An Assessment of Curriculum Design Strategies
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This 12 page paper looks at different curriculum design models outlines their framework and assesses their strengths and weaknesses for application in educational establishments. The models include the product or objectives model associated with Tyler, but subsequently improved, Hirst’s curriculum content model, the process model associated with Stenhouse and the situational model Lawton and Skilbeck. The bibliography cites 14 sources.
Filename: TEcurdes.rtf

Apollo Group: University of Phoenix
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A 5 page paper discussing the grand strategy of the Apollo Group, of which University of Phoenix is a part. The advantages of the grand strategy far outweigh the disadvantages. As one of the first organizations to offer extensive distance education using the Internet as a medium, University of Phoenix is the country's leading online university. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: KSstratApollo.rtf

Application Essay: Community College Dean
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A 3 page application essay for the position of academic dean at a community college. The community college occupies a position from which it can act as a liaison agent between business and the local community. Changing roles enable the community college to become a facilitator for community development, thereby contributing to positive growth of the entire surrounding area. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KSeduCommunCol.rtf

Applying TQM In Higher Education Institutions
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A 9 page paper that explores the application of total quality management principles in a hypothetical higher education institution. The writer first provides an overview of Deming's principles, then discusses the problems facing the college of business at a university. A framework is then designed that utilizes the principles. Comments from writers who do not believe TQM can work in this setting are reported along with a dispute of these comments. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PGtqmuni.rtf

Are Principals Prepared for the Business Aspects of Running a School?
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This 13 page paper provides an overview of a study of principals regarding whether they were adequately prepared to handle the business aspects of running a school in their college or university coursework. This paper integrates a methodology for the study and an approach to understanding the overall issue of the changing role of the school principal. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: MHPrinc5.rtf

Asian American Studies at the University Level
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This 5 page report discusses the historical, political, and social development of Asian American studies at the university and college level. As with virtually any academic pursuit, the world of Asian American studies has developed, changed, redefined itself and continued to move forward as its own unique, educational discipline. The movement supporting ethnic and women's studies bean in the late 1960s as university people -- students, faculty, and staff, began to recognize that university curricula generally did not consider or appropriately respond to the diversity of American society, especially racial minorities, women, and the working class. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: BWstudaswps

Assessing and Enhancing Research Design Validity
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An 8 page paper discussing descriptive research design. Research in education is unique among disciplines employing empirical methods in that it so frequently addresses issues that are mutable according to populations, administrative structure, external societal conditions or other qualities. Well-designed research can stand as relevant for decades, but lesser efforts may or may not be useful in practice at any time. The purpose here is to evaluate the methodology described in this paper, evaluating it on several points. Those points include internal and external validity, construct validity and statistical conclusion validity. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: KSvalidF01.wps

Assessing Quality in Distance Learning at the Graduate Level
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A 7 page paper discussing the need for quality assessment in Internet graduate programs. Most evaluation of college programs available online has been centered on economics and the ability to reach a greater number of students. There has been much less focus on the quality of the education gained through the approach. A University of Illinois study has determined that the quality of education gained through an online-only approach is of less value than that gained in the traditional educational setting. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: KSdistanceCon.wps