GlobalSkillsCC

COMPASS is an untimed, computerized test that helps evaluate skills for placement into appropriate courses. Created by ACT.

The ASSET® Student Success System, a testing and advising program for placing students into postsecondary institutions. Created by ACT.

by James Paul Gee. In this book, the author considers more than thirty video games in his examination of their positive effects on learning. See gee tag for an article by this author.

Dr. Marisa A. Klages, Assistant Professor, Director, Outcomes Assessment, LaGuardia Community College-- CUNY

From WNYC - News. This is a transcript with a link to the MP3 (audio) file. See adding tag for related bookmarks.

Screen capture presentation tool; many of our faculty are using Camtasia for presentations.

A how-to for those who are using Camtasia.

Screen capture presentation tool that allows for closed captioning.

File backup software.

Located at Patrick Henry Community College, the Center emphasizes active learning and cooperative learning.

by David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1994. Goal structures, interaction among students, and instructional outcomes; basic elements of cooperative learning.

Program supports and disseminates innovative reform projects for improving postsecondary education.

ALP, developed at the Community College Baltimore County, is an innovative approach to basic writing programs that accelerates basic writing students through their developmental writing course and ENG 101 in one semester.

NADE seeks to improve the theory and practice of developmental education at all levels.

College Board ACCUPLACER tests provide students with useful information about academic skills in math, English, and reading. Resource for students from The College Board

Unsigned article describing cooperative learning. Includes references and links. From the Education Technology Training Center at Kennesaw State University. A "teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject."

By Rebecca S. Wheeler, Rachel Swords. This is a marketing blurb describing the text, available for sale through National Council of Teachers of English. 2006. Sample chapter and table of contents available as PDF.

By Lisa Delpit, published by W.W. Norton, 1995. The book examines issue of race in schools and cultural clashes in the classroom.

Young, Vershawn Ashanti. Published in College Composition and Communication. 55.4 (2004): 693-715. The author looks at the differences between black and white language. This page from the CCC Online Archive includes an abstract, works citing, and works cited.

From the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. A Networked Improvement Community (NIC) is aimed at dramatically increasing the proportion of community college students who are mathematically prepared to succeed.