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Building upon the Conceptualisation of Alternative Education in Ireland
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Tanja Kovacic; Cormac Forkan – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
Young people who are either at risk of disengaging or disengaged from mainstream education in Ireland are often supported by what is termed 'out-of-school' or the 'alternative education' sector. A recent review of out-of-school education provision (Department of Education. 2022. "Review of Out-of-School Educational Provision." Dublin:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Education, Inclusion, Mainstreaming
The Massachusetts Community College Performance-Based Funding Formula: A New Model for New England?
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Salomon-Fernandez, Yves – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2014
The Massachusetts community college system is entering a second year with funding for each of its 15 schools determined using a new performance-based formula. Under the new model, 50% of each college's allocation is based on performance on metrics related to enrollment and student success, with added incentives for "at-risk" students…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Funding Formulas, Performance Based Assessment, Models
Community College Student Engagement Patterns: A Typology Revealed through Exploratory Cluster Analysis
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Saenz, Victor B.; Hatch, Deryl; Bukoski, Beth E.; Kim, Suyun; Lee, Kye-hyoung; Valdez, Patrick – Community College Review, 2011
This study employs survey data from the Center for Community College Student Engagement to examine the similarities and differences that exist across student-level domains in terms of student engagement in community colleges. In total, the sample used in the analysis pools data from 663 community colleges and includes more than 320,000 students.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Community Colleges, Classification, Multivariate Analysis
Formation of Community College Clusters Using the CCSSE Benchmarks for Extra-Large Community Colleges
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Hurley, Rodney G. – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2009
This study used the five benchmarks from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) to form clusters of colleges within the CCSSE classification of extra-large community colleges (greater than or equal to 15,000 students). Cluster analysis produced a five-cluster solution for the 48 identified extra-large community colleges. Using…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Size, Cluster Grouping, Multivariate Analysis
Measuring the Accountability of CTE Programs: Factors that Influence Postcollege Earnings among Community College Students
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Maguire, Kenneth J.; Starobin, Soko S.; Laanan, Frankie Santos; Friedel, Janice N. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2012
In this study specific factors were examined to determine their ability to influence fifth-year earnings of community college students in the Manufacturing/Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) career cluster and the Arts/Audiovisual/Technology/ Communication career cluster. State and national data sets from Iowa's Management…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Community Colleges, College Students, Economic Status
The Bird's Eye View of Community Colleges: A Behavioral Typology of First-Time Students Based on Cluster Analytic Classification
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Bahr, Peter Riley – Research in Higher Education, 2010
The development of a typology of community college students is a topic of long-standing and growing interest among educational researchers, policy-makers, administrators, and other stakeholders, but prior work on this topic has been limited in a number of important ways. In this paper, I develop a behavioral typology based on students'…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Research, Enrollment Trends, Classification