This chapter is a case study of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's Pathways [TM] program. The goal of the Statway [Registered Trademark] and Quantway [Registered Trademark] pathways is to improve the success rate of community college students who place into developmental mathematics. What makes these programs unique is…

Faculty development programs should help professionals to encourage in students not only a mastery of a body of knowledge but also a familiarity with various modes of knowing. (Author/KE)

Tests the effect of developmental level objectives on student achievement and efficiency in a zoology course. These objectives were found to have no significant effect on achievement, but they did significantly increase student efficiency in learning the content material of the module. (Author)

This guide was developed to fill a need identified by high school educators and Alberta Advanced Education and Technology staff. The Guide introduces students to the principles of career and education planning and various authorized Alberta resources by helping students work through the planning process. The student guide is a series of modules or…

When it opened in 1963, most of the University of Missouri at St. Louis faculty had little or no prior experience in higher education. Faculty and staff development during the first 15 years were based on: (1) individual goal setting; (2) learning where development opportunities existed for accomplishing those goals, the discipline to accomplish…

Evaluation is as basic to professional development as it is to education. Unfortunately, systematic evaluations of professional development programs are rarely, if ever, undertaken. Professional development has become polluted by extraordinarily presumptuous rhetoric about the intrinsic value of "development." In the recent flurry of…

This conference explores the implication of quality and person-centered revolutions in higher education. Specific objectives are to: (1) identify who the new learners are and how to diagnose their abilities and needs; (2) hear distinguished educators discuss possible nontraditional institutional responses to new learners; (3) examine a variety of…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a Brazilian definition of national education goals. It suggests the adoption of a philosophy of education that will provide a pattern of the kind of education needed in Brazil, namely a combination of modern humanistic culture and technology, by taking into account the…

Community colleges play an important role in the U.S. economy, providing access to higher education for low-income young people, a path to higher-earning employment for low-income workers, and a supply of well-trained employees for local industry. In order to remain competitive with other major economies, however, the U.S. must sharply increase…

This report is prepared in accordance to state law requiring the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) to prepare a biennial report for submission to the Nevada State Legislature that outlines a plan for new programs and expansions of existing programs of instruction, public service and research. This report highlights the strategic objectives…

A preparatory business program was developed to allow educationally disadvantaged business students enrolled in developmental studies (remedial reading, English, and math courses) to obtain a full course load of twelve or more hours without having to enroll in regular business courses. To develop a model business preparatory program for adaptation…

An innovative social studies teacher education program at the University of Tubingen, West Germany, is described. The problems, aims, and structure of the course of study as well as general theories of learning in West Germany are discussed and these educational phenomena are compared with their American counterparts. The paper is presented in…

This book traces the history of the Servicemembers Opportunity College (SOC) program, which allows military personnel to obtain civilian education at more that 1,000 designated community colleges, technical institutes, and four-year institutions nationwide. Among the topics discussed in this history of the SOC program's development as the…