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Download full textMensch, Scott – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2013
When offering online classes, it is necessary to ensure that all course material and objectives will be covered and learners will be successful in the course. This becomes especially important when the same class material and objectives are offered in a three-, five-, and fourteen-week format. This paper outlines the difficulty of delivering…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Program Length, Problem Solving, Delivery Systems
Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, 2010
The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) provides the Summary of Key Operating Statistics (KOS) as an annual review of the performance and key measurements of the more than 800 private post-secondary institutions we accredit. This edition of the KOS contains information based on the 2009 Annual Institutional Reports…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Statistical Data, Program Length, Outcomes of Education
Topper, Amy – Achieving the Dream, 2011
Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, this issue of "Data Notes" investigates the number of attempts it takes students to complete all developmental education courses to which they are referred. Subsequent gateway course completion and overall persistence are also examined. Three-year outcomes were analyzed and…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, English Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Correlation
Malagon, Helen; McCold, Paul; Nelson, Joan Johnston – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2013
This report provides an update on the Transitional Bilingual Instruction Program (TBIP). In 2012-13, 104,025 English language learners (ELLs) received state services through the TBIP. This was an increase of just over 9% from the previous year. Most students live in urban areas along Interstate 5 corridor and in rural areas like the Yakima Valley.…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Bilingual Education, English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction
Pelkonen, Panu – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2009
It is possible that human capital produces positive externalities to the society indirectly, through non-market channels such as health or crime. Another such channel could be the effect of education on the functioning of democratic decision-making. Measures of the functioning of democracy are bound to be controversial, but one such measure--voter…
Descriptors: Evidence, Municipalities, Human Capital, School Restructuring
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2008
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and institutional descriptions suggest that there might be an…
Descriptors: Evidence, Apprenticeships, Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning
