The City of London Polytechnic offers a number of part-time courses leading to qualifications awarded by professional associations and similar examining bodies. The majority of the courses are taught by the departments of accounting and finance, banking and insurance, transport studies, and marketing. There are also courses in biological sciences,…

In 1987-88, a national survey was conducted to determine the adult/continuing education (ACE) policies and practices of large, urban community colleges. Questionnaires were mailed to ACE deans at 74 colleges, requesting information about program characteristics, funding sources, personnel, curriculum review, and marketing and publicity. Study…

This report presents statistics on the 107 university libraries and 12 independent research libraries that were members of the ARL (Association of Research Libraries) during the 1987-88 fiscal year. Data are reported in alphabetical and rank order on collections (volumes in library, gross and net volumes added, monographs purchased, current…

Curriculum mapping activities can be useful in analyzing curriculum goals and planning curriculum revision. This document is specifically designed using the Science Education Curriculum Goals articulated by the State of Oregon for grade 8. The goal areas include concepts, processes, manipulative skills, interests, values, interactions and…

The goal of this monograph is to explain the evaluation program designed by Schaumburg Community Consolidated District 54, Schaumberg, Illinois. It discusses the process used in the development of the model, the product, the implication for classroom teachers and the effects of using an evaluation to assess science process skills. The process…

Accessibility to Ontario universities in 1984 was studied to replicate a 1983 study. The study population consisted of 7,798 Ontario secondary school students who were qualified to seek admission to an Ontario university in fall 1984 but who failed to register. To identify acceptance and rejection patterns, data are provided on: the number of…

Project Basic Effective Strategies for Teaching (BEST) is a long-range three-year staff development program designed to provide teachers and administrators in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District with a common language and instructional plan. It is applicable to all subject areas and at all grade levels. This document contains the final…

A study examined the affiliations between adult basic education programs and business, industry, and unions in the 50 States and the District of Columbia. Of the 47 state directors of adult education who returned the mail questionnaire, 31 reported formal affiliations and 5 reported informal affiliations with businesses and/or unions in their…

A survey of the employers of the 1980 career graduates of Dundalk Community College (DCC) was conducted to evaluate the college's instructional programs and to assess the extent to which DCC assisted graduates in their preparation for career employment. Questionnaires were sent to 73 employers of career and non-career graduates in early 1981.…

Structured interviews were conducted by selected vocational education instructors at Indian Hills Community College (IHCC) to determine current and projected employment and training needs of private-sector businesses with 200 employees or less and to assess opinions of IHCC programs. Employers were asked to provide information on the number of…

Background, methodology, and findings are summarized from a survey of California community colleges, which was designed to ascertain current and proposed policies and practices with respect to identifying and assisting potential transfer students, and maintaining effective articulation or liaison with high schools and baccalaureate-granting…

This report describes and assesses the effectiveness of activities conducted by the University of Toledo (Ohio)/Springfield Local Schools Teacher Corps Project. On-site staff development activities provided for elementary and secondary school teachers are described: (1) two credit-bearing courses on alternative education programs for mainstreamed…

During the spring 1981 semester, Quinebaug Valley Community College (QVCC) conducted a survey of high school students and influential members of the community to obtain assessments of the need for various academic programs at QVCC. Questionnaires were distributed to nine high schools, where juniors and seniors were asked to indicate their possible…

Writing to Read is an instructional system with a language experience approach to developing early writing and reading skills for primary children. Designed for a laboratory setting, the system consists of computerized phoneme instruction, 10 student workbooks, and language development activities that emphasize writing as a preliminary activity to…

The undergraduate curricula of 10 San Francisco Bay Area colleges were evaluated to determine how students are being prepared for an increasingly internationalized world. The Higher Education Foreign Language and International Studies Survey (included as an appendix to this study) was distributed to each institution in the sample. To assess…