This annual newsletter contains updates on the latest Community College Research Center (CCRC) research, new publications and details of upcoming presentations at major conferences. The feature article in this issue, "Strategies for Increasing Student Success," by Thomas Bailey, summarizes the discussion found in the CCRC Assessment of Evidence…

This article presents a summary of the main findings of a national literature review completed as part of a larger study of basic skills effective practices. The study summarized here was commissioned by the California Community Colleges System Office with the purpose of conducting a comprehensive review of national literature and identifying…

The author presents observations on sports development programs in the Soviet Union, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany. (MJB)

Gives statistics on the number of hours devoted to formal training for employees in various job categories. Also examines those courses most often and least often offered to employees across various industries. (JB)

Describes activities at Junto III in Louisville, which was held so that AAACE (American Association for Adult and Continuing Education) members would be involved in clarifying and developing recommendations on major issues that should be addressed by the association and, at the same time, provide for some measure of continuity in the membership of…

Argues that the developmental training imperative implicit in the counseling literature should be taken seriously, through more concentrated efforts to articulate the specifics of counselor education along developmental lines. Presents a constructive-developmental theoretical framework and describes its incorporation into two-core theory classes…

The author gives a summary of community development programs and training. He then gives a list of publications dealing with the training of community development workers. (MR)

The authors describe some of the events preceding and supporting the beginning development of contingency management" and explain some of the applications of contingency management. (Authors/AA)

Proposes an anticipatory strategy that will help protect education sector development from corruption. The strategy, which may exist as a "hidden agenda" within a project, focuses on diagnosing rather than redressing a system thought to be corrupt, adopting prevention rather than punishment, informal rather than formal approaches, and…

One of the challenges for educators is composing well-written, specifically stated outcomes of student learning. Developmental teacher training is a program designed to improve the effectiveness of university instructors. The program focuses on improving course methodology by guiding instructors through the development of correctly written and…

United States schools are not providing students with the mathematical background necessary to compete on an international level and become successful adults. Recently, educators and researchers have focused on learning what factors might attribute to this lack of mathematical knowledge. However, few studies have searched for answers from the…

The universal emphasis in mathematics education on teaching and learning for understanding can require substantial paradigmatic shifts for many elementary school teachers. Consequently, a pressing goal of teacher preparation programs should be the facilitation of these changes during program experiences. This longitudinal, mixed methods study…

Four elements contribute to a classroom's success or failure as a learning environment: student needs, instructor approach, course content, and institutional setting. This chapter discusses the challenge of aligning these elements in the developmental classroom.

The author works as a developmental writing instructor and tutor at a community college. She loves to write, to carve out some time to do what she spends her days teaching others to do. The author states that her becoming a teacher has made her life less her own. For her, teacher is all-absorbing. Yet, her life is not depleted by teaching; rather,…

Since their inception in the early 60s community colleges have been touted for their ability to provide access to underserved and underprepared students across the nation. Dwindling resources and competing interests increasingly challenge the open door policy. Today, colleges must provide programs that not only provide access, but also provide…