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  • Outcomes-based curriculum reform in a community college : a discipline based inquiry

    Creator:
    Meier, Rebecca Anne
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    The purpose of this study was to examine how faculty curriculum committees from different disciplines moved through a major curriculum change process from content-focused curriculum to outcomes-based curriculum. Data was gathered through direct observations, committee member interviews, a questionnaire, and the Gregorc Style Delineator from four curriculum committees representing different...
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    ............................ 111 An Experienced Automotive Instructor................ 114 COMPUTER iNFORMATION SYSTEMS (CIS

  • Factor patterns that foster or impede distance education in Washington State community and technical colleges

    Creator:
    Baker, Ronald L.
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    This study was conducted to develop a holistic understanding of distance education by identifying factors and patterns of factors that foster or impede distance education. The Washington State Community and Technical College System provided the context for the investigation of four primary questions: 1. What is the community and technical...
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    Council of Education CODE Coordinators of Distance Education CTC Communications Technology Center

  • Staff perceptions of a participatory strategic planning process at one community college

    Creator:
    McDermott, Eve L.
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    The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of participants involved in one community college's strategic planning process in which faculty, administrators, and staff at all levels of the organization were encouraged to participate. Data were collected through direct observation, focus group interviews, analysis of institutional documents, and...
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    community college may not be able to afford. 2. Corporate giants in the communications industry have the

  • Transitioning from content centered instruction to student centered learning : a qualitative study of one community college instructor's experience

    Creator:
    Stevens, Malia L.
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    For the past 100 years, the prominent instructional model for all public education in the United States has been teacher/content centered with the intent of covering a discrete body of knowledge in a given period of time. As the end of the twentieth century approaches, natural, social, political, and economic...
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    experience, systems theory, instructional systems theory, organizational development, and communications

  • Autistic conflict in higher education

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    Murray-Ritchie, Susan K.
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    This study documents three cases of protracted conflict in an institution of higher education. Work groups in conflict were studied for one year in order to create cases and to describe factors influencing conflict escalation. From these cases, autistic conflict as a descriptive construct was developed to illustrate one phase...
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    ) states that autism is characterized by impairment of social interaction, impairment of communication