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Download full textCentral Piedmont Community Coll., Charlotte, NC. Dept. of Planning and Research. – 1993
A study was undertaken at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC), in North Carolina, to examine student opinions of services and factors influencing student satisfaction with the overall quality of CPCC. Questionnaires were distributed to 4,500 students in randomly selected classes in fall 1992, soliciting information on student…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges, Educational Facilities, Institutional Research
Lehigh County Community Coll., Schnecksville, PA. – 1993
An experimental study compared the effectiveness of a traditional General Educational Development (GED) curriculum with a literacy curriculum based on applied literacy skills. An experimental group of 34 adult students received GED instruction emphasizing functional and workplace contexts and supplemental instruction, whereas the 35 students in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Comparative Analysis, Course Descriptions, Followup Studies
Poage, Julie A. – 1991
As education students are faced with the inevitable arrival of computers in classrooms they experience a number of obstacles preventing success in introductory computer classes. The basis for this study suggests that the overwhelming factor contributing to success in such a class is confidence. One hundred fourteen undergraduate education students…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Correlation, Education Majors, Elementary Secondary Education
Elenbogen, Janet C.; Hiestand, Nancy I. – 1989
The practices and perceptions of a shared planning team decision-making model and the effects on student achievement and attendance are examined in this study. Survey results, test scores, and background data on schools were utilized to analyze the relationships among the degree of shared decision-making and planning effectiveness ratings, student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Attendance, Contingency Management
Ryan, Constance V. – 1984
A questionnaire was administered to 400 randomly selected four-year academic institutions to gather information about integration of print and nonprint materials, provision of media facilities, and degree of cooperation between audiovisual centers and libraries. Responses received from 266 institutions (67%) were subjected to the posteriori…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Centers, Audiovisual Coordinators, College Libraries
Willingham, Warren W.; And Others – 1985
The relationship among preadmission characteristics of students, admission policies, and different measures of success during college was studied at nine colleges: Bucknell University, Colgate University, Hartwick College, Kalamazoo College, Kenyon College, Occidental College, Ohio Wesleyan University, University of Richmond, and Williams College.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Admission Criteria, College Admission
Matuszek, Paula; Haskin, Christine – 1978
The relationships of various different variables which had been used to define socio-economic status (SES) to achievement for second- and fifth-grade students were examined. Interviews were conducted with 533 parents across the Austin Independent School District to obtain information on job status, age, income, education, attitude toward…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, Black Students, Community Surveys
Moore, R. P.; Shah, B. V. – 1975
An efficiency study was conducted of the sampling design used for the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS), and the change variables used in the first followup. Nine alternative designs were compared, using a cost model based upon the number of schools and students sampled. Fourteen change variables and eight domains…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cost Effectiveness, Data Analysis, Efficiency
Torrance, E. Paul – 2002
This book reports on a 40-year longitudinal study of factors that foster or inhibit creativity over time. Students in elementary grades were originally evaluated from 1958 to 1964. Follow-up in 1980 led to development of a Manifesto for Children which summarized conclusions in the form of guidance for aphorisms such as "Don't be afraid to fall in…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adults, Attitudes, Career Development
Edwards, Jennifer L.; And Others – 1996
This study assessed the relationship between teacher efficacy and teacher conceptual level, teacher empowerment, and school culture. Teacher participants (N=430) were primarily Caucasian females who taught in grades K-12, with the majority at the elementary (83 percent) or middle school (11 percent) level. They were evenly represented in the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Environment, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Knight, Nancy – 1996
A study was conducted at 12 community colleges in 6 states to determine the relationship between student and faculty characteristics and the colleges' transfer rates. Transfer rate was defined as the percentage of students with 12 or more credits who transferred to an in-state institution within 4 years, while findings were compared for 3 colleges…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. – 1990
The determinants and labor market consequences for immigrants of proficiency in speaking the dominant language (English in the United States and English of French in Canada) are explored, with focus on adult men using self-reported data from the 1980 and 1981 censuses of the United States and Canada, respectively. It is shown that the determinants…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Economic Status
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Two Year Coll. Development Center. – 1991
A study was conducted to determine whether factors found to be related to student persistence in public and independent two-year colleges (i.e., positive college environment, realistic student expectations for career and education, and a sense of belonging) were generalizable to the proprietary sector. Three proprietary institutions in New York…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Environment, 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
Doherty, Gillian; Lero, Donna S.; Goelman, Hillel; Tougas, Jocelyne; LaGrange, Annette – 2000
Canadian experts in diverse fields as well as people concerned about social justice and cohesion have identified quality child care as a crucial component in addressing a variety of broad societal goals. This study explored the relationships between quality in Canadian family child care homes and: provider characteristics and attitudes about…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Child Caregivers, Compensation (Remuneration)
