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Von Donyal Locklear – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Developmental education is critical in the future of higher education and for the large numbers of college and university students entering higher education. Developmental education sometimes carries a negative connotation, one that is misappropriated to developmental education itself, the students, and the colleges or universities they attend.…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Remedial Instruction, Community College Students, English Instruction
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Kim, Peter – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2019
Energy Conservation Theory of Second Language Acquisition (ECT-L2A) (Han, Bao, & Wiita, 2017b), an interdisciplinary theory juxtaposing a physics perspective and an applied linguistics perspective, conceptualizes individuals' ultimate attainment as a function of dynamic transformation of endogenous and exogenous energies throughout the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Prediction
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Basjaruddin, Noor Cholis; Rakhman, Edi – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2016
Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary that includes a combination of mechanics, electronics, control systems, and computer science. The main objective of mechatronics learning is to establish a comprehensive mindset in the development of mechatronic systems. Project Based Learning (PBL) is an appropriate method for use in the learning process of…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Active Learning, Student Projects, Mechanics (Physics)
Doren, Andrew T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Community colleges have multiple missions and one of them is to provide open access services to those seeking to further their education. Community colleges provide remedial courses in math, reading, and writing because many of their students do not meet entrance requirements in these core subjects. However, the usual developmental education track…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs, Models
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Liu, Chien-Jen; Yang, Shu Ching – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2014
This study used the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model proposed by Garrison to investigate students' level of knowledge construction in asynchronous discussions. The participants included 36 senior students (27 males) majoring in information management. The students attended 18 weeks of an online information ethics course. In this study, four types…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Technical Institutes, Communities of Practice, Inquiry
Clements, Frank T., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This applied dissertation was designed to ascertain information about the quality of the e-learning program at a local community college as measured against a set of best practices established by the Commission on Institutions for Higher Education (CIHE). The problem was that, although the subject college's administrators mandated that the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Quality, Community Colleges, Best Practices
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Orsuwan, Meechai – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
This paper examines two topics understudied in higher education: the within group diversity of ethnic subgroups subsumed by the label Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) and minority-serving institutions. Using structural equation modeling, this paper examines the college pathways of community college students in Hawai'i through the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Structural Equation Models, Pacific Islanders, Interaction