Improvement of Persistence to Remain in School by Potential Dropouts of Community College Students through the Evaluation of a General Education Program. Final Report.

Institution	Macomb County Community Coll., Warren, MI.
Titel	Improvement of Persistence to Remain in School by Potential Dropouts of Community College Students through the Evaluation of a General Education Program. Final Report.
Quelle	(1968), (327 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Ability; Community Colleges; Course Objectives; Experimental Curriculum; General Education; Higher Education; Persistence; Potential Dropouts; Student Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausdauer
Abstract	The majority of students entering Macomb County Community College enroll in the liberal arts curriculum with the intention of earning college credits and transferring to a 4-year institution. But many of these freshmen are "latent terminal" students with poor to average high school grades and low SCAT or ACT scores who fail in their chosen curriculum and leave college between the first and second semesters. The Educational and Cultural Development (ECD) Program, which began in the fall of 1965, is a broad, integrated, 1-year general education curriculum that is structured to provide a successful and productive educational experience in a highly personalized environment. ECD students enroll in 5 courses, on a block schedule basis: social science, natural science, communications, humanities, and orientation. A larger number of students in 2 groups that successfully completed the ECD Program have earned more credits and higher grades in a shorter length of time than a comparison group of regular liberal arts students and those who persisted into their second year continued to achieve ahead of the liberal arts group. This report presents the theoretical structure and description of the ECD Program, the rationale on which it is based, faculty team reports on the 5 areas of study, and a detailed evaluation. The final recommendations are presented to those who might wish to incorporate any or all of them into a new or existing program. (WM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01