies, College Faculty, College Role
Hartwig, Gerald W., Ed.; And Others – 1977
This publication contains frank discussions of intercultural educators' high and low points in North Carolina during the past five years. Since the fall of 1971 the social studies curriculum for the public schools of North Carolina has specifically included the study of Africa and Asia. There are seven articles. The first article discusses why and…
Descriptors: African Culture, Asian Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Curriculum Development
Pang, Dawn B. – 1981
This paper focuses on the structure, process, and accomplishments during the first two years of the Developing Interculturally Skilled Counselors (DISC) project, which trains and supervises eight pre-doctoral trainees for one-year appointments in the areas of intercultural awareness, knowledge, and skill. Objectives of the project are listed and…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Course Descriptions, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness
PDF pending restorationPaschke, Barbara P. – 1981
A survey designed to predict freshman attrition was developed and tested at the University of Kansas. The 75-item survey, the Entering Freshman Survey, was administered to a uniform random sample of one-half of the freshmen entering the university in the fall 1979 semester or entering in the summer 1979 term and reenrolling in the fall. Based on…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attitude Measures, College Freshmen, Dropout Attitudes
Standley, Nancy V. – 1978
Attitudes and perceptions held by white students enrolled in black colleges were studied to determine their educational and personal experiences at the institutions, their feelings about the impact they had on the institutions, and to provide data that could be helpful to the institutions as they move toward becoming multi-cultural. For purposes…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Desegregation, College Environment, College Students
Research Triangle Inst., Durham, NC. Center for Educational Research and Evaluation. – 1973
The conceptual model of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) has been modified from James Trent's General Educational Development Model. The NLS model is presented and briefly compared with the General Educational Development Model. The major portion of this document consists of NLS questionnaire items or…
Descriptors: Followup Studies, Goal Orientation, High School Graduates, High Schools
Bell, Anita Iris – 1978
This study investigated the possibility that the effectiveness of an educational program for an individual student is dependent on his or her background. A 101-item biographical data questionnaire was administered to the parents of 43 Follow Through and 38 non-Follow Through students who had just finished the third grade. The biographical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biographical Inventories, Compensatory Education, Environmental Influences
STORER, MARJORIE; AND OTHERS – 1967
TO DETERMINE WHETHER GRADUATES HAD BEGUN TO REALIZE THEIR ASPIRATIONS AND TO ASSESS THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF CHICAGO CITY COLLEGE (CCC) TO THEIR PRESENT STATUS, DATA FROM A 55 PERCENT RESPONSE TO A QUESTIONNAIRE 15 MONTHS AFTER GRADUATION WERE COMPARED WITH A STUDY CONDUCTED IMMEDIATELY AFTER GRADUATION. THE INVENTORY IDENTIFIES THOSE GRADUATES…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Curriculum Evaluation, Followup Studies
