One of six related documents, this publication contains a survey designed to gather data about the student populace that will aid in identifying areas of a U.S. Air Force extension course in which the quality of the course may be improved. A "student request for assistance" form is included. (EL)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Armed Forces, Personnel Data, Postsecondary Education, Student Needs
Students in a basic writing course at Ferris State University, an open-admissions, career-technical institution, are required to buy "The Family in America," a casebook in the Opposing Viewpoints Series. The book is suitable for a student who is struggling to write on a high school level and does not have the basic educational background to understand classic essays like, "A Modest Proposal" and "Politics of the English Language." When students complain, "I'm...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Basic Writing, Higher Education, Student Needs, Writing Improvement
The East Cleveland "Enriched and Extended School Year" program, funded by Title III of the 1965 Elementary Education Act, is an attempt to organize the educational activities of a school around the needs and learning patterns of its pupils. The major premise of the program states that children possess different rates and styles of learning, and respond to instruction more in accordance to its interest value than to its intrinsic cognitive value. The objectives of the program are to:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Needs, Armon, Edward F., Ed., And Others
This survey of 413 students in the seven county high schools provided Yavapai College with data to help it plan student personnel services. It collected data on (1) how many seniors planned to enroll in fall 1969; (2) the course they planned to take; (3) whether it was transfer or occupational; (4) whether they would attend full- or part-time; (5) what degree, if any, they aspired to; (6) what specific occupational courses they wanted; (7) where they planned to live and eat; (8) how many would...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Needs, Student Personnel Services, Surveys, Two Year Colleges
The perception of the senior year as a wasted year is a symptom of the disconnect between American public schools and what follows, whether postsecondary education or employment. Students may encounter four different sets of requirements to graduate from high school, to be admitted to college, to enroll in nonremedial college courses for credit, and to get a more than minimal job. The student who does not choose the college preparatory courses, starting with choices made as early as middle...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High School Seniors, High Schools, Program Improvement, Student Needs
During the second semester of the 1971-72 school year, a pilot effort was initiated to use Eastern Airlines personnel as volunteer teachers. With the assistance of Eastern Airlines Officials and the Dade County Public Schools Division of Instruction, six community schools in the Northeast, North Central and South Central districts were opened to the Eastern Airlines Volunteer Program. The overall goal of the project was to meet youths' requests for assistance in the areas of academic subjects,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Guidance, Experimental Programs, Professional Personnel, Student Needs,...
One of the major goals of the English class is to give the student the sort of experience that will enable him to increase his power over language. Therefore, it is illogical to try to separate oral and written skills in the classroom. Real discourse in the real world results from a real need. In the typical English class, there is no rhetorical situation. A classroom should demonstrate daily that the use of language is a way of understanding, coping with, and changing experience. The English...
Topics: ERIC Archive, English Instruction, Language Skills, Rhetoric, Student Needs, Winterowd, W. Ross
During the past year, the Diversity Committee of the Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD) Board worked with the Board and the Issues Committee Chair to develop an issue brief addressing diversity, its impact on the membership and the wider community that is served by the work of DDD, resulting in recommendations that will influence policy and program/initiative changes within DDD. The diverse membership of DDD is made up of administrators, educators, students and faculty within higher...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Developmental Disabilities, Student Diversity, Higher Education, Student Needs,...
This paper reports several activities of the Coalition for the Use of Learning Skills (CULS), an academic supportive services program directed to the needs of black and Chicano students at the University of Michigan. The CULS approach assumes that, in order to meet the demands of quality education for black students, the University must be prepared to do certain things it never did previously and to modify some of the things it has always done. The University, from this perspective, is seen as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Needs, Student Personnel Services, Universities, Yates, J. Frank, And Others
College students face challenges obtaining health insurance: they may not have access to insurance through an employer, and as they get older, they may lose dependent coverage obtained through a parent's plan. Federal law ensures continued access to health insurance for some, but not all, such students. Without health insurance, college students may be unable to pay for their health care, and the cost of this care may be passed on to federal and state payers, such as Medicaid. College students...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Health Insurance, Federal Legislation, Student Needs, Dicken, John...
There has been a dramatic increase in interest and participation in sports during the past decade, and this increase has affected the college student-athlete. Approximately 10% of American college athletes suffer from problems appropriate for counseling interventions. There is a need for counseling professionals who are sensitive to interventions for student-athletes and who can address the psychoemotional needs of the student-athlete. The digest contrasts the role of the sports counselor with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Athletes, College Athletics, College Students, Counseling Services, Higher Education,...
This document concerns the need for college and university student affairs professionals to prepare for the 21st century. It asserts that an understanding of the concept of balance can help student affairs professionals gain insight into how individual students use the academic process and the college experience for beneficial growth and development. Four presentations are included. "Student Development and the Practitioner" by Dan Abrahamowicz reviews some of the literature and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, School Personnel, Student Development,...
This brochure discusses the "Read to Achieve" initiative undertaken by the state of Colorado because Colorado faces a literacy challenge. The brochure first states the problem and then proposes the solution (Read to Achieve). It uses a colorful, easy-to-see graphic design to show how the initiative works. The brochure contends that children who receive the help they need to become proficient readers: they succeed in school; are prepared to master complex subjects; are more likely to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Grants, Literacy, Reading Achievement, Reading...
The Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology (CAATs) of Canada are discussed under the following chapter headings: I. The Post Secondary Institution in Its Community--the CAATs; II. Responsibility of the Colleges for Adult Education; III. Some Student Concerns; IV. Some Services to Students; V. Professional Staff Development; VI. Professional Training and Related Considerations; VII. New Programs and Emphases; and VIII. Research in Post-Secondary Education. Recommendations are given, and a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Community Colleges, Postsecondary Education, School Community...
Academic learning is a complex activity which is not easily modified. Several models have been used to deliver learning improvement programs, including the study skills course and the discrete skills approach. These approaches make few if any accommodations for variations in individual differences or needs. Four factors, however, indicate that individual factors may be responsible for the differential effects of skill-based programs: (1) students appear more likely to learn well when they have...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Decision Making, Individual Differences, Learning Strategies, Student Improvement,...
The findings of an assessment of urban student needs conducted by the Design Center of the New Jersey Department of Education on 155 urban educators and residents is presented in this document. The assessment activities took place within the context of an urban education conference sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Education, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Interstate Planning Project, and the Educational Improvement Center, Northeast. This post-assessment activity report also provides...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evaluation Methods, Models, Needs Assessment, Student Needs, Urban Areas, Urban...
The arts are essential to a balanced education, with specific benefits for the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development of all students, with special benefits for gifted and talented learners. Yet frequently, when school resources are limited, arts education funding is reduced or eliminated. The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) believes that arts education is fundamental to an appropriate education for gifted and talented learners and should be addressed through...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Art Education, Academically Gifted, Student Needs, Interdisciplinary Approach,...
Research in higher education attributes significant differences to the learning experiences of commuter and resident students. The literature indicates that the nature of the on-campus experience, the characteristics of the student, and the motivation for learning for the commuter student may have significant implications for educational planning. The actual number of commuter students in American higher education is in dispute. It is clear, though, that commuter students compose a larger...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Commuting Students, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Models, Student...
Literacy education concerns itself with assessing student needs and determining the appropriate methods for meeting them, without considering the ethical framework in which those "needs" find meaning. This paper argues that a notion of reflective communication, based on Jurgen Habermas's theory of "Discourse," provides an alternative ideal for literacy education that avoids reduction to political or economic function while taking into account profound social differences....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Language Role, Literacy Education, Social Differences, Student Needs, Endres,...
RESULTS OF STUDIES SUGGEST THAT STUDENTS NOT ONLY NEED OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION, THEY NEED MORE AND BETTER INFORMATION TO SUPPORT THEIR OBJECTIVES OF CAREER CHOICE, CAREER PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, AND DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF VOCATIONAL CAPABILITIES. A PROPOSED COMPREHENSIVE STRUCTURE FOR NEEDED OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION IS BASED ON A CONTINUUM WHICH REACHES BACKWARD IN TIME FROM A SKILLED WORKER ON THE JOB TOWARD THE CRADLE. IT ENCOMPASSES THE STAGES (1) JOURNEYMAN CAPABILITY WHICH NEEDS...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Guidance, Occupational Information, Program Development, Student Needs,...
This paper looks at the development and management of an intercollegiate forensics program at a small college. It first deals with the context for analyzing a program, and then discusses the analysis itself, which should provide the foundation for a program's development. Some points for program management follow, and the paper concludes with a list of potentially useful resources. The sections are as follows: (1) The Context for the Analysis; (2) Getting Started; (3) The Analysis (who is being...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Debate, Higher Education, Program Development, Public Speaking, Small Colleges,...
The general purpose of this conference was to bring together school and public librarians to discuss library service to the student, "wherever he lives, wherever or whether he attends school, and whatever his aspirations and abilities." Topics discussed at the conference include new developments and goals in service to students, impact of current programs on student services, patterns in promoting cooperative library service, the role of the Commissioner's Committee on Library...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Library Cooperation, Library Services, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Student...
The turmoil that students feel when their values are challenged is directly tied to their fear of annihilation--of death. Both are a matter of identity and the "self" for the reason that the ability to reason, invent, and separate and defend is that faculty which protects them from natural forces. So the connection between the rhetoric they construct and their essential survival in the world they build is direct in every sense of the word. The affirmation of self has been explicated...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Buddhism, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Ideology, Philosophy, Rhetoric,...
This paper contends that modern compositionist courses have successfully met the goal of training students to become socially productive citizens by teaching them to be proficient "readers" who critically examine the sources and dissemination of knowledge, but that the field has fallen short of its goal of training students to actively produce their own knowledge because it is presenting a restricted view of what it means to "write" well. The paper argues that because most...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Citizenship Education, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Rhetoric, Student...
Family support is key to healthy adolescence. A family enables children to experience attachment, belonging, competence, and self-esteem, and at the same time allows them to experience success and failure, adventure and retreat, independence and interdependence. For families who have teens with disabilities, adolescence can be especially challenging. This brief provides information about healthy adolescent development for youth with disabilities, focusing on the role of parents and families in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Needs, Parent Role, Disabilities, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Family...
Reading is the basis for learning and school success. While reading is learned primarily in the classroom, many students need extra time and help. Research shows that tutoring is a great way for individuals and groups outside school to support learning, but effective tutoring requires appropriate training and careful planning. This brochure, written in both English and Spanish, presents some basic tips for reading tutors. The brochure begins by citing ways in which tutoring helps the learner...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Difficulties,...
At any given time, tens of thousands of children and youth in the U.S. are in the foster care system. Many have been abused, neglected, or abandoned, and they face a challenging journey of uncertainty, often not knowing where they will live next, where they will go to school, or whether they will have contact with friends and relatives. Child welfare professionals work diligently to support children in foster care but typically have no access to information about what happens during a large...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Achievement Gap, Foster Care, At Risk Students, Data, Student Needs, Academic...
Nontraditional college students are causing institutions of higher learning to re-think the focus of academic and student affairs programs. Nontraditional students have needs that differ from traditional-age students. The willingness of institutions to modify existing programs and develop new services geared to adult populations will have a positive impact on their ability to attract, serve, and satisfy the educational needs of adult students. (ABL)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, College Students, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students, Student Needs,...
In recent years there has been an increased emphasis on the design of classrooms so that instructional technologies will enhance the learning environment. Good design does not happen accidentally, and when classroom designs are in the planning stages, the first priority should be the needs of the students. This paper will discuss classroom design issues that can effectively and efficiently accommodate technology for promoting learning.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Classroom Design, Student Needs, Instructional Effectiveness,...
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a relatively new diagnostic label. As more physicians become familiar with the diagnosis of this syndrome, schools will begin to see children with the label FAS and Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE). Children with FAS often do not pick up skills from their environment as easily as some of their peers. They often need to be specifically taught behaviors that other children seem to pick up naturally. These youngsters need to learn to turn Elementary Secondary Education...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention,...
This digest defines the term "communication disorders," states prevalence rates for the condition, describes characteristics of children with communication disorders, and outlines educational implications. Thirteen publications on communication disorders and six organizational resources are listed. (JDD)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Disorders, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education,...
Traditionally, student assessment has focused on measuring learner skills. Assessment of literacy needs, from the learner's perspective, is also an important part of an instructional program. This digest focuses on ways to determine what learners want or believe they need to learn. Many of the activities described can include or lead to assessment of proficiencies, and many of the sources cited include both types of assessment. Specific attention is focused on the definition of a needs...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, English (Second Language), Literacy Education, Measures (Individuals), Needs...
Djibouti is a lower middle-income country with a population of nearly one million. Despite considerable economic growth over the past 15 years, 30 percent of the population still lives in poverty. An influx of refugees from neighboring countries has created additional challenges for Djibouti's education system. With the support of the Global Partnership for Education, the Government of Djibouti will work to ensure that refugee students are included in its national education system. This brief...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Poverty, Refugees, Access to Education, Student Needs, Educational Quality,...
Teachers are faced with the challenge of making sure that their gifted students are not forgotten. This document shares three separate accounts of how three individuals assisted to better develop the talents of gifted students. The first account describes a counselor in a rural school district who selected three middle school students and took them to the nearest large city to take SAT tests. All three qualified for a summer program with high entrance standards. The second account describes a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academically Gifted, Teachers, Teacher Role, Noninstructional Responsibility, Parent...
This study was designed to determine and compare the vocational needs of junior and senior male and female teacher education students at Stout State University. It investigated 21 hypotheses as measured by the Minnesota Importance Questionnaire using a sample of 94 students. The variables on the questionnaire were recast in the form of null hypotheses for statistical testing, and a chi-squared was used on each hypothesis. The conclusions showed that both male and female subjects considered...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Questionnaires, Sex Differences, Student Needs, Teacher Education, Values, Vocational...
Traditional dormitories are out of step with the concepts of higher education that make the 4 years of college a cultural and social experience as well as a period for gathering information on academic topics. These experiences are not served well in twin-bed rooms lined along both sides of corridors that lead only to stairwells or gang bathrooms. This publication is about economical ways to provide better housing for students. It advocates humanizing existing dormitories by changing the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Housing, College Students, Design Requirements, Dormitories, Higher...
This document presents the results of an extensive study whose ultimate purpose was to identify the aggregate perceived values, needs, and aspirations of the total postsecondary nonuniversity student population in the Province of Alberta. It describes in considerable detail the needs and motivations of various groups of students enrolled in a variety of postsecondary, nonuniversity educational institutions. In doing so, the monograph also evaluates the degree of accessibility of colleges to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aspiration, Educational Opportunities, Higher Education, International Education,...
Parents and educators must recognize that culturally diverse students are gifted and culturally diverse. Like gifted students, they need to have their abilities recognized and they need to be challenged. Like diverse students, they need to have their culture (e.g., values, traditions, customs, etc.) acknowledged, respected, and otherwise affirmed. Abraham Maslow taught us that, in order to reach our full potential, we must have our basic needs met. This includes the need for safety, belonging,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academically Gifted, Student Diversity, Academic Achievement, Culturally Relevant...
Claiming that discourse has atrophied in a social climate that provides little space for reasoned discussion of vital issues, this paper explores the role the general education course in public speaking has played in the past and the role this course could play in the future in the restoration of public space. Divided into three focused sections, each section of the paper is further subdivided. Section I presents a historical survey of basic speech courses from l956-1985 to determine the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Course Content, Debate, Higher Education, Public Speaking, Student Needs, Textbook...
International Literacy Day, observed September 8 and at events throughout the week, focuses attention on worldwide literacy issues and needs. Because International Literacy Day coincides with the beginning of a new school year in many countries, classroom teachers use this special day to recognize the importance of literacy in the lives of children and adults. These information sheets provide teachers with: idea starters for International Literacy Day activities and events; a fact sheet about...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Literacy, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergent Literacy, Enrichment...
The public relations educators in the university departments that house public relations must be aware of key issues that have an impact on the quest for status and effectiveness. Failure to adhere to these concerns may turn out students who will be trapped and have a much lower level of job satisfaction. These concerns are as follows: (1) educators in disciplines offering public relations programs should be aware of what is happening in other departments offering similar programs; (2) the face...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Departments, Higher Education, Job Skills, Occupational Mobility, Professional...
A speech instructor at Owensboro Community College (Kentucky) found that his switch from the CEDA (Cross Examination Debate Association) speech tournament to the NEDA (National Education Debate Association) speech tournament was beneficial for his students. After the Highland Community College (Kentucky) tournament in January of 1994, the instructor, after years of dedication to the CEDA, began to seriously question the state of CEDA debate. Coaches avoided taking a strong stand against a host...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Debate, Debate Format, Higher Education, Public Speaking, Speech Communication,...
The word "service" certainly conjures some undesirable connotations, and theorists such as Nancy Grimm propose that writing centers need to shed their service labels to attain respectability. In this paper, the writing center director of a small liberal arts college shares her perspective and juxtaposes that with Grimm's position that writing centers should strive to become "academic units" rather than "service units" to attain academic respectability. The paper...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Proofreading, Small Colleges, Student Needs,...
People will debate for many years to come the causes and implications of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and the Pentagon (District of Columbia). In such challenging times, educators rightly wonder about their proper role. What should they teach young U.S. students? What are the implications for the K-12 curriculum and for the work of teachers? The goal of this report is to furnish constructive advice and helpful information to educators who earnestly seek to do right by...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Sources, Student Needs,...
Examples of new methods of instruction are given in this monograph, which is the third in a series of five monographs prepared by Harrisburg Area Community College to illustrate how the college is attempting to "meet the changing needs of students." Brief descriptions of several programs and the innovative methods of instruction used in them are given. The programs are A.C. circuits, accounting, data processing, developmental English, educational psychology, marketing, modern culture...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Institutional Research, Instructional Innovation, Student...
A handbook on educational programs for the handicapped is presented. The purpose of the handbook is to assist community college educators in meeting the occupational training needs of handicapped students. Areas covered include: analysis of community need, assessment of existing facilities and services, funding sources, program design, basic definitions, educational implications, personnel, public relations, exemplary programs, workshop agenda, workshop staff and workshop notes. (CK)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Workshops, Vocational Rehabilitation, Vocational Education, Student...
Summarizing the first year report of a multi-year study of the Food and Nutrition Service's (Department of Agriculture) Child Nutrition Programs, this report describes the programs and methods of the study. Data were collected through telephone interviews with states and School Food Authorities (SFAs) between 1987 and 1992. Findings from 1987-1988 data include the following: (1) approximately 39.7 percent of all school lunches were served free to low income children; (2) 6.6 percent were served...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Educational Resources, Federal...
The question of whether the study of English is good preparation for business distracts attention from the more critical question of whether business is a good place to continue to study English. Three projects undertaken by a Ph.D. in Old and Middle English working for a freight railroad suggest that there are possibilities. As part of his job, he worked on a corporate history, read and studied in the field of labor dispute resolution, spent time on the railroad translating labor agreements...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College English, Employment Experience, English Instruction, Higher Education,...
Religion has a positive role to play in institutions of learning. Public schools should not be afraid to openly explore ways of accommodating religious practices. This thesis aims to challenge and change those attitudes that uncritically push for the strict separation of church and state. The thesis examines the development of religious diversity and the historical relationship between religion and education. It examines the relevant Supreme Court cases that deal with issues of public education...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Policy, Public Schools, Religion, State Church Separation, Student Needs,...
States across the country have always established their own academic standards, curricula, and achievement goals. What students are expected to know and be able to do often differs from state to state. Additionally, states with low standards may leave students unprepared for higher standards in other states. This inconsistency creates problems for children from military families, who must move and change schools frequently as their parents are reassigned. This brief report explains how moving...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Military Personnel, Student Mobility, Common Core State Standards, Educational...
