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Amy Overbay; Christopher W. Thurley – Writing Center Journal, 2024
As institutions cope with the difficult task of managing scarce resources to support student learning, college writing centers, like other student services, need to be able to articulate and, at times, quantify the benefits they offer the populations they serve. This study examined outcomes associated with visiting the writing center at one…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Academic Achievement
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Ndudi O. Ezeamuzie; Jessica S. C. Leung; Dennis C. L. Fung; Mercy N. Ezeamuzie – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Computational thinking is derived from arguments that the underlying practices in computer science augment problem-solving. Most studies investigated computational thinking development as a function of learners' factors, instructional strategies and learning environment. However, the influence of the wider community such as educational…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Predictor Variables, Computation, Thinking Skills
Fink, John; Myers, Taylor; Sparks, Daniel; Jaggars, Shanna Smith – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2021
This brief summarizes findings from a study in which we examined postsecondary college transcript and degree records from hundreds of thousands of transfer-intending community college students in three states. Our aim was to explore and test metrics that could be useful in the formative assessment of efforts to improve STEM transfer outcomes. Our…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Two Year College Students, College Transfer Students, Academic Records
Damrow, Roberta J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This quantitative study examined college enrollment considerations of dual-enrollment students enrolling at one Wisconsin credit-granting technical college. A combined college-choice theoretical framework guided this quantitative study that addressed two research questions: To what extent, if any, did the number of dual credits predict likelihood…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Graduates, College Credits, Technical Institutes