Community College Review articles from June 1998

Community College Review archives from June 1998

Learning Styles, Classroom Environment Preferences, Teaching Styles, and Remedial Course Outcomes for Underprepared Adults at a Two-Year College.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1998... Sixty-one adult (age 25 and over) and 95 traditional-age (ages 18 through 24) two-year college students responded to a battery of instruments (Adult Classroom Environment Scale, Adaptive Style Inventory, Principles of Adult Learning Scale, and...

Teaching Writing in Community Colleges: A Situated View of How Adults Learn to Write in Computer-Based Writing Classrooms.
June 22, 1998... Traditional models of writing focus on steps learners should take to produce writing without considering the learning context and its affect on the process. Proponents of situated cognition argue that adult cognitive processes can be better...

Today's Transfer Students: Who Are They?(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1998... The author used statewide databases to examine a sample of students who transferred from North Carolina's community colleges to its public universities in 1993. Identified by social security numbers, students were classified by program codes as...

The Two Doors to the Community College Presidency.
June 22, 1998... This experience-based analysis of applying for, interviewing for, and attaining the community college presidency focuses on whether an applicant is an inside candidate (from the institution advertising the vacancy) or an outside candidate (from...

Sorting, Supporting, Connecting, and Transforming: Intervention Strategies for Students at Risk.
June 22, 1998... The author reviews the literature on strategies for serving students considered to be at risk because they need assistance to succeed academically and socially at the college level. After reviewing the changing demographic and functional...

Border Talk: Writing and Knowing in the Two-Year College.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Border Talk: Writing and Knowing in the Two-Year College by Howard B. Tinberg. National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, Illinois. 1997, 95 pages. $19.95. ISBN 0-8141-0378-2 An increasing number of scholars in higher education are...