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Download full textKroll, Ronald C. – 1990
The purpose of this project was to identify academic advising strategies that would be appropriate for the small, private college setting; to develop an academic advising system; and to implement the system through a trial model at Practical Bible Training School in Binghamton, New York. The model consisted of preservice and inservice training for…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Counseling Techniques, Faculty Advisers, Faculty Development
Baker, John – 1978
A questionnaire was administered to all 1978 fall quarter student athletes at Ohlone College (California) to assess their goals and needs, and to find out to what degree student experience matched expectation. There was an 86% (N=85) response rate from the varsity men and women teams (volleyball, field hockey, soccer, water polo, and football).…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletic Coaches, Athletics, Community Colleges
Ray, Barbara H. – 1977
The development and evaluation of a counseling model, the College Orientation Workshop for college-bound students, was investigated. A questionnaire was administered to juniors at Pensacola Catholic High School. Student responses to the questionnaire determined the number of students to participate in the workshop as well as the information…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, College Attendance, College Bound Students
Squizzero, William E. – 1976
Because of course difficulty and dryness, students of elementary accounting often have poor grades and manifest low interest and a 40-50% dropout rate. In answer to these problems, an experimental multimedia approach to teaching the accounting cycle was tested with 58 students against a control group of 62. Both groups consisted of male and female…
Descriptors: Accounting, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Conventional Instruction
Lilienthal, John – 1978
The Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) program (University of Hawaii) prepares community college instructors and administrators. To determine student characteristics, program effectiveness, and usefulness of training, 110 questionnaires were mailed to EPDA participants; 62 were returned. A student profile revealed: equal numbers of male…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, College Curriculum, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Haughey, Edmund J. – 1976
This practicum is a study of the student's perceptions of the effectiveness of the academic advising system at Bridgewater State College in the spring semester of 1976. The questionnaire used in the study was distributed at pre-registration for the fall semester to randomly selected students in the freshman and junior classes. The freshman…
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Freshmen, Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Evaluation
Lehnert, George R. – 1975
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provided a program of training courses in the prevention, reduction, and control of water pollution for personnel of federal, state, and local governmental agencies, private industries, and universities. A triangulation approach was pursued in the instrumentation concept. That is, three…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Course Evaluation, Data Analysis
Mussano, Frank – 1977
The effects of four two-hour study skills seminars on study organization, study techniques, and study motivation were investigated for 1977 fall semester resident freshmen at York College of Pennsylvania. Forty-four interested volunteers were divided equally into a treatment and control group on the basis of pretest scores on the Study Techniques…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Dropout Prevention
Hall, Robert A. – 1993
A research study looked at the effect of vocational training on the ability of 151 released felons who had successfully completed vocational training and were still under supervision, on parole, within New Hampshire. A literature review on recidivism and vocational education in corrections showed the value of vocational training in reducing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Career Choice, Correctional Education
Wambold, Suzanne – 1991
In 1991, a study was conducted of the Cardiovascular Technology program (CTP) at the University of Toledo, Community and Technical College (ComTech). The purpose of the study was to identify deficiencies in the cardiovascular course content that may have contributed to the failure rate among ComTech graduates who took the 1986 Cardiovascular…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes
Gee, Jerry Brooksher; Kilgore, Leonard L. – 1977
A study conducted at Louisiana State University was designed to: determine demographic characteristics of master's degree graduates in school administration in order to draw conclusions concerning identifying profiles; ascertain the extent to which the graduates perceived the courses of instruction in their academic preparation as relevant to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, College Graduates
Taylor, Helen L. Sally – 1978
A survey of Washington State community college early childhood education (ECE) graduates was conducted to discover whether they performed and were adequately trained to perform a variety of social and human services tasks. These include outreach, broker, evaluator, teacher, behavior modifier, mobilizer (promoting neighborhood programs),…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Community Colleges, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Luedtke, Cherry Beth – 1999
This project evaluates the status of distance learning at 54 public, two-year community, and technical colleges in Texas. Data was collected from the Web sites of each of the institutions. The Web site data indicted that 44 of the colleges refer specifically to distance education courses offered. To assess what student support services are…
Descriptors: Admissions Counseling, Community Colleges, Counseling Services, Distance Education
