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Email Invitation And Survey For Faculty Whose Experience Has Mostly Been With Actual Vertical Transfer Students, Alexandra W. Logue, Vita Rabinowitz, Yoshiko Oka, Nayeon Yoo, Rhina Torres, Kerstin Gentsch, David Wutchiett

Publications and Research

Copy of survey used for faculty whose experience has mostly been with actual vertical transfer (bachelor's-degree) students, along with email sent to faculty inviting them to complete the survey.

Exploring The Need For Additional Title Ix Education And Training, Maria K. Lamiotte

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This quantitative study explores the differences between students, faculty, and staff about the need for additional Title IX education and training at a community college in Southeastern Connecticut from the four-level construct of the Social-Ecological Model of sexual misconduct prevention. This paper analyzed the existing literature on sexual misconduct education and training across higher education institutions, specifically related to community colleges nationwide. The literature was limited, related to community colleges. The data analysis explored the differences between students, faculty, and staff’s gender, sexual orientation, and college status about the need for additional Title IX education and training using archival data …

Unequal Usage: Geographic Disparities And The Michigan Reconnect Program, Kyle Huisman, Kathleen Bolter

Reports

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The Dialectic Transformation Of Teaching And Learning In Community Colleges Through Ungrading., Grace Pai, Jennifer Corby, Nicole Kras, Dusana Podlucká, Midori Yamamura

Publications and Research

As five Andrew J. Mellon Transformative Learning in the Hu-manities Faculty Fellows in the City University of New York, we capture in this essay the dialectical experience of ungrading our community college courses with our students. Drawing on case examples of implementing un-grading in a range of courses and a thematic analysis of our students’ reflec-tion submissions of being ungraded, we argue that ungrading is an effective pedagogical tool for debunking a deficits-based, outcomes-focused perspec-tive that is pervasive in studies on and of community college students. Through various ways of building student agency, self-reflection, and feed-back into our courses, we …

Still A Private Universe? Community College Students’ Understanding Of Evolution, Meredith A. Dorner, Philip Sadler, Brian Alters

Education Faculty Articles and Research

Background

Measuring what students know and retain about evolution is essential to improving our understanding of how students learn evolution. The literature shows that college students appear to have a poor understanding of evolution, answering questions on various instruments correctly only about half of the time. There is little research regarding evolution understanding among community college students and so this study examines if those students who are enrolled in life science classes, who are assessed using questions based on grade eight standards, show a better understanding of evolutionary principles than younger students and if there are differences in knowledge based …

Annotated Bibliographies, Brian Nudelman

Research Skills

This handout provides guidelines to help students construct an annotated bibliography including an MLA-formatted citation, a summary paragraph, and an evaluation for each source.

Notes On Quotes: Special Circumstances, Sue Kuykendall

Research Skills

This handout provides information about managing special circumstances regarding quotation.

Synthesis Of Research, Angela Gulick

Research Skills

This handout provides information about synthesizing or blending different perspectives together in research writing. It consists of tips and examples of research paragraphs using synthesis.

Paraphrasing Sources, Angela Gulick

Research Skills

This handout provides step-by-step instructions on how to paraphrase information from sources.

Summaries 2, Sue Kuykendall

Research Skills

This handout provides information on the different types of summaries and how to write them.

Direct Quotations, Angela Gulick

Research Skills

This handout provides step-by-step information on using direct quotations.

Summaries 1, Lori Williams

Research Skills

This handout provides step-by-step instructions on how to write a summary.

Paraphrasing, Summarizing, And Quoting Sources, Angela Gulick

Research Skills

This handout provides a chart that compares paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting sources.

Formal Outlines: Analyzing An Argumentative Topic And Outlining An Argument, Sue Kuykendall

Research Skills

This handout provides information about analyzing and argumentative topic and provides an outline format for an academic argument.

Academic Research Papers - Helpful Hints, Lori Williams

Research Skills

This handout provides guidelines to help students construct an academic research paper.

Personal Statements For College Applications And Scholarships, Angela Gulick

Personal Statements for College Applications and Scholarships

This handout, complied by the author and Writing Lab Faculty, presents suggestions on how to write a personal statement for a college application.

Sample Personal Statement #1 For College Application, Deanna Williams

Personal Statements for College Applications and Scholarships

This handout provides an example of a personal statement for a college application.

Sample Personal Statement #2 For College Application, Angela Gulick

Personal Statements for College Applications and Scholarships

This handout provides an example of a personal statement for a college application.

Apostrophes, Angela Gulick

Punctuation

This instructional handout provides tips for how to determine when to use apostrophes.

Semicolons And Colons, Angela Gulick

Punctuation

This handout provides examples showing appropriate use of semicolons and colons.

Comma Splices, Angela Gulick

Punctuation

This handout provides examples showing appropriate use of comma splices.

Colons, Angela Gulick

Punctuation

This handout provides examples showing appropriate use of colons.

Quotation Marks, Angela Gulick

Punctuation

This handout provides examples showing appropriate use of quotation marks.

Run-On Sentences, Angela Gulick

Punctuation

This handout provides an overview and examples of run-on sentences suggesting ways to fix them.

Commas, Angela Gulick

Punctuation

This handout provides examples showing appropriate use of commas.

Punctuation Overview, Lori Williams, Sally Wallace

Punctuation

This handout provides a brief overview of when to use various punctuation marks, including: periods, question marks, exclamation points, commas, semicolons, colons, hyphens, quotation marks, single quotation marks, apostrophes, ellipses, dashes, and brackets.

Apa Formatting For A Student Paper, Angela Gulick

APA (American Psychological Association) Documentation

A handout about how to format a student paper according to the American Psychological Association (APA) style, 7th edition.

Apa Sample References Page, Angela Gulick

APA (American Psychological Association) Documentation

This handout has general reminders about the APA System of Documentation.

Apa Formatting For A Professional Manuscript, Angela Gulick

APA (American Psychological Association) Documentation

A handout about formatting a professional manuscript according to the American Psychological Association (APA) style, 7th edition.

Apa References For Audiovisual Sources, Angela Gulick

APA (American Psychological Association) Documentation

This handout provides guidelines for in-text citations for audiovisual sources (films, television, YouTube, webinars, etc.) for papers requiring American Psychological Association (APA) style, 7th edition.