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Volume 8, Number 1
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 Virginia Currency, 1777 |
Training Spotting: An
American Observes Occupational Learning in England |
English further education and American higher education and continuing education institutions have valuable lessons to teach each other. American community colleges can learn from English standards and assessment practices and innovative partnerships. English further education institutions can learn from Americans' emphasis on accessibility to education. |
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Drama in the Developmental Classroom: August
Wilson’s A Piano Lesson as Text By Carrie Dorsey |
Dorsey shares her practice of using a written play to connect the knowledge students bring to the classroom with Howard Gardner’s concept of multiple intelligences. |
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Examining the Relationship between Student Scores
on the National Council Licensing Examination for Registered Nurses
(NCLEX-RN) and the Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) By Barbara B. Laird |
Laird studies the relationship between two computerized nursing tests and finds a relationship between the two sets of scores. |
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Characteristics of Successful Adult Distance
Instructors for Adult Learners By Nora N. Smith |
Smith probes the relationship between the characteristics of older adult learners and the teaching success of distance educators. |
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Community Colleges in America: A Historical
Perspective By Richard L. Drury |
Drury traces the development of community colleges in America from their earliest days through modern times. |
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A Survey of VCCS Colleges’ Local Boards By Victoria D. Malick |
Malick makes recommendations for local boards based on a recent VCCS survey which sought to determine how the State Governing Board could assist and support the members of the local boards in their role as advisors to their presidents and institutions. |
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A Study of Native Spanish Speakers’ Writing in
English for Teachers By Todd O. Williams |
This essay will be helpful to those with little Spanish background who are teaching Spanish-speaking, particularly Mexican, students or writers who are writing in English as their second language. |
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Students’ Perspectives on Foreign Language Anxiety By Renée von Wörde |
Von Wörde identifies those factors which may contribute to anxiety and those which may reduce anxiety in learning a second language. |
ViewpointsThis new column welcomes diverse opinions on topics of concern to VCCS faculty, staff, administrators, and students. In each issue of Inquiry, we will pose a question that invites a variety of responses and publish several of these in the following issue of the journal. |
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Are Dual Enrollment Classes in the Best Interest
of Our Students? By Alan M. Harris |
Dual enrollment classes offer advantages to colleges and students alike. |
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Is Dual Enrollment in the Best Interest of Our
Students? By Earl Simpson |
Simpson argues that in dual enrollment all the advantages appear to be on the side of the community college. |
