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Capoor, Madan – 1982
An evaluation of the nurse education program at Middlesex County College (MCC) was conducted in response to an increasing dropout rate and a decline in the passing rate of program graduates on the Licensing Board Examination (LBE). The study focused on the relationship between student background and performance and between student performance in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Administrator Attitudes, Basic Skills
Johnson, Davis G. – 1983
The changing characteristics of past, present, and future U.S. medical students are examined, and suggestions are offered for the selection and education of future medical students. In addition to summarizing historical events from 1930 to 1982, the future characteristics of medical students through the year 2000 are addressed, based on the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Admission Criteria, Ancillary School Services, College Applicants
Gambrell, Linda B., Ed. – 1984
Drawn from a 1983 conference that focused on reading in the school, at home, and at work, the papers in this collection deal with reading strategies, assessment, programs, methods, and materials. Topics covered in the 17 papers include the following: (1) focused instruction for reading exposition, (2) repeated reading, (3) teacher interruption…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Skills
Puffer, Richard J. – 1981
Community college planners must be futurists, projecting institutional and program enrollments and funding from tuition and state sources. Yet it is increasingly difficult to make accurate projections even for one year, when factors do not operate as they have in the past. Nevertheless, new trends in people, programs, finances, and facilities can…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Planning, Community Colleges
Download full textSouthern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1974
To assist mental health agency leaders and others concerned with state mental health manpower development, these guidelines (presented in ten sections) explore various issues and approaches and indications for using one approach over another. The first three sections focus on designing and conducting manpower studies, making long range projections…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Ladders, Certification, Cost Effectiveness
Yess, James P. – 1979
The intent of this study was to determine the influence of selected independent variables on the graduating grade point average (GPA) of community college students in various programs of study. A sample of 483 students from one community college represented seven programs of study: Business Administration-General, Business Administration-Transfer,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations
Buchen, Irving H. – 1980
This paper summarizes various theories of youth activism and makes a projection of what adolescence may be like by the year 2000. The major objective is to aid social scientists and futurists as they attempt to interpret the role of youth in social and cultural change. The hypothesis is that observation and analysis of recent and contemporary…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cohort Analysis, Cultural Context, Cultural Traits
Watkins, Karen, Ed. – 1979
Brief, two-page abstracts are provided for 15 educational topics of interest to community college faculty, administrators, and staff. Each abstract is coded to indicate intended audience, subject category, and level of concern. The topics covered by the abstracts are: (1) five major components of teacher evaluation; (2) writing an abstract; (3)…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Basic Skills, Classroom Environment, Cloze Procedure
Jones, Jerry L. – 1979
A study was conducted to determine the optimum combination of selected social, academic, and demographic variables to maximally differentiate membership in the successful, unsuccessful, and withdrawal groups of first-year computer programming majors in Virginia community colleges. A questionnaire focusing on 18 selected variables was administered…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Age, Community Colleges
CORNISH, ROBERT L. – 1967
ABSTRACTS OF 27 STUDIES WERE COMPILED AS EXAMPLES OF INVESTIGATIONS MADE BY TEACHERS CONCERNED WITH THE INDIVIDUAL QUALITIES OF GIFTED CHILDREN IN THEIR SCHOOLS. THE STUDIES ARE ARRANGED IN FOUR SECTIONS--IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERISTICS, ACHIEVEMENT IN SCHOOL, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND EDUCATIONAL PROVISIONS AND PROGRAMS. EACH SECTION PROVIDES A…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Achievement
Guggenheim, Fred – 1967
The relationship between self-esteem, academic expectations, and ethnic group membership was studied in a New York City elementary school which had an approximately equal enrollment of Negro, white, and Spanish-background pupils. Subjects were 162 sixth-grade students who were tested with two projective tests and one specifically designed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Achievement Tests, Black Students
McIntyre, Chuck – 1997
The 2005 Task Force of the Chancellor's Consultation Council was created to recommend long-term strategies to identify access and service goals for California Community Colleges (CCC), the resources needed to achieve these goals, and ways to obtain needed resources. This technical paper provides the Task Force with forecasts of plausible scenarios…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Planning, Community Colleges, Educational Finance
Financing Education in the Twenty-first Century: What State Legislative Trends of the 1990s Portend.
Peer reviewedCrampton, Faith E. – Journal of Education Finance, 2001
Reviews 1999 school finance legislation, analyzes 1994-99 state education finance activity, and discusses established and emergent trends in funding for school infrastructure, educational technology, charter schools, student achievement (class-size reduction, school-year extensions, reading instruction, and alternative placements), teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, Charter Schools, Educational Equity (Finance)
Maryland State Higher Education Commission, Annapolis. – 1997
This study examined the relationship between students' academic performance in high school vis-a-vis their performance in the first year at college. The study analyzed data on students who graduated from Maryland high schools in the 1994-95 academic year and who were enrolled in 2- and 4-year Maryland public institutions or in one of 11…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Bound Students, College Freshmen, College Outcomes Assessment
Hansen (Shirley J.) Associates, Inc., Lake Jackson, TX. – 1984
Since the publication of the original report, entitled "Fiscal Profile of America's Public Schools, 1981-85, and Associated Energy Implications," the national school revenue picture reveals: (1) a decline in federal aid to education, (2) a decline in state fiscal capacity, (3) a reduction in the state-local portion of public l 826/827 sector…
Descriptors: Depleted Resources, Educational Demand, Educational Finance, Educational Trends
