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Yanagiura, Takeshi – Community College Review, 2023
Objective: This study examines how accurately a small set of short-term academic indicators can approximate long-term outcomes of community college students so that decision-makers can take informed actions based on those indicators to evaluate the current progress of large-scale reform efforts on long-term outcomes, which in practice will not be…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Educational Indicators, Outcomes of Education
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Roessger, Kevin M.; Eisentrout, Kjirsten; Hevel, Michael S. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Informed by self-directed learning theory, we explored the relationship between community college students' ages and their use of academic advising. Although academic advising has been shown to be an important part of student success, few studies have explored academic advising at community colleges and among adult learners. We performed…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Age Differences, Two Year College Students, Correlation
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Whatley, Melissa – Community College Review, 2021
Objective: The purpose of this study is twofold. First, this study explores individual student characteristics, specifically those related to demographics, financial need, academic characteristics, and social and cultural capitals, related to study abroad participation among community college students. Second, this study identifies when over the…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Study Abroad, Student Characteristics
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Rentz, Bradley; Holquist, Samantha E.; Arens, Sheila A.; Stuit, David; Rhinesmith, Evan; Nicotera, Anna; Plotz, Margot – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2021
The Palau Ministry of Education and Palau Community College are aligning their education systems to better prepare students for college. Research on the high school academic preparation variables that predict college success is limited for students in Palau. Using data from Palau's Ministry of Education and Palau Community College, this study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Readiness, High School Students, College Preparation
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Rentz, Bradley; Holquist, Samantha E.; Arens, Sheila A.; Stuit, David; Rhinesmith, Evan; Nicotera, Anna; Plotz, Margot – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2021
The Palau Ministry of Education and Palau Community College are aligning their education systems to better prepare students for college. Research on the high school academic preparation variables that predict college success is limited for students in Palau. Using data from Palau's Ministry of Education and Palau Community College, this study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Readiness, High School Students, College Preparation
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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
Cools, Angela; Fernández, Raquel; Patacchini, Eleonora – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
This paper studies the effect of exposure to female and male "high-achievers" in high school on the long-run educational outcomes of their peers. Using data from a recent cohort of students in the United States, we identify a causal effect by exploiting quasi-random variation in the exposure of students to peers with highly educated…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, High Achievement, High School Students, Peer Influence
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Blume, Grant; Meza, Elizabeth Apple – Community College Research Initiatives, 2019
Community college is a gateway to postsecondary education for millions of college students in the United States yet only 13% of those intending to earn a bachelor's degree do so within six years of enrolling (Shapiro et al., 2017). The process of transferring from one postsecondary institution to another is fraught with structural, financial, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Two Year College Students, Institutional Cooperation
Kaur, Randeep – Texas Education Research Center, 2017
Undocumented immigrants constitute about 3.5% of the current US population and Texas ranks second, after California, in the number of unauthorized immigrant population. Annually, about 65,000 undocumented children graduate from American high schools. Using the variation provided by the in-state resident tuition policy of Texas, the author…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Student Costs, Costs, Undocumented Immigrants
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Yu, Hongwei – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2017
Student retention has garnered increased attentions in higher education. Drawing from various theoretical perspectives, researchers have developed multiple theoretical models to explain or predict student retention. Most models, however, were intended for traditional aged, full-time students at 4-year colleges or universities. The rapid growth of…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence
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Barbera, Salvatore A.; Berkshire, Steven David; Boronat, Consuelo B.; Kennedy, Michael H. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2020
A plethora of research spanning several decades has attempted to understand predictors of retention and graduation in undergraduate bachelor's degree programs. The topic is no less important today, as larger and larger swaths of the American population attend college each year. Studies have demonstrated that key demographic variables, indicators…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence, Bachelors Degrees, Readiness
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Perez-Felkner, Lara; Thomas, Kirby; Hopkins, Jordan; Nix, Samantha – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Given the explosion of theoretical and empirical interest in the STEM gender gap in recent years, almost exclusively focused on four-year colleges, this paper primarily investigates the following question: How does the nature of the gender gap differ among two- and four-year college students, if at all? This study seeks to answer the following…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, STEM Education, Gender Differences, Racial Differences
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Clotfelter, Charles T.; Ladd, Helen F.; Muschkin, Clara; Vigdor, Jacob L. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
This article contributes to the empirical literature on remediation in community colleges by using policy variation across North Carolina's community colleges to examine how remediation affects various outcomes for traditional-age college students. We find that being required to take a remedial course (as we define it in this article) either in…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges, Program Effectiveness
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Crisp, Gloria; Delgado, Chryssa – Community College Review, 2014
Developmental education has been cited as one of the most difficult issues facing community colleges. Despite the controversy and changes to educational policy regarding developmental education, there is a notable dearth of rigorous research measuring the causal effect of remediation on community college student outcomes. The present study uses…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, Academic Persistence
Rodriguez, Olga – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Due in large part to their open access and affordability, community colleges have long played a central role in providing students with immigrant backgrounds who are English language learners (ELLs) with access to postsecondary education. Researchers have noted that English as a second language (ESL) courses have been the primary form of support…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), Community Colleges, Mixed Methods Research
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