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Green, Harriett E.; Lamprin, Patricia – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
Researchers increasingly engage with the digital archives built by libraries, archives, and museums, but many institutions still seek to learn more about researchers' needs and practices with these digital collections. This paper presents a user assessment study for "Emblematica Online," a research digital library that provides digitized…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Archives, Use Studies, Case Studies
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Cory, Suzanne N.; Hernandez, Abigail R. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2014
This study measures moral disengagement of undergraduate business and humanities students with a focus on differences in moral disengagement between genders. Students completed a survey that consisted of 32 statements and were asked to determine the degree to which they agreed with each, using a 7-point Likert scale. The questions measured moral…
Descriptors: Humanities Instruction, Humanities, Business Administration Education, Ethics
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Office of Federal Relations and Instructional Services. – 1986
Responding to the Colorado State Board of Education's request for recommendations concerning the need to improve humanities instruction and its relationship to the development of higher-order thinking skills, this task force report specifies a scope for humanities teaching; defines higher-order thinking skills as the ability to judge information,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Humanities
Blair, R. Clifford; Fitzgerald, Morgan E. – 1974
The 44 questions of the Largo Junior School Humanities Attitude Scale attempt to measure student attitudes about the study of humanities. The scale is composed of three subscales which measure whether students view the humanities class as an enjoyable experience, the study of humanities as being worthwhile, and the humanities of the past as being…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Course Evaluation, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Research
Muyskens, Lois – 1990
In 1990, the Dallas County Community College District's (DCCCD's) Computer Center recruited three technology scouts (faculty members interested in media) to locate, preview, and evaluate multimedia products that could be used in the classroom. The technology scout for the humanities found and previewed products that could be used in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Technology, Humanities, Humanities Instruction
American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1988
A discussion is provided of the contributions of the study of the humanities towards the improvement of community college occupational education. After section I provides background information on the creation of a Shared Vision Task Force by the National Council for Occupational Education (NCOE) and the Community College Humanities Association…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Associate Degrees, College Curriculum, Community Colleges
Conley, Valerie M.; Zimbler, Linda J. – 1997
The report focuses on the demographic characteristics, employment characteristics, workload, productivity, compensation, and attitudes of full-time instructional faculty teaching humanities at 4-year institutions of higher education in the fall of 1992. Data tables cover the humanities generally and specific program areas of English and…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Business Education, Colleges, Comparative Analysis