This report presents selected performance measures of California's community colleges during the 1993-94 academic year in the areas of student access (measured by student enrollment and participation rates), student success (measured by student goals, persistence, completion rates, and employment information), staff composition (measured by…

A study compared the perceptions of two experts from different cultural backgrounds concerning salience of a variety of errors typical of the English written by Hong Kong secondary and college students. A book on English error types written by a Hong-Kong born, fluent Chinese-English bilingual linguist was analyzed for its emphases, and a list of…

Data on the Illinois public community colleges, covering fiscal year (FY) 1991 and part of FY 1992, are presented in this report on the system's students, faculty, staff, instructional programs, operating finances, and capital construction. Introductory material provides a profile of the colleges, a map of college districts, and a list of…

The ALANA (Asian, Latin, African, and Native American) Mentoring Program was established at Saint Clair County Community College, in Port Huron, Michigan, to address the identity issues facing ALANA freshmen through peer mentoring. Mentors provide social and academic support, support students in thinking critically and role playing, and directly…

This document consists of the eight issues of the UNESCO-UNEP Environmental Education Newsletter published in 1991 and 1992. The lead article in the March 1991 issue, "From Awareness to Action via Nonformal Environmental Education," discusses the different methods to translate and transmit environmental education concepts to citizens in…

Qualitative methods for defining and assigning letter grades on classroom tests were studied. A hierarchical letter-grade scale is described that combines teachers' judgments of the importance of subject matter concepts and their classification of assessment tasks as reflecting cognitive processing skills identified from recent research. Using…

Metacognitions about study activities and strategy use were assessed in 166 fifth and sixth graders (54 percent female and 39 percent African American), 108 seventh and eighth graders (55 percent female and 32 percent African American), and 168 college students (60 percent female, 10 percent African American, and 10 percent from other ethnic…

Seven original research papers are presented. The titles and authors are as follows: "Acquisition of the Argument-Structure of Verbs" (Mika Endo); "A Note on Semantic Selection" (Yoshio Endo); "The Governing Category Parameter in Second Language" (Makiko Hirakawa); "The Use of Connectives in English Academic…

In the context of the modern global society and economy, foreign language instruction is placing more emphasis on students' cross-cultural understanding and on using language to develop students' communication skills. These goals are evidenced by the current interest in Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum (FLAC) courses, which teach languages…

A project was undertaken to reduce the amount of time required to screen first year students into an oversubscribed early childhood education program at a multicampus community college in Ontario, Canada, and to reduce faculty complaints concerning the procedure. The original process consisted of applicant questionnaires scored by faculty and…

The five issues of this newsletter, which focuses on a set of video-based, commercially-produced French second language instructional materials, contain articles on a variety of topics. The instructional materials in question, "French in Action," consist of a videotape component (52 episodes), an audiotape component, workbook, study…

This manual offers information on developing, implementing, and maintaining college alcohol and other drug programs at New York institutions of higher education. The document notes that alcohol is the drug of choice for college students and that therefore alcohol-related issues and programs are the primary focus of the manual. Part 1 of the manual…

This study compared techniques for teaching collaborative writing to English majors in Taiwan, focusing on the effectiveness of computer-mediated (CM) vs. face-to-face (FF) peer response sessions, measured by amount of speech produced by students and the level of participation in discussion. Subjects were 17 university sophomores in a composition…

This study sought to identify similarities and differences influencing students' self-perceived gains in communication and critical thinking skills. The study examined students' background characteristics and general college experiences, as well as their experiences in their major field of study. Structural equation modeling was used to examine…

This study explores the question of accessibility to existing campus technology by low socio-economic, nontraditional, and minority college students. Questions posed are: (1) "Do nontraditional, low socio-economic and traditionally underrepresented students have the same access to computers and information technology as traditional majority…