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The Internal Consultant Model for Assessment
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Lewis, Kristi L.; Swerdzewski, Peter J. – Assessment Update, 2009
Many universities rely on a committee approach to assessment in which a group of faculty, staff, and administrators is tapped to provide guidance for assessment projects on behalf of various university programs or departments or the entire university. However, other organizational approaches to achieving strong programs of assessment are…
Descriptors: Guidance, Consultants, Models, Higher Education
Adult Undergraduate Students: Evaluating the Appropriateness of a Traditional Model of Academic Performance.
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Kasworm, Carol E.; Pike, Gary R. – Research in Higher Education, 1994
This study examined patterns of coursework and levels of involvement of 1,099 adult students to evaluate whether some key factors commonly used to predict undergraduate students' academic performance are appropriate for use with this population. Results suggest traditional models are inappropriate for this large and growing proportion of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Students, Age Differences, College Students
A Theoretical Model for the Four-Stage Music-Industry Internship Program.
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Schenbeck, Lyn – Journal of Experiential Education, 1996
Describes student development through experiential learning in a four-stage internship within a college music-industry curriculum, and uses the Steinaker-Bell experiential taxonomy to show how embedding a multistage internship throughout the curriculum, rather than at the end, greatly enhances learning. Suggests ways in which the multistage…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Programs, Cooperative Education, Educational Strategies
An Examination of Freshmen to Senior General Education Gains across a National Sample of Institutions with Different General Education Requirements Using a Mixed-Effect Structural Equation Model. AIR 1992 Annual Forum Paper.
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Knight, William E. – 1992
This study investigated differences in freshmen to senior student general education gains across institutions of higher education, with varying patterns of general education requirements using a mixed-effect structural equation model. The subjects were 6,409 students at 34 colleges and universities nationwide. Study procedures used American…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, College Outcomes Assessment, Comparative Analysis
Curriculum in Higher Education.
Rothman, A. I., Ed. – University Education News, 1981
Four articles on higher education curriculum are presented. In "The Articulate Curriculum" an approach to curriculum description is presented that is designed to have minimal ambiguity concerning the intention, content, and processes of the curriculum and that will lead to questioning several discrete factors in the curriculum planning…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Accounting, Bachelors Degrees, Business Education
The Status and Future of Academic Advising: Problems and Promise.
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Habley, Wesley R., Ed.; And Others – 1988
The status and future of academic advising is examined in this American College Testing Program (ACT) monograph, providing an in-depth look at the topics consistently viewed as critical to the success of advising programs. In chapter 1, Wesley R. Habley introduces the monograph by examining the trends in advising over the past 15 years, focusing…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Administrative Organization, College Faculty, Community Colleges