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A Northwest Indian College expert provides a check list to make assessment easier and more effective for tribal colleges.
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Tribal College Faculty Attitudes Toward Accommodations and Services for Students with Disabilities
Higher percentages of disabilities have been reported among Indian people than other ethnic groups. If Indian persons with disabilities are to have access comparable to others, tribal colleges will need to provide accommodations and services. Therefore, this was a study of tribal college faculty willingness to provide accommodations and their attitudes toward accommodations.
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Making Math Relevant: Students and teachers help each other through a Montana State University program
Montana State University helps make math meaningful for Indian students and their teachers.
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Tribal College Student Attitudes Toward Accommodations for Students with Learning Disabilities
The purpose of this study was to determine whether students attending a tribal college supported efforts to provide accommodations for students with learning disabilities.
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Teaching to Empower: Tribal colleges must promote leadership and self determination in their reservations
Oglala Lakota College President Elgin Bad Wound makes the case for tribal colleges’ promotion of leadership and self-determination on their reservations.
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Teaching Adults: Tribal colleges must respond to the unique needs — and talents —of adult students
Gary Conti and Robert Fellenz of Montana State University argue that tribal colleges are centers for adult education.
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Every Teacher a Researcher; Every Classroom a Laboratory
K. Patricia Cross, the Elizabeth and Edward Conner Professor of Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley, offers some suggestions about what instructors can do in their own classrooms to “make teaching more professional, more productive, and more intellectually satisfying.”
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How South Dakota Teachers See Learning Style Differences
A study of South Dakota elementary teachers and aides to investigate whether internalized beliefs influence how they teach reading and language arts to elementary children.
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Educating Urban Indians
Getting urban-based Indians into college is a difficult task.
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Learning Styles and Native American Students
A study of learning preferences of students at Bay Mills Community College.
