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Zakir Khouj, Abdullah Mohammad; Ahmed Shami, Mohammad Ansar – 1982
The relationship between course loads of students and their grade point average (GPA) was studied at the Makkah Campus of Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia. Students from all six departments of the college of Shariah whose course loads were between 13 and 18 credit hours were studied and compared with students from the combined departments of…
Descriptors: College Credits, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Courses
Download full textHill, Susan; Owings, Maria – 1986
Courses taken for the bachelor's degrees are examined for specific majors and overall fields of study (i.e., education, humanities, social sciences, quantitative fields, and business). Analyses are based on college transcripts of 4,440 participants in the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. Majors in quantitative fields…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Business Administration Education, College Credits, College Curriculum
Peer reviewedNehiley, James M. – Journal of Applied Communications, 1998
A study to determine whether an Internet writing course would be useful for teaching as a distance learning option found that students who participated via the Internet submitted papers that were not as complete or as well organized as those participating in the classroom situation. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Credit Courses, Distance Education, Extension Education
Meltesen, Cal; Lucas, John A. – 1990
A study was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) to develop a profile of fall 1989 students, compare student and community demographic data, and analyze the percentage of community sub-groups served by the college. A random sample of 500 degree credit students (DCS's) and 300 non-degree credit students (NCS's) were surveyed,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Credits, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Meltesen, Cal; Lucas, J. A. – 1992
A study was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) in Palatine, Illinois, to develop a profile of fall 1991 students, compare student and community demographic data, and determine the percentage of various community sub-groups served by the college. A random sample of 500 degree credit students (DCS's), representing 3.2% of the DCS…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Credits, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Meltesen, Cal; Lucas, J. A. – 1993
A study was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) in Palatine, Illinois, to develop a profile of fall 1992 students, compare student and community demographic data, and determine the percentage of various community sub-groups served by the college. A random sample of 500 degree credit students (DCS's), representing 3.3% of the DCS…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Credits, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
PDF pending restorationMeltesen, Cal; Lucas, John A. – 1991
A study was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) in Palatine, Illinois, to develop a profile of fall 1990 students, compare student and community demographic data, and analyze the percentage of various community sub-groups served by the college. A random sample of 500 degree credit students (DCS's) and 300 non-degree credit students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Credits, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Lucas, John A.; Meltesen, Cal – 1994
A study was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) in Palatine, Illinois, to develop a profile of fall 1993 students, compare student and community demographic data, and determine the percentage of various community sub-groups served by the college. A random sample of 500 degree-credit students (representing 3.2% of the 15,518 students…
Descriptors: College Credits, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Continuing Education
Roberts, Anne – 1978
This study is a comparative analysis of undergraduate credit courses in library instruction, taught by university librarians and offered by ten State University of New York (SUNY) institutions--Albany, Brockport, Buffalo, Environmental Science and Forestry, New Paltz, Oneonta, Oswego, Plattsburgh, Stony Brook, and Upstate Medical. Topics include a…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Credit Courses, Librarians
Kruger, Larry A. – 2000
The Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) (Utah) implemented a concurrent enrollment program in the 1989-90 academic year that provides high school students with an opportunity to enroll in college-level courses and receive college and high school credit. This study evaluated enrollment data for students who had completed concurrent enrollment…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Credit Courses
Laughlin, J. Stanley – 1980
In an effort to determine current salary levels and other practices related to personnel teaching continuing education, a survey of 23 institutions in the Rocky Mountain West was conducted by the Office of Institutional Research at Idaho State University. It was found that most of these institutions provide compensation or remuneration to faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Compensation (Remuneration), Continuing Education
Oklahoma City Community Coll., OK. Office of Institutional Research. – 1992
These two research monographs profile fall 1991 and spring 1992 Oklahoma City Community College (OKCCC) students, respectively, comparing currently enrolled students to those from previous semesters. Each report provides a short narrative summary of findings and four data tables, presenting longitudinal enrollment figures beginning in spring 1986…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Credit Courses, Enrollment
Peer reviewedWood, Richard J. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1984
This study shows that a one-credit library research course designed around workbook/exercise module and bibliography assignment helps students learn library skills and results in improved attitude toward library. Pre/post tests were administered to experimental and control groups to assess skill and attitude level. Test and semantic differential…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Credit Courses, Higher Education
Mery, Pamela M. – 1995
The English as a Second Language (ESL) department is City College of San Francisco's (CCSF's) (California) largest department, offering both credit and non-credit classes and accounting for 3,993 credit students and 21,025 noncredit students in fall 1993. To gather data on Department success, a study was conducted to determine successful course…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Cuthbert, Rob – 1979
The matrix structure as an alternative to the departmental structure for colleges and universities is discussed, and the matrix system at Middlesex Polytechnic in England is used as illustration. The major impact of the introduction of a matrix structure is its effect on teaching activities within the institution. The matrix structure formally…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, College Administration, College Faculty
