In 1989, the Center for the Study of Community Colleges began a project to define and promote student transfer from community colleges to four-year colleges and universities. The project had four purposes: establish a definition of transfer; gather and analyze transfer data from a broad sample of colleges; assist the colleges in establishing…

This manual provides information on identification and recruitment of migrant students for practitioners at all levels, and can function as both a training document and a reference tool. The identification and recruitment process consists of three interrelated elements: (1) definitions governing migrant program eligibility; (2) the process…

This paper proposes a definition of social skills in order to operationalize the components that need to be considered when teaching social skills to individuals with mental retardation in employment settings. It also presents current approaches to teaching social skills in employment settings. Social skills are defined as goal-oriented,…

In this document, a multifactorial model of child abuse dynamics is presented. Designed to illustrate the simultaneous mutual interaction among factors contributing to an episode of child abuse, the model is intended to serve as a conceptual skeleton providing a context for comparing abuse factors. Child abuse is defined broadly as "the physical…

The author argues that unless Kohlberg's theory of moral development can be demonstrated empirically, based on scientific evidence, his ensuing plan for a program of moral education amounts to no more than a systematic program of indoctrination. Kohlberg identifies the moral stage of a person by eliciting from a subject the reasons referred to in…

The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the way students' beliefs and actions toward social studies interacted and the impact of this interaction upon their social studies student teaching in elementary and middle schools. Two separate and distinctive samples were used. Sample A consisted of 12 randomly chosen students from the teacher…

A product of Project PACCE (Providing Professional Development, Assessment, and Coordination of Competency Based Education), this guide is Assessment, and Coordination of Competency Based Education), this guide is designed to introduce adult educators to competency-based adult education (CBAE) in a manner that is informative, yet non-technical.…

Responds to a number of recent criticisms of labeling theory made by those who criticize it for its empathy with deviants, and Marxists who criticize it for ignoring oppression and exploitation. Conceptual problems of defining what is deviance and who is a deviant are discussed. (Author/AM)

New health practitioners (NHPs) are defined as nonphysician personnel being trained to carry out many tasks in the provision of primary care. The author traces historical background and legal issues involved in their training along with other policy issues and related problems, e.g. need for team training and practice. (JT)

Suggests that the concept of maturity, while having utility in many scientific and medical areas, has gradually become a major ingredient in the attempt of some people to neutralize certain personal life-style evolutions as well as some social and political movements. (Author/AM)

Article provided information teachers should know before teaching ethnic studies courses: What is it? Why teach it? What is the content scope? Where does it fit into the curriculum? These four questions were answered and strategies for developing ethnic studies programs were suggested. (Author/RK)

It is a well-known fact that the idea of function plays a unifying role in the development of mathematical concepts. Yet research has shown that many students do not understand it adequately even though they have experienced a great deal of success in performing a plethora of operations on function, and on using functions to solve various types of…

An attempt is made, using a partial review of the literature, to present a non-technical overview of some of the child-related issues in simultaneous bilingualism. While controversy still rages in the area of bilingualism research, some definite changes can be discerned over the past 40 years. Opinion has shifted from a deficiency perspective to…

This resource book aims to help students find their own answers to questions about grammar, punctuation, measurement, mathematics, time, geometry, science, writing, geography, vocabulary, history, and money. The definition and, often, examples and an illustration are described for more than 200 concepts from the various subject matters. All items…