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Millard, Thomas L. – 1986
An innovative program developed and implemented at Montclair State College in New Jersey was designed to maximize students' writing potential within the framework of course requirements across the curriculum. Based on the assumption that the written expression of ideas and the critical thinking skills associated with writing are fundamental to all…
Descriptors: Essays, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation, Interdisciplinary Approach
Hoetker, James; And Others – 1982
The efforts of researchers to produce a pool of approximately 30 validated and field-tested topics for use in future administrations of the Florida Teacher Certification Examination in writing are reviewed in this paper. Various sections of the paper (1) describe the procedures followed; (2) explain the reasons for making certain important…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Higher Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Program Development
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Hake, Rosemary – Journal of Basic Writing, 1978
Recounts the rationale, development, construction, and design of an essay examination format that accounts for teacher differences and provides some objectivity in observation and measurement that is usually lacking in such writing examinations. Notes that one of the features of the format is computer readable scoring. (RL)
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, English Instruction, Essay Tests, Evaluation
Blanchard, Lydia – 1987
An alternative curriculum for Freshman Composition, designed to help students develop cognitive skills useful for academic writing in other courses, involves eight discipline-specific assignments, building from relatively simple writing tasks such as taking lecture notes and keeping an academic journal, through book reports, essay examinations,…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Content Area Writing, Essays, Freshman Composition
Williford, Miriam, Ed. – 1994
This book contains individual essays and series of essays about fundamental issues in prison education. The following individual essays are included: "The Paradox of Higher Education in Prisons" (Jones, d'Errico); "A Brief History of Prison Higher Education in the United States" (Silva); "The Scope and Diversity of Prison…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Curriculum, Delivery Systems
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Sikand, Jack – 1976
Defining Native studies programs in Canada and the U.S., this essay presents: (1) Rationale for Native Studies (recognition on the part of the majority of cultural differences; the emergence of an affirmative Native identity; and declining enrollments in colleges); (2) Structural Organization Alternatives (as part of an existing department; as an…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Canada Natives, Change Strategies
Medina, Suzanne; Wenzell, Vanessa – MEXTESOL Journal, 1996
This article presents a summary and analysis of a year-long project to develop an English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) tutoring lab at California State Dominguez Hills. The project had as its main goal the establishment of a lab specifically targeting the rapidly growing population of non-native speakers of English on campus, and was developed with…
Descriptors: Budgets, Classroom Techniques, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Strategies