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Transfer Velocity Project: Key Findings on Student Transfer in California Community Colleges
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Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group), 2010
Which factors promote student transfer from California Community Colleges (CCC) to baccalaureate-granting institutions? How do community college practices support this transition? Which student behaviors and characteristics particularly facilitate their movement to four-year colleges and universities? The Research and Planning Group for California…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Educational Policy, Research Projects, Student Behavior
The Development of a Leadership Orientation Scale on the SVIB for Women
Casey, Timothy J. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1975
The SVIB was administered to the entire freshperson class at a midwestern college for women. Results showed leaders responded "like" to about 90 percent of the scale items, whereas nonleaders responded "like" to only about 10 percent. The scale is designed to assist counselors in aiding women to plan their extracurricular…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Extracurricular Activities, Females, Higher Education
Using Institutional Variables to Predict Success in the Acquisition of Sponsored Projects.
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Monahan, Thomas C.; Fortune, Jim C. – Research Management Review, 1995
A study of 163 colleges and universities examined 33 variables seen as incentives for faculty to engage in sponsored research. Results suggest a small predictive relationship between released time to write proposals, reduced faculty loads to work on funded projects, availability of graduate and research assistants, return of some direct costs to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Workload, Graduate Students, Grantsmanship
Granting Agency Criteria for Awarding Graduate Research Scholarships.
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O'Brecht, Michael; Pihl, Robert O. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1991
A survey of seven Canadian research granting agencies concerning weighting of criteria in applications for graduate student awards found undergraduate grades were heavily weighted. However, literature on early career indicators suggests this is not an effective predictor of future research productivity. Strategies for improving use of predictive…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Financial Aid Applicants, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
NIH FIRST Awards: Testing Background Factors for Funding against Peer Review.
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Emery, Judy A.; And Others – SRA Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1992
A study investigated the factor(s) predicting success in receiving National Institutes of Health (NIH) First Independent Research Support and Transition (FIRST) funding. Two analytical models were used with a variety of researcher, methodology, project design, and institutional characteristics as variables. No significant predictor variables were…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Financial Support
Moving On: A Cooperative Study of Student Transfer.
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Jones, Janis Cox; Lee, Beth S. – Research in Higher Education, 1992
A 3-institution study investigated the effectiveness of transfer of 1,786 Los Rios Community College students to the University of California at Davis and California State University at Sacramento, measured by student preparation, persistence, and performance before and after transfer. Need for remediation. before transfer was also examined.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Administration, College Preparation