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Download full textNational Survey of Student Engagement, 2012
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) documents dimensions of quality in undergraduate education and provides information and assistance to colleges, universities, and other organizations to improve student learning. Its primary activity is annually surveying college students to assess the extent to which they engage in educational…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Student Surveys, Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement
Peer reviewedBorden, Victor M. H. – Change, 2004
The term "student swirl" was coined by Alfredo de los Santos and Irene Wright in 1990, along with the term "double-dipping" (concurrent enrollment at two institutions), to characterize the back-and-forth, multi-institutional attendance pattern common among students attending community colleges. However, traditional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Practices, Curriculum Development, Transfer Students
Catterall, James S. – 1983
This analysis is the seventh of a series of seven reports on the ways that the urban fiscal crisis has affected children. The fiscal containment imposed on California schools after the enactment of Proposition 13 in 1978 has resulted in changes in urban high school curricula over the past five years. A telephone survey of school personnel and…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Economic Factors, Educational Finance
Ramer, Maureen H. – 1991
In community college/high school 2 + 2 programs, a four-year program of technical training is begun in the last two years of high school and continued through two years of community college. In spite of a growing interest in such programs, current efforts have been limited to course articulation in which prerequisites for two-year college courses…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, Community Colleges
Kirst, Michael W. – 1983
Because current fiscal constraints call for inexpensive approaches to achieving equity, school finance research should, in addition to engaging in traditional analysis, address the relationship of curriculum and instruction to equity and economic efficiency. Problems of equity are posed by curriculum decisions and classroom management techniques…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Nowak, Jon; Hiatt, Diana Buell – 1986
This study focuses on vocational education curriculum and staffing changes among California school districts as a result of 1983 state back-to-basics educational reform legislation (Hughes-Hart Educational Reform Act of 1983). Data were gathered from 1981-86, beginning with baseline data two years prior to, during, and two years after legislation.…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends
