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Sherry McCubbin Blanset – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines the role of reflective practice in the development of teacher candidates during their final internship in a teacher preparation program at a state college in Southwest Florida. Grounded in Dewey's and Schon's theories on reflective practice as well as Vygotsky's social learning theories, this mixed methods explanatory…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Teacher Education Programs, Internship Programs, State Colleges
Zhao, Kai; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Mokhe, Christine G.; Hu, Shouping – Community College Review, 2022
Objective: In 2014, Florida implemented Senate Bill 1720 (SB 1720), which drastically reshaped developmental education practices across the 28 public state colleges. Under the reform, around two-thirds of students became exempt from developmental education. Yet, many students were still required to take the placement test. If they scored below…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, State Colleges, College Students
Sepanik, Susan; Safran, Stephanie; Saco, Larissa – MDRC, 2018
In the United States today, more jobs than ever before require at least some postsecondary education. Yet too many young adults are either not enrolling or not succeeding in college. This scenario exists across many different types of communities, but schools in rural areas, particularly those with large populations of low-income students, face…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Rural Schools, Alignment (Education), Public Schools
Anderson, Betty Marie; And Others – 1989
The Academic Skills Center at Black Hills State University provides a peer assistance program comprising both individual tutoring in classes offered in each academic division and credit classes in study skills. The goal of the Center is to respond effectively and quickly to individual educational needs of students and faculty through a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, College Students, Cooperative Learning
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Lee, Jerry; Strayer, Jim – Community and Junior College Journal, 1981
Describes Nebraska's Central Technical Community College Area (CTCCA), which serves 25 urban and rural counties. Discusses cooperative arrangements with community agencies and the development of instructional delivery systems for remote populations. Reviews course offerings, the advantages of individualized instruction, the CTCCA's Permanent…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Individualized Instruction
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Adeyemi, B. A. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2007
This study examined learning Social Studies by investigating the effectiveness of mastery approach on students' performance in Social Studies of two groups of students drawn from Osun State College of Education, Ila-Orangun and University of Uyo, Ila-Orangun Study Centre which consisted of 200 level Social Studies students and 200 level degree…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Instructional Design, State Colleges, Mastery Learning
Brown, Byron; Finch, John – Community College Social Science Quarterly, 1973
Describes a program designed to overcome the constraints small college instructors face in teaching economics. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Concept Formation, Economics Education, Educational Objectives
Howe, Richard D.; Simmons, David N. – 1986
Average salary increases for 937 faculty in the field of curriculum and instruction are reported for 1982-1983 and 1985-1986, as part of the College and University Personnel Association's annual faculty salary studies. Included are comparative data for 108,074 faculty at 174 public colleges and 193 private colleges, representing 41 academic…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, College Programs, Comparative Analysis
Jackman, Diane H.; Swan, Michael K. – 1994
The Teaching Support Center (TSC) at the University of North Dakota was established in 1992 to provide faculty and graduate assistants with a wide range of pedagogical, professional, and technological assistance in order to improve the quality of instruction. A 3-year plan was developed to implement 13 goals, which are: (1) determining the needs…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction
Siepert, Albert F. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The study presented in this bulletin shows considerable variation in the subjects included in the curriculum set up for prospective teachers. There is, however, a growing tendency toward a common standard, and the two-year courses are coming to have many elements in common both as to subject matter and methods of procedure. For example, in many…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Teaching, Preservice Teachers, Educational History