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Outcalt, Charles – 1999
This digest describes community college honors programs with regard to their origins and goals, consistency with institutional missions, and effectiveness. Potential goals for honors programs at community colleges include: (1) providing advanced students an opportunity to learn more than they would in a non-honors curriculum; (2) retaining a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Honors Curriculum
Pharness, Gary – 1991
Despite increasing awareness of the need for workplace literacy programs to focus on adults' personal needs and interests and on long-term employment needs, many worker education programs for adults learning English as a Second Language continue to limit themselves to specific training for particular jobs. The Hastings Institute, Inc., a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Program Descriptions
Smith, Carl B., Ed. – 2003
The research reviewed in this topical bibliography and commentary generally pursues two lines of inquiry: what exactly information literacy is, and how educators can apply theories of information literacy to the day-to-day problems of elementary and middle-school students. The research contains a particular emphasis on the inability of current…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
Barnett, Harvey – 2003
The goal of any professional development program is to inform and change teacher behavior as a result of new information. Professional development activities need to be designed in a way that ensures that teachers' time and your investment in time and money pay off in increased student achievement. Getting teacher buy in is important when…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Professional Development, Program Effectiveness
Schwartz, Wendy – 1995
Although learning the value of being nonviolent at home is very important, school and community programs are also valuable, because participants can work together to prevent violence in their neighborhoods and can help each other avoid violence. Education programs can include conflict resolution and mediation training as school courses. Crime…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Conflict Resolution, Crime, Curriculum
Abell, Arianne – 1999
This digest defines interdisciplinary courses, presents the benefits and challenges of offering them in the community college, and describes six existing interdisciplinary courses at community colleges around the country. Interdisciplinary courses are characterized by the following: they tend to be highly innovative; they incorporate concepts and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Design, Educational Change
Greenawald, G. Dale; Superka, Douglas P. – 1982
A general evaluation model and workshop activities to help law-related education (LRE) project personnel develop and implement evaluation plans for their projects are provided. The model and activities, however, are applicable to other areas of the social studies as well. The first section of the handbook presents a model for evaluating LRE…
Descriptors: Activities, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Schwartz, Wendy – 1999
Communities, frequently with government and school assistance, can implement programs that help teenage and young adult males develop into caring and responsible fathers. This digest briefly describes program components shown to be most effective. Effective programs take account of ethnic differences and use culturally sensitive outreach…
Descriptors: Career Development, Counseling, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development
McCarthy, J. Christopher – 1995
The Project for Adult College Education (PACE) is a general education core curriculum designed for working adults. PACE students receive approximately half the classroom hours in each subject area that they would in a traditional classroom. The balance of time is devoted to viewing course-related instructional television and participating in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Colleges
Banaszak, Ronald A. – 1987
Educators should assess the economics curricula in order to determine whether the latest and most accurate views of economic life in the United States and the world are taught to high school students. Economic literacy involves knowing and applying fundamental economic theories in order to make rational decisions about the use of limited…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Evaluation
Holbrook, Hilary Taylor – 1984
Intended for administrators and policy makers as well as teachers, this digest explores the components common to effective writing programs. The digest first discusses activities at the classroom level as the foundation of a successful writing program and elements that should be included in classroom instruction, such as the process approach to…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Content Area Writing, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Imel, Susan – 2002
A form of group learning, cohorts, has become increasingly attractive to administrators, instructors, and participants in adult education. Basic academic skills cohort learning supports three types of knowing: instrumental, socializing, and self-authoring; whereas, in higher and adult education cohort learning, the development of critical…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Adult Development, Adult Education
Howe, Robert W.; Warren, Charles R. – 1988
This digest provides information on determining the effectiveness of school mathematics programs. The purposes for developing accountability programs and characteristics of good mathematics programs are listed. State goals and objectives and standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics have furthered the production of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2002
Recent educational approaches that have career and technical education (CTE) components have integrated work-based learning (WBL) with traditional academics. Among positive effects of the association between WBL and secondary students' educational outcomes are: (1) increased attendance, (2) decreased dropout rates, (3) increased number of academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Career Academies, Career Education
Rifkin, Tronie; Georgakakos, John Harry – 1996
In 1991, a study was conducted at Riverside City College (RCC), in California, to determine the development of science reasoning among students. A science reasoning test was administered at the beginning and again at the end of fall 1991 to two samples: a college-wide sample of 843 students enrolled in one of 55 courses, and a science-oriented…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
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