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Blaustein, Ernest H.; Kayne, Herbert L. – Journal of Medical Education, 1980
Graduates of Boston University's accelerated Six-Year College of Liberal Arts-Medical Education Combined Degree Program are compared with their eight-year classmates. The results indicate that the six-year group achieved higher scores on standardized tests but that both groups were remarkably similar in other aspects, and that the liberal arts…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acceleration, Career Choice, Cohort Analysis
Soden, Rebecca; Pithers, Bob – International Journal of Training Research, 2003
There has been a growing emphasis within educational literature on the need to encourage all learners to think critically about whatever they are studying. There were concerns that this aim was not being achieved in a degree program for VET tutors. One purpose of the study was to quantify the extent of critical thinking in one cohort of VET…
Descriptors: Essays, Tutors, Critical Thinking, Vocational Education
Adelman, Clifford – Community College Journal, 2003
Among the principal assumptions that have governed enrollment management in community colleges for the past two decades is that the community college sector serves a distinctly older population than do other sectors of the post-secondary system. When the noted community college researcher, Arthur Cohen of the University of California-Los Angeles,…
Descriptors: Age, Community Colleges, Enrollment Management, Higher Education
Henning, Mary Beth; Yendol-Hoppey, Diane – Teaching Education, 2004
Teacher education programs are being encouraged to collaborate with K-12 partners to develop and implement contextually rich field experiences that integrate methods course instruction with public school practices. As a result, we outline four models of integrating methods instruction and field experiences and raise the question "How does the…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teacher Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Lake, Vickie E.; Jones, Ithel; Dagli, Ummuhan – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2004
It is a well-known theory and practice among early childhood educators that building early relationships with the children is crucial to their development. However, there is irony in the fact that many teacher education programs that propose to model "best practices" do not model relationship building with their preservice teachers. This study…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Education Programs, Methods Courses, Ethics
Ireland, Eleanor; Golden, Sarah; Morris, Marian – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2006
The integrated Aimhigher programme was established in 2004 to widen participation in higher education by raising the aspirations and developing the abilities of young people from underrepresented groups. In order to explore the extent to which young people subsequently made a successful transition at 16 and intended, or had decided, to continue…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Research Reports
Gorman, Bridget K.; Read, Jen'Nan Ghazal – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2006
Recent examinations of gender differences in physical health suggest that women's disadvantage may be smaller than previously assumed, varying by health status measure and age. Using data from the 1997-2001 National Health Interview Surveys, we examine gender-by-age differences in life-threatening medical conditions, functional limitations, and…
Descriptors: Females, Health Conditions, Physical Health, Age Differences
Conklin, Karen A. – 1995
A representative sample of first-time, full-time freshmen attending 17 Kansas community colleges in fall 1985 were tracked through spring 1990. Eight separate surveys were mailed to between 50 and 100 freshmen at each college, receiving a final response rate of 82.8%. Study findings included the following: (1) 71% of the respondents who initially…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Cohort Analysis, College Freshmen
Neblock, Carl S. – 1996
The use of the cohort-survival method for projecting student enrollments is widely known in educational finance literature; however, the limited information provided by the model impedes planners in making future operational decisions. The cohort-survival method employs historical rates of usage to predict future patterns of usage and produces a…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Bilingual Education, Cohort Analysis, Compensatory Education
Boughan, Karl – 1996
At Prince George's Community College (PGCC), in Maryland, a comprehensive freshman academic monitoring database has been developed to follow the progress of peer groups of first-time students entering each fall through their sixth year of potential enrollment. Using the new database, as well as information from the Maryland Higher Education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attrition (Research Studies), Cohort Analysis, College Freshmen
Butcher, Jude – 1994
Studies of teacher development face the issue of providing a valid and generalizable analysis reflecting the influence of differences in people and contexts and their interactions. To adopt a study designed upon a single set of data, whether extensive or intensive, is limiting--both types of data are needed. Effective research provides for a wide…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Cohort Analysis
McMillen, Marilyn M.; And Others – 1994
This report presents 1993 data on high school dropout and retention rates, examines high school completion and graduation rates, and discusses new data-collection efforts by the National Center for Education Statistics that have a direct bearing on the issues of high school dropout and graduation rates. The report also draws comparisons between…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cohort Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
Warring, Douglas F.; Huber, Susan J. – 1993
This paper describes an inservice teacher education program--its development and its attempts to prepare teachers for urban environments. As the result of a collaborative venture between the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), the American Federation of Teachers Local 59, and the Minneapolis (Minnesota) school district, a distinctive master's…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Holland, Ann K.; Marsiglia, Flavio F. – 1993
The social and educational status of children from homeless families was studied in four cohorts of Cleveland (Ohio) public school students who requested transportation from homeless shelters for the school years from 1987-88 to 1990-91. Total cohort size ranged from the 1987-88 high of 39 students to the 1990-91 low of 22 students, with 36…
Descriptors: Black Students, Children, Cohort Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth
Marsh, Herbert W. – 1992
Students' evaluations of teacher effectiveness are explored as a multidimensional construct, emphasizing the Students' Evaluations of Educational Quality (SEEQ) instrument developed by H. W. Marsh (1987). An overview is presented of studies in which Marsh evaluated longitudinal data from an archive of responses to nearly 1 million SEEQ instruments…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Cohort Analysis, College Students, Factor Analysis