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Direct linkDenman, Christopher, Ed.; Al-Mahrooqi, Rahma, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Different regions of the world are making increasing demands for educational reform, especially when institutions are dissatisfied with the level of proficiency of their graduates. Since the realization of how important English education is to global success, reform to English education is becoming progressively vital in societies all over the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedLong, Huey B.; Walsh, Stephen M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1993
Offers an analysis of 11 dissertations focusing on self-directed learning (SDL) in community colleges, highlighting the importance of promoting SDL, the relationship between the level of SDL and other variables, verification and measurement of time spent on SDL projects, and effects of SDL. (DMM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Instruction, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations
Peer reviewedSheckley, Barry G. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1985
Details a study of learning involvement among adults through interviews with 41 males over 25 enrolled at a small New England community college. Interviews revealed that in the preceding year respondents completed an average of seven learning projects, spending 285 hours on each, and that 56 percent of the projects were self-directed. (DMM)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Style, Community Colleges
Greenberg, Redge L. – 1991
To better understand the effect of student background, work load, and attitudes on performance in intermediate algebra, a study was conducted in summer 1990 among students at a central Texas community college using pre- and post-course questionnaires completed by 124 of 157 students in 8 sections of intermediate algebra. Respondents were…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Algebra, Cognitive Style, Community Colleges
Thompson, Mary J.; O'Brien, Terrance P. – 1991
Considerable study has been focused on relationships between learning styles and other characteristics and conditions, such as teaching styles, achievement, student age, and student gender. In 1991, a study was conducted on two campuses of a comprehensive community college in the southeast to measure the effect on course grades of the relationship…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Students, Age, Age Differences
Foster, Gerald Wm., Ed. – 1987
This document contains the abstracts of the presentations made at this conference. Topics of presentations included: (1) linking research and science teaching using community resources; (2) planning science teacher workshops; (3) school-related recycling programs; (4) improving student attitudes toward science; (5) rural science teaching; (6)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College School Cooperation, College Science, Elementary School Science
Download full textRivera, William M., Comp.; Walker, Sharon M., Comp. – 1985
The 48 papers in this proceedings focus on aspects of non-formal adult education including international comparative adult education. The papers are: "Lifelong Learning in Perspective" (Knox); "Women in their Thirties: The In-Between Generation" (Caffarella, Freeman); "Development in Women: An Analysis of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Aging (Individuals)
Austin, Ann, Ed.; Hynes, Geraldine E., Ed.; Miller, Roxanne T., Ed. – 1999
This document contains the proceedings of a 1999 conference on adult, continuing, and community education held in St. Louis, Missouri. The following 39 papers are included: "Program Effectiveness Evaluation: Recertification and Job Upgrading for Adult Refugees" (Non-Native Speakers of English) (Adelman); "Rethinking the Linkages between Higher and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
