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Morreale, Sherwyn P.; Myers, Scott A.; Wang, Tiffany R.; Westwick, Joshua N. – Communication Education, 2023
Continuing a tradition dating back to 1968, this tenth study in a longitudinal series of surveys of the basic communication course has two goals: (1) to provide descriptive information about the basic course contemporarily and over time; and (2) to propose a framework for interpreting the impact of the extraordinary national and international…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Trend Analysis, Introductory Courses, Higher Education
Stephanie Serrano Vera – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This case study was to designed to identify the types of educational technology being used by ESL faculty at a suburban New Jersey community college and at what level in the substitution, augmentation, modification, and redefinition (SAMR) structure is technology being incorporated. Finally, faculty attitudes and influences regarding educational…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Belshaw, Scott H.; Nodeland, Brooke; Underwood, Lorrin; Colaiuta, Alexandrea – Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, 2020
Increasingly, criminal justice practitioners have been called on to help solve breaches in cyber security. However, while the demand for criminal justice participation in cyber investigations increases daily, most universities are lagging in their educational and training opportunities for students entering the criminal justice fields. This…
Descriptors: Law Enforcement, Community Colleges, Computer Security, Information Security
Laura Adele Soracco – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Many historically underrepresented students enroll in online classes because they need the flexibility to balance work, family, and coursework (Phirangee et al., 2016). However, community college students are less successful in online classes than they are in face-to-face classes (Xu & Jaggars, 2014). Feelings of isolation and disconnectedness…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Online Courses, Course Descriptions, Case Studies
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Chung, Sheung-man – Teaching Sociology, 2021
This study adopted a case-study approach to examine how associate degree sociology graduates evaluate their learning in a Hong Kong community college. Through focus group interviews, the learning experiences of sociology graduates were examined, specifically paying attention to their identification of enhancements in learning. The results of this…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Sociology, Case Studies, Community Colleges
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Rima, Brandi; Rodriguez, Crystal C. – Teaching of Psychology, 2021
Interdisciplinary pedagogy can enhance Introduction to Psychology curricula. We developed an interdisciplinary project to make meaning in a learning community (LC) clustering Introduction to Psychology with Introduction to Criminal Justice. Our purpose is to describe the project as a model and report on students' evaluations of the project and…
Descriptors: Psychology, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Introductory Courses
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Kunene, Niki; Toskin, Katarzyna – Information Systems Education Journal, 2022
Logistic regression (LoR) is a foundational supervised machine learning algorithm and yet, unlike linear regression, appears rarely taught early on, where analogy and proximity to linear regression would be an advantage. A random sample of 50 syllabi from undergraduate business statistics courses shows only two percent of the courses included LoR.…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Teaching Methods, Probability, Regression (Statistics)
Georgeann Gidley Ward – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Intended as a convenient and cost-efficient way for students to earn their first college credits while still in high school, dual-credit, or concurrent enrollment, is transforming many first-year writing (FYW) programs. Many institutions emphasize that dual-credit courses are the same as traditional college courses, yet "[dual-credit] tends…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Freshman Composition, High School Students, School Location
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de Vries, Lisbeth Elvira; May, Michael – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2019
This study presents an evaluation of virtual laboratory simulation for educational use in the "AP Degree Programme in Chemical and Biotechnical Science at University College Copenhagen" in Denmark. The purpose was to test if, and how, virtual laboratory simulation could be applied to a practically oriented education such as the education…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Foreign Countries, Biotechnology, Student Motivation
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Lovell, Darrell – Journal of Political Science Education, 2019
Addressing honors education and undergraduate research at the community college level is a question that is becoming more prevalent in the teaching landscape. Undergraduate research is encouraged as literature supports the role it plays in developing engaged students who are interested in the field of political science and academia in general.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Academic Standards, Mentors
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Johnson, Christopher D. L. – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2018
The advent of relatively inexpensive 360-degree cameras and virtual reality (VR) headsets brings new possibilities to the study of religion by allowing students to become virtually immersed in distant religious environments at very little cost. These tools can serve as the basis for assignments that help to engage students and meet core learning…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Computer Simulation, Video Technology, Assignments
Montoya, Carlos G – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation study examined the factors that influence the ability of math faculty at a local community college to implement a new intermediate algebra for statistics course designed to improve the math remediation pathway. A gap analysis framework was used to identify the knowledge, motivation and organizational influences found in the…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Teachers, College Faculty, Community Colleges
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Sikand, Monika; Mazzatenta, Claudio; Wong, Keith; Bush, Joseph; Socha, Aaron M. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2021
Interdisciplinary education offers a collaborative approach to multifaceted topics, such as environmental sustainability. In this article, we present the conceptual framework and lessons learned from a team-taught course, entitled Sustainability, Energy, and the Green Economy (SEGE). Faculty from the departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Energy, STEM Education, Grades (Scholastic)
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Skuratowicz, Eva; Ota St. Clair, Serena; Pritzlaff, Rikki; Anderson, Cassandra; Menefee, Michael; Miller-Loessi, Karen – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
This paper compares the effectiveness of contextualized developmental intermediate algebra to the more traditional developmental intermediate algebra approach, for students at two community college campuses located in two counties in the Pacific Northwest. We assessed four student outcome measures of effectiveness: likelihood of passing algebra,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Algebra, Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges
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Sporer, Celia – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2019
The recent rise of anti-Semitic acts and general lack of Holocaust knowledge highlights the need to integrate Holocaust education across disciplines. An undergraduate criminology class at Queensborough Community College (QCC-CUNY) was aligned with an on-campus Holocaust center exhibit, 'Conspiracy of Goodness', focused on rescuing behaviors of the…
Descriptors: Death, Jews, Crime, Undergraduate Students
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