With support from the California Community College Fund for Instructional Improvement, 14 classroom-based research studies were conducted in fall 1991 at American River College (ARC), Consumnes River College (CRC), Sacramento City College (SCC), San Joaquin Delta College (SJDC), Solano Community College (SoCC), and Yuba Community College (YCC). This compilation contains an opening report on the project's background, a summary evaluation of the studies, a budget review, and 14 project reports. These reports are: (1) "Learning Style and the Distant Learner," by Richard J. Dowdall (SCC); (2) "Investigating Some Strategies To Lower Attrition in Biology," by Alyce Fiedler and George Bleekman (ARC); (3) "Cooperative Learning in a Developmental Reading Course," by William Morris (ARC); (4) "Grammar-Checking Software in the Writing Lab," by Phil Hutcheon (SJDC); (5) "The CRC Penpal Project: Fostering Cross-Cultural Interaction," by Marlo McClurg; (6) "Underline the Subject Once; the Verb Twice, Or Grammar: What Good Is It? Language Study in Composition Courses," by Cynthia Cilensek Kellogg (YCC); (7) "Assigned Topics vs. Student Topics: For Developing Fluency in ESL (English As a Second Language) Students under Timed Writing Conditions," by Charles F. Honnold (ARC); (8) "Computer Skills in the Fashion Industry: A Comparison of the Attributes of Community College Students and the Needs of Employers," by Peggy Gorbach (SoCC); (9) "An Initial Investigation into Why More African-American Students Do Not Take Foreign Language Classes," by Ramiro Canto-Lugo and Matthew J. Reich (YCC); (10) "Does the Graphing Calculator Enhance Learning in Precalculus?" by Katherine McLain (CRC); (11) "Laboratory Activities in Developmental Mathematics," by Kent M. Neuerburg (CRC); (12) "Ongoing Semester Use of the Dunham Dance Technique To Improve Student Preparedness for Dance," by Shirley Brown (SCC); (13) "English 1/History 17 Essay," by Susan Messina and Diane White (SoCC); and (14) "Feedback Loop as a Mastery Learning Teaching Concept To Improve Student Learning," by Carole Jarrett (SoCC). (PAA)