Guidelines for Two-Year College Learning Resources Programs (1972) and Quantitative Standards for Two-Year Learning Resources Programs (1979) were adopted and published by leading national learning resources organizations as criteria recommended as useful for improving the quality of two-year college learning resources programs. Guidelines and Standards were developed by committees of learning resources people who relied on suggestions from interested practitioners in the field, and on the professional knowledge and opinions of members of the committees themselves. There is no requirement that Guidelines or Standards are to be used, and the decision to use them remains with the individual colleges. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which Guidelines has been used and Standards would be used in two-year colleges in the United States. / The method of research was the descriptive survey sent to a random sample of two-year colleges in the United States. The survey instrument was developed by the researcher to determine the differences in the use of Guidelines and Standards among the chief learning resources officers of the three types of colleges surveyed, and to learn something about the purposes for which the criteria were used. / The researcher found that fewer than half of the respondents had made significant use of Guidelines or planned to make significant use of Standards. The researcher further found that fewer than one-third of the respondents felt that their college administrations supported the use of Guidelines or Standards as evidence of educational accountability or as evidence of a quality learning resources program. / Based on the findings, the researcher asked questions which may be summarized as follows: "Are the national learning resources organizations that adopted Guidelines and Standards satisfied with the extent of use and support indicated by the study, or do they see a need to revise the criteria to make them more useful?" / The researcher recommended that future revisions of Guidelines and Standards be based on needs identified by the colleges that will use the criteria, and that such revisions be aimed at analyzing the educational effectiveness of the learning resources programs at individual colleges as a basis for demonstrating more realistic evidence of need. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-07, Section: A, page: 2967. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74242 |
| Contributors | WIGGINS, JAMES DONALD., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 145 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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