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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Associate vs. Bachelor Degree In Nursing
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There are a number of constraints to the provision of appropriate care including financial considerations, the shortage of nurses and the differences in settings. This 6 page paper argues that nurses should be paid according to ability and experience rather than educational level. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Attracting the Older Student/The Latest Trend in Higher Education
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A 35 page research paper that examines the changing face of higher education in this country. Over the last decade, a trend has developed that is shifting the emphasis in higher education away from the traditional concept of teaching 18 to 22 year olds, right out of high school, to meeting the needs of the adult professional who wishes to either expand his or her knowledge base in their field, or increase their chances for advancement through further education. The writer examines the ramifications of this trend and argues that it is likely to continue. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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Automated Attendance Systems
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A 5 page paper that provides an overview of the problems related to establishing attendance tracking technologies in a college setting, provides a list of possible equipment necessary and considers student reaction to this process.
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Autonomy And Control In Higher Education
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It seems as though the underlying issue for many of the problems that arise between administration and faculty or between the administration of the President with that of the State Higher Education is centered on the parameters of autonomy. This 5 page paper provides information from the literature pursuant to this issue. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Betting to Lose - Illegal Sports Gambling on America's Campuses
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A 5-page paper that examines the causes and concerns of widespread illegal sports gambling practices among America's college and university students. Discussed is the nature of this problem and the steps that are being considered to resolve it. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Binge Drinking on College Campuses:
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This 8 page paper discusses the social problem of binge drinking on college campuses. This paper examines the roots of this problem as well as the impact on the students and society. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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