A set of measures was developed to assess the quality of student effort in the utilization of the facilities and opportunities available in the college setting. The measures are based on the assumption that students are accountable for the amount, scope, and quality of effort they invest in using the available resources for their learning and…

The purpose of this research project was to identify potential dropouts among entering freshmen at Kingsborough Community College (KCC) and some of the characteristics that might be related to the decision to leave college prior to earning the associate degree. Results of a survey of the Fall 1978 incoming freshmen provided descriptive data…

Observations are offered on the curriculum of American higher education. It is noted that the curriculum is a major part of an institution's statement about itself, and the societal impact of higher education is likely to be determined more by the kind of people college graduates become than by what they know when they leave college. The…

Curriculum reform is the focus of this comprehensive handbook directed toward faculty, administrators, and students. A systems model for curriculum planning is proposed as well as an examination of four major areas: general and liberal education, area concentration, experiential learning, and calendar and degree programs. Within each area the book…

In order to directly relate research on children's thinking to curriculum development in the social studies, this study approximates the conditions and substances of daily classroom life and examines the levels of abstraction in children's thinking about complex social problems. The subjects include 210 boys and girls in equal numbers in grades…

The theoretical section of this paper briefly suggests why a period of drastic social change demands a curriculum which is more relevant to the concerns of students and presents an information processing model of man as the basis on which to develop such a curriculum. A rationale for teaching particular processes (rather than specific content) is…

The four-phase project, Toward Individualized Instruction, is a school-university partnership designed to meet the needs of physical educators for relevance during preservice teacher educators and individualized instructional programs. During phase one, students fulfill the following course requirements as they relate to their field base: (a)…

Data were obtained from surveying and testing 86 teachers and 979 trainable mentally handicapped (TMH) children. Results indicated that most teachers were married and had college degrees, but had only limited experience and no relationship outside the classroom with retarded children. Over a fourth were not certified. Most preferred to teach…

The purpose of this study was to compare the development of self-concept and achievement in reading of students in the first, third, and fifth year of attendance in graded and nongraded schools. The population of this study was composed of 338 selected students from six elementary schools in Kokomo, Indiana, and the experimental group was composed…

A student-centered environment in which the curriculum, methodology, and strategy focus on the student's immediate and ultimate goals and view the student as a total person who is developing within a real world is suggested. The student is discussed as to self-assessment; learning matrices; contractual learning; feedback, rewards, and evidence of…

The use of pupil growth measures to evaluate the competency of preservice teacher trainees is advocated by many proponents of competency-based teacher education. This paper (1) raises pro and con arguments for the use of pupil growth measures to evaluate preservice teachers, (2) suggests practical applications for the use of various types of pupil…

The Instructor-Counselor Program is designed to prepare teachers for special service in lower division college programs, especially in student development programs concentrating on basic skills. It emphasizes academic counseling, tutoring, and special approaches to instruction, especially for the underachieving-disadvantaged student. Both full-…

The ways many people view higher education today are examined, especially some of the ways evaluators, researchers, and others are assessing college benefits and college impact. Trends toward getting a college education without going to college are discussed, with reference to the evaluation design of the input-environment-output model. College…

Physical education is academic discipline influencing the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains, promoting the development of the total individual by means of selected movement experiences and physical activities. As a structured portion of education, it has been in existence only about 100 years when a department of Physical Education and…

Discussion of the view of education as a process of development, rather than as knowledge acquisition, focuses on the use of computers and other new information technologies (NITs) in primary schools. This is a paper from a 1987 working conference sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). (16 references)…