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Direct linkCampbell, Rebecca; Blankenship, Benjamin – To Improve the Academy, 2021
Institutions are redesigning gateway courses--lower-division courses known to create student success bottlenecks--to influence persistence and completion goals. These initiatives, student success course redesigns (SSCR), are specialized versions of course design institutes (CDIs). This investigation into SSCRs uses content analysis to examine the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Implementation, Academic Achievement, Introductory Courses
Download full textHughes, Haning Z. – Dimension, 2019
Foreign language (FL) acquisition requires not only the development of target language skills, but also a cultural understanding of the region and its people. While this article addresses the development of an advanced Chinese language and culture course using film, the principles illustrated can be adapted for use in other advanced-level FL…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Tang, Rong; Sae-Lim, Watinee – Education for Information, 2016
In this study, an exploratory content analysis of 30 randomly selected Data Science (DS) programs from eight disciplines revealed significant gaps in current DS education in the United States. The analysis centers on linguistic patterns of program descriptions, curriculum requirements, and DS course focus as pertaining to key skills and domain…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Higher Education, Content Analysis, Program Descriptions
PDF pending restorationMackay, Ronald – Edutec, 1975
The aim of this article is to explain what the term "languages for special purposes" means and what it does not mean, to outline the rationale for such a branch of language teaching and to indcate some of the problems it poses for syllabus planners and course designers. Four principal types of problems and considerations are identified and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Course Content, Curriculum Design
Wales, M. L. – 1993
A discussion of the content of workplace English programs for limited-English-speaking immigrants to Australia focuses on the proportions of general and work-specific course content in those programs. It draws, in part, on results of a 1989 study of one workplace English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) program. It is proposed that reasons for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Course Content, Curriculum Design
Crossler-Laird, Jannie; O'Reilly, Ed; Roelofsae, Gary; Terpin, Mark – 1993
The curriculum is designed for teachers of limited-English-proficient auto parts sales personnel, and consists of seven instructional modules focusing on automotive vocabulary and job-related communication skills. The curriculum begins with an extensive automotive vocabulary list. Outlines of the instructional modules follow, each containing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Auto Parts Clerks, Classroom Communication, College Instruction
Shaw, Thomas; And Others – 1994
Excerpts from interviews with 30 Asian high school students concerning their acculturation to the American classroom are presented and discussed. The students had been in the United States for no more than 2 years, and were here for a variety of reasons, including extended visits with relatives to temporary appointments of their parents to U.S.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment
