Laboratory instruction in engineering disciplines in recent years has been adversely affected by a variety of structural problems making it increasingly difficult to provide students with adequate hands-on lab experience on par with the ever expanding requirements of the technical job market. As a possible approach to deal with some of the…

In 1984, the Student Assessment and Response System (STARS) was developed by the Florida Junior College at Jacksonville (FJCJ) to establish a proactive student assessment system that translates data collection on student needs into counseling action. As part of the registration process, students may complete a STARS survey form, which lists…

A curriculum was developed to address the needs of a high school special education computer science class. Class members included both resource-room learning disabled and the more severely learning disabled, and the project aimed to help them fulfill the school district requirement of the completion of a one-semester computer class prior to…