Uses data from a national study of science instruction in community colleges to explore instructional methods and media use in terms of effects on attrition, media production facilities and assistance used, and locally developed materials. Reveals that lecture is the predominant teaching method and media have little effect on attrition. (DMM)

Assesses the results of introducing individualized learning contracts (ILCs), journal writing, and journal sharing into a computer literacy course at Prince George's Community College, focusing on the effects on student satisfaction and student success rates. (DMM)

Underscores the importance of police officers understanding mental retardation when dealing with mentally retarded offenders. Describes a study comparing the effectiveness of two instructional methods for increasing officer knowledge about the mentally retarded. Discusses implications for police educators and ways of identifying mentally retarded…

Reviews the Collin County Community College District's efforts to emphasize active, experiential learning by providing "hands on" laboratory experiences in most courses, plus internships and cooperative work experiences beyond the classroom. Highlights the fluid and individualized nature of the experiential component, accommodating faculty and…

Reviews second-language learning literature concerning factors which may affect adult students. Focuses on cognitive mechanisms, cerebral dominance theories, formal operations, motivation, and second-language teaching and learning. Offers suggestions for community college teaching and programs. (DMM)

Explains how videodiscs operate and why they should be an integral part of the training community colleges provide. Describes the technology of videodiscs as superior to videotapes because of durability and random access capabilities. Discusses model instructional approaches, and reviews an educational interactive videodisc system. (PAA)

Describes a study of teaching techniques used by faculty at a large midwestern community college and the student learning outcomes they sought to accomplish. Lecture predominated, though most faculty also used other methods. Faculty who mostly used techniques other than lecture sought to achieve higher order learning objectives. (DMM)

Describes a study conducted at Florida Community College in Jacksonville to examine the relationship between students' learning style awareness and academic achievement and to determine whether completion of a learning style inventory by a sample of 78 anatomy students would affect academic achievement. (DMM)

Describes a study of the effect of adjusting teaching methods to coincide with the learning preferences of students enrolled in a small, predominantly Black, community college. Reveals that students in the group in which teaching strategies matched learning styles had higher achievement gains than students taught with the lecture method. (DMM)

Compares the use of individualized self-paced and traditional instructional methods in elementary accounting, evaluating various student characteristics (i.e., age, sex, college grade point average, previous college-level business courses taken, prior work experience, and aptitude test scores) as predictors of student success under the…

Describes a study conducted to investigate the learning styles of Native American students enrolled in college-level biology courses at College of DuPage (IL); to implement pedagogical changes based on resulting data; and to develop suggestions for science curriculum modifications. (AYC)

Draws from a nationwide survey of community college humanities instructors to profile the course aims and instructional practices of literature instructors. Focuses on teaching experience, highest degree held, instructional objectives, teaching methods, evaluation methods preferred, and the perceived importance of various student abilities. (DMM)

Reports on a study of the characteristics, learning objectives, ratings of the helpfulness of various learning methods, self-evaluation in such areas as intellectual curiosity, academic ability, motivation, and reading/writing/speaking ability of adult women attending either a weekend college credit program (n=75) or a noncredit community service…

Explores computer-related crime, possible causes for the dramatic increase in criminal activity in the last 20 years, and the moral standards of the computer criminal. Discusses the responsiblity of community colleges to teach individuals the moral implications inherent in the use of computers. Suggests objectives for a course dealing with these…