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Hui, Mary Margaret – ProQuest LLC, 2017
First-generation college students are students whose parents do not have a college degree, and they face numerous barriers in college. Yet, several first-generation college students (FGCS) are successful and are on-track to graduate with a bachelor's degree in four years. Their success is important because education is associated with increased…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Achievement Gap, Success, Mixed Methods Research
Cascio, Elizabeth; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007
Older children outperform younger children in a school-entry cohort well into their school careers. The existing literature has provided little insight into the causes of this phenomenon, leaving open the possibility that school-entry age is zero-sum game, where relatively young students lose what relatively old students gain. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Longitudinal Studies
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Herzog, Valerie W.; Anderson, Dennis; Starkey, Chad – Athletic Training Education Journal, 2008
Objective: To identify those factors that influence freshmen application to Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP)-accredited undergraduate ATEPs having a secondary admissions process. (All undergraduate ATEPs are now accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE)). Design and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Surveys, College Freshmen, Allied Health Occupations