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Direct linkOldham, Todd M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Workforce practitioners within community colleges are increasingly faced with pressures from business and industry to offer academic and career oriented programs targeted to the workforce needs of local industry. Most recently, there has been a call from both industry and the White House for community colleges to complete more students in…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Vocational Education, Community Colleges, Success
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Download full textBaker, William J.; Czarnocha, Bronislaw; Dias, Olen; Doyle, Kathleen; Kennis, James R. – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2012
In the United States a majority of the students who enroll in community colleges require a review of secondary math before they are eligible for college level mathematics. In the pre-algebra course, that has a high drop-out rate, the most difficult topic for students is fractions. In order to better understand the fraction concept, Kieren…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Adult Students, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges
Grachan, Bart – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Community colleges are disproportionally over-enrolled with both low income students and students of color, while four-year institutions are under-enrolled with the same groups. The vast majority of these students enter the community college with a goal of transferring to the four-year institutions they were unable to access from high school, yet…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Mixed Methods Research, Urban Universities, Outreach Programs
Suárez-Orozco, Carola; Casanova, Saskias; Martin, Margary; Katsiaficas, Dalal; Cuellar, Veronica; Smith, Naila Antonia; Dias, Sandra Isabel – Educational Researcher, 2015
In this article we share exploratory findings from a study that captures microaggressions (MAs) in vivo to shed light on how they occur in classrooms. These brief and commonplace indignities communicate derogatory slights and insults toward individuals of underrepresented status contributing to invalidating and hostile learning experiences. Our…
Descriptors: Aggression, Interpersonal Relationship, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Bleffert-Schmidt, Anita – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Blended learning has sometimes been called the "best of both worlds," combining the advantages of face-to-face instruction with the advantages of online learning. It has been in existence for over a decade, and more research needed to be done to determine its efficacy and desirability for community colleges. The goal of this dissertation…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Community Colleges, College Students, Learning Experience
Holland, Rochelle – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
This explanatory case study researched the writing experiences of 11 community college students who differed subculturally and who were all part of the African diasporic community. The theoretical perspectives used for this study were Arthur Chickering's (1969) classical concept of academic competence and community dialect theory (Baxter &…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Educational Attainment, Academic Achievement, Black Dialects
