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Robert M. Johnstone – Educational Considerations, 2025
This article explores utilizing a post-graduation success lens to help community college leaders frame the challenges of achieving equitable improvement for their students. Specifically, it posits that providing and exploring customized labor market data presented in an accessible format can help institutional leaders provide a "true…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Graduates, Outcomes of Education, Success
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Jacob A. Kamer; Terry T. Ishitani – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2024
This study investigated the likelihood of bachelor's degree completion among nontraditional-aged transfer students. Using national data from the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study, this study provided insight into the success of first-time nontraditional-aged students who initially enrolled at a community college and transferred…
Descriptors: Transfer Students, Nontraditional Students, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Attainment
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Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2021
These are the appendices to the report, "Using High School Data to Predict College Success in Palau" (ED610714). Prior research, particularly for the United States, has shown that earning a community college credential increases an individual's likelihood of gaining stable employment, earning a living wage, and working in a higher-paying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Readiness, High School Students, College Preparation
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Kalkbrenner, Mike; Hernández, Thomas J. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
The prevalence of school shootings and other campus violence incidents have called attention to the increasing number of college students who are living with Mental Health Disorders (MHDs). There is a substantial amount of literature on MHDs among college students who are attending 4-year universities. However, the literature is lacking research…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Risk, Mental Health, Mental Health Programs
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Friedel, Janice Nahra; Friesleben, Kelly L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Postbaccalaureate reverse transfer students (PRTSs) are students that enroll at a community college after completion of at least a bachelor's degree. This study expanded the definition of PRTSs by including students that had completed an associate's degree prior to enrolling at a community college. This report is an exploratory, descriptive study…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Demography, Educational Background
Liu, Vivian Yuen Ting – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2016
Facilitating student transfer from two-year to four-year institutions has been a focus of research and policy in recent years. Much less attention has been given to the phenomenon of four-year to two-year (4-2) college transfer. About 16 percent of students who begin in a four-year college transfer to a two-year college within six years. Using…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, Labor Market, Educational Benefits, Outcomes of Education
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Waktola, Daniel K. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
This study attempted to analyze the drop out problem from spatial perspectives within the context of East Los Angeles Community College, California. Selected urban land-use types, which positively and negatively influence the propensity to drop out or persist-in colleges, were selected and captured during a global positioning system (GPS)-based…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropout Characteristics, Land Use, Urban Environment
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Rabitoy, Eric R.; Hoffman, John L.; Person, Dawn R. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2015
This study evaluated variables associated with academic preparation and student demographics as predictors of academic achievement through participation in supplemental instruction (SI) programs for community college students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields. The findings suggest a differential impact of SI outcome for…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Demography, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables
Koledoye, Kimberly A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Purpose: One purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which a difference was present in the STEM degree attainment of all students and particularly of URMs between the 2001 and the 2009 academic year. The second purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which a difference was present in the attainment of STEM associate…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Degrees, Educational Attainment, Disproportionate Representation
Stewart, Sarah – Hezel Associates, 2015
Acting as the lead agency for the "National STEM Consortium" (NSC), Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) engaged Hezel Associates to provide an independent program and impact evaluation of the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL)-funded STEM certificate initiative. This report is comprehensive and covers the findings from all 4 years of the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Program Evaluation, Consortia, Community Colleges
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Oon, Pey-Tee; Subramaniam, R. – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
This study examines physics teachers' views on factors that contribute to the declining interest in physics among school students. A total of 190 physics teachers from 91 secondary schools and nine junior colleges in Singapore participated in this study, which used a survey instrument to seek their views. Rasch analysis was used to analyze the…
Descriptors: Graduates, Physics, Foreign Countries, Males
Garman, Deanna Essington – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if there were significant differences in student success in face-to-face and online biology courses as categorized by gender, major, and age; and as measured by lecture grades, lab grades, and final course grades. The data used for analyses included data from 170 face-to-face sections and 127…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Success, Online Courses, Intermode Differences
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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
McNeely, Abigail Rankin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The study herein compares students in a metropolitan community college on dimensions of wellness based on age, sex/gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. The Five Factor Wellness Evaluation of Lifestyle-Adult Version (Myers & Sweeney, 2005), which is based on the Indivisible Self model (Myers & Sweeney, 2005), along with the Barratt…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Measures (Individuals), Community Colleges, College Students
Jones, LaTonya S. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Compared to other races, the college achievement gap is largest between Black men and women where females earn twice as many degrees as their male counterparts (National Center for Education Statistics, 2010, Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities). Many Black men attempt college and eventually drop out forfeiting their…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Colleges, Academic Degrees, Phenomenology
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