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Institutional Effectiveness and Student Success: A Study of High- and Low-Impact Community Colleges
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Jenkins, Davis – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
There has been little research on institutional effectiveness at community colleges. A key challenge is how to compare colleges that serve students with widely varying characteristics. Using transcript-level data on over 150,000 Florida community college students, we estimated the effect on the graduation, transfer, and persistence rates of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Effectiveness, Minority Groups, School Effectiveness