Teaching modalities and in-service training activities showing promise of increasing student learning and teaching effectiveness were identified by 25 community/junior college instructors who participated in a six-week institute for training in Flanders Interaction Analysis and questioning strategies. The Delphi process, surveys, and campus…

Describes a successful summer institute utilizing videotaped microteaching and Flanders Interaction Analysis to help 14 community college professors improve their methods of interacting with students. (DC)

This document contains six papers. The first paper discusses the creation and operation of the Gulf Coast Intercollegiate Conference, a six-college consortium designed to promote competitions, festivals, and other forms of academic and recreational interaction for the students of the member institutions. The second paper reports the results of a…

The objective of this study was to determine whether there were verbal interaction differences between junior/community college and university settings and among disciplines. Theoretically, student achievement and student attitudes are influenced by the types of verbal interactions taking place within classrooms. Forty-eight different classes…

Twenty-five instructors from 11 different community colleges and 13 different disciplines participated in a six week institute at Texas A&M University, geared to improving teaching in junior and community colleges. The participants had an average of 5.08 years of experience in college level teaching, and all had at least a master's degree.…