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Laura J. Muller; Melissa Eblen-Zayas – Numeracy, 2025
We developed a framework for characterizing an institution's quantitative skills/reasoning support ecosystem to consider how various activities contribute to student success in areas connected to students' quantitative preparation. Through discussions with faculty and staff stakeholders at eight selective small liberal arts colleges, we…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills, Small Colleges, Liberal Arts
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Goitse B. Ookeditse; Neo J. Molemane – Cogent Education, 2024
Postsecondary education participation is crucial for successful transition to employment, consequently leading to self-reliant and productive lives especially for students with disabilities (SWDs). This study was conducted to examine teachers' perceptions of pertinent transition components and the significance of the curriculum in promoting a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Attitudes, Transitional Programs
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Challenger, Clewiston D.; Duquette, Kevin – Professional School Counseling, 2021
This article suggests a group intervention for student-athlete boys of color who intend to play sports in college. This group is a component of a larger proposed school-wide program, the College Transition Program for Student-Athletes (CTPSA). The CTPSA's suggested group intervention offers school counselors a college readiness option to support…
Descriptors: College Programs, Transitional Programs, College Students, Student Athletes
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Nachman, Brett Ranon – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2020
This article provides a systematic review of the literature related to college transition programs for students with autism. It addresses how individual programs themselves, as well as associated research, can be enhanced to accommodate the needs, identities, and pathways of individual students with autism more effectively. Methods entailed…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Transitional Programs, Students with Disabilities
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Kallison, James M., Jr. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2017
Postsecondary transition programs have emerged to prepare adult learners to enter college with either limited or no remediation work needed in developmental education. This article examines the results of a pilot study, in which participants (ages 20 years and older who held GED® credentials or high school degrees) received accelerated instruction…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Transitional Programs, Postsecondary Education, Adult Learning
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Shaw, Stuart D.; Werno, Magda A. – College and University, 2016
This case study sought to gain a better understanding of the impact of the Cambridge Acceleration Program on students' transition from high school to college at one American university. The findings from an online questionnaire indicate that many participants develop a range of skills that are perceived as important in the context of university…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Acceleration (Education), High School Students, College Students
Relles, Stefani R.; Tierney, William G. – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2014
Students who graduate from high school who are college-ready are more likely to graduate than those who are not college-ready. The need for remediation on college campuses burdens both students and institutions with financial and opportunity costs that at best delay, and at worst impede graduation rates. At a time when workforce preparation skills…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, College Readiness, College Bound Students, Low Income Groups
Haugen, Douglas E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Over the past four decades the number of students enrolling in colleges and universities requiring at least one pre-college level course has been about one-third of all students. Underprepared students are as likely to complete their academic goals as their prepared counterparts if they are able to complete their remedial course work. This study…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, College Transfer Students, College Preparation, Summer Programs
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2013
Colleges have long had mechanisms for awarding students credit for prior learning, from evaluating transcripts to establishing standards for the units and course credit to be associated with designated scores on nationally and internationally recognized curricula and exams. While the processes for awarding credit via these traditional mechanisms…
Descriptors: College Governing Councils, Prior Learning, College Credits, Courses
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Conderman, Greg; Johnston-Rodriguez, Sarah; Hartman, Paula; Kemp, Drew – Preventing School Failure, 2013
Through a mixed-methods study, teacher education faculty members investigated the implementation of a new block of courses and an associated secondary clinical experience designed to prepare preservice secondary special educators. Seventy-three preservice candidates (a) completed then-and-now surveys assessing their confidence implementing 25…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Teacher Educators, Secondary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers
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Padgett, Ryan D.; Kilgo, Cindy A. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2012
In 2011, the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition revisited its 1999 National Survey of Senior Seminars and Capstone Courses to explore the current state of culminating experiences in American higher education. Drawn from a sample of public and private colleges and universities across the country, the…
Descriptors: National Surveys, College Seniors, Curriculum, Student Experience
Mary Stuart Hunter; Jennifer R. Keup; Jillian Kinzie; Heather Maietta – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2012
Increasing pressures on colleges and universities to ensure degree completion and job placement as measures of success make it imperative that the path to graduation is clear and that seniors receive the support needed to earn a degree and make a successful transition to life beyond college. This new edited collection describes today's college…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Student Experience, Transitional Programs, Academic Support Services
Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 2006
This report provides an in-depth look at five different programs, all of which currently, or are making efforts to, include a broad range of students. The five Credit-Based Transition Programs (CBTPs) studied are located in five states--California, Iowa, Minnesota, New York and Texas--and included two dual enrollment programs (one with a career…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Dual Enrollment, Tech Prep, Advanced Placement Programs
McLaughlin, Margaret J.; Hoffman, Amanda; Miceli, Meredith; Krezmien, Michael – Achieve, Inc., 2008
Students with disabilities represent a relatively small but important group of students in U.S. high schools. The education of these students is heavily influenced by federal and state law as well as by longstanding beliefs about the purpose of education and the extreme heterogeneity of the population. Until recently, general educational policies…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Student Evaluation, Accountability, High School Students