Three pilot studies are used to examine the relationships between academic performance, student ability, and motivation among community college students. The first study analyzed the association between motivation and academic performance in order to test the hypothesis that students who are highly motivated will earn higher grades. Results…

This paper presents an examination of community college students enrolled in developmental mathematics courses, and their subsequent academic performance in college-level coursework. The study was undertaken to obtain an historical perspective of remedial education in American community colleges and to review the research related to developmental…

This discussion paper focuses on nontraditional female students in a developmental writing class at a small two-year college in Georgia. Through interviews, focus groups, and observation, the study discovered that women are entering college in greater numbers than ever, and the colleges, at times, have difficulty in building support systems and…

This paper addresses the subject of cheating and plagiarism via the World Wide Web. After spending just a few hours browsing on the Internet, the author found dozens of "cheat" sites that offered term papers of all kinds. Some sites charge a fee for papers, some sites only request that students join by sending in one of their papers to add to the…

This is the nineteenth publication of a comprehensive data book by the Illinois Community College Board. It contains annual data for fiscal year 1999 and fall term data for 1999 (fiscal year 2000). This publication provides information about students, faculty and staff, annual enrollment and completion, operating finances, and capital…

This paper considers the student population in the two year college, their problems, and the factors affecting their success. Stress, among these students, takes all kinds of different forms and is derived from all kinds of different sources. Today's students live in a world of casual isolation and anonymity; they do not have the family ties that…

The American Association of Junior Colleges, at its ninth annual meeting at Fort Worth, Texas, December 3-5, 1928, voted to request for a publication of a complete bibliography on the junior college. It was felt that the junior college, this new and vigorous movement in American education, was rapidly developing an extensive literature which…

The data indicate that the majority of students who transfer from four year colleges to two year colleges plan to continue their education toward a four year college degree. They benefit from the transfer by more realistic vocational goals and greater satisfaction and academic success in the new college environment. (Author/BY)

The authors call for the development of innovative programs which will meet student needs while facilities are limited as well as the planning of new programs which can be implemented when facilities become available. (Author)

Six hundred and sixty junior and senior college students were respondents in this study. Most Negro respondents attended predominantly Negro colleges and universities in Georgia, Texas, Missouri, and Maryland. Most white respondents attended white institutions in Louisiana, Kansas, Arkansas, California, and Iowa. (JM)

The problem: the wide variation of student characteristics in community junior colleges in comparison with junior college transfer students. Prospects: course proliferation, self-instruction, computer-assisted instruction, and improvement of instruction with institutional support from community junior colleges, four year colleges, universities,…

Perceptual orientation (field dependence/independence) was related to 47 biology/earth science students' attitudes toward science. In addition, students who were field dependent and possessed a positive attitude scored significantly higher on a science achievement test than students who were field dependent and possessed a negative attitude. (JN)

Reviews the development of the transfer function in California community colleges, supplying data confirming that community colleges function not only as career, community, and compensatory education centers, but as institutions in which students desiring baccalaureate degrees matriculate, albeit differently from a generation ago. (DMM)