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Download full textBute, Monte – Educational Foundations, 2017
In a seven-year study of new experimental colleges, Grant and Riesman (1978) report that within those schools "The utopian impulses are strong, representing a search for a more perfect union." One of the most radical of those experiments was Minnesota Metropolitan State College (MMSC). In addition to having no campus, the school had no…
Descriptors: State Colleges, Experimental Colleges, Educational Innovation, Experimental Curriculum
SCHELLER, THOMAS G. – 1967
IN FALL 1963, ALL FRESHMEN ENTERING THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA GENERAL COLLEGE TOOK THE DIAGNOSTIC READING TEST, AND FROM THEM A 110-STUDENT EXPERIMENTAL GROUP AND A SIMILAR CONTROL GROUP WERE RANDOMLY SELECTED. THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP STUDENTS WERE ASKED TO ENROLL IN A 1-UNIT EDUCATIONAL SKILLS COURSE, WHICH 67 COMPLETED. READING PRETEST SCORES…
Descriptors: Experimental Curriculum, Higher Education, Predictive Measurement, Pretests Posttests
O'Neill, John H. – The General College Studies, 1969
After a first experiment dealing with poverty in the Twin Cities (ED 028 781), a second was undertaken to examine race relations. As the problem was immediately important, materials would be plentiful. Four courses (speech, composition, social studies, literature) and three instructors dealt exclusively with this 2-quarter, 16-credit project. The…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Black Attitudes, Experimental Curriculum, Social Studies
