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London, Rebecca A.; Glass, Ronald David; Chang, Ethan; Sabati, Sheeva; Nojan, Saugher – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2022
This study examines the ethics and politics of knowledge across 15 distinctive community-engaged research projects. We focus our analysis on interviews with community partners and consider their perceptions of research, academic research partners, motivations for partnering, and the benefits and challenges of community-engaged research. We…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Research, Community Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Sonya Christian – California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2025
During the 2018-2019 legislative and budget cycle, the California State Legislature and Administration established the Student Equity and Achievement (SEA) Program, which was created to consolidate funding allocated for three distinct, but interconnected, categorical programs: (1) the Basic Skills Initiative; (2) the Student Equity Program and (3)…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Academic Achievement, Financial Support, Educational Finance
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Sioukas, Anastasios – Industry and Higher Education, 2023
Constructivism holds that learners construct knowledge when they make sense of the world. It provides the basis for the movement from teacher-centered towards student-centered learning in entrepreneurship, which is accelerating. Yet, research into using constructivism in the entrepreneurship classroom of community colleges in the USA is seriously…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Student Centered Learning, Entrepreneurship, Community Colleges
Yang, Edith; Halpin, Peter; Handy, Daniel – MDRC, 2022
Postsecondary institutions, and particularly community colleges, are positioned well to train more and more of the nation's entry- and middle-skill workers. The New World of Work (NWoW), a program that promoted teaching and learning soft skills, was designed in 2012 and operated briefly in over 75 community colleges in California. The program…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Psychometrics, Evaluation, Community Colleges
Alex Jacobson; Lorna Porter; Lucy Hadley; Lupita Alcalá; Jason Willis – WestEd, 2025
In 2024, WestEd partnered with Sobrato Philanthropies to conduct a strategic and economic analysis of English Learner programs in the state of California. The study sought to define the scale of economic challenges and explore underlying conditions impacting the costs of implementing English Learner programs in California in alignment with best…
Descriptors: English Learners, Second Language Programs, Program Evaluation, Best Practices
Abraham, Angeles – ProQuest LLC, 2023
California community colleges have a completion crisis problem, with over 70% of students failing to graduate. This study was conducted to identify effective support services in the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) program, which serves marginalized community college students. This EOPS program study surveyed almost 2,000 EOPS…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Student Personnel Services, Minority Group Students
Renee Rana Kazemipour Paquier – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study responds to a national conversation about the role that Career Technical Education (CTE) might play in meeting workforce demand for soft skills. It is challenging for CTE programs to offer soft skills for several reasons. Both educators and employers tend to associate CTE with hard skills, or technical skills and therefore the programs…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Soft Skills, Community Colleges, Public Colleges
Umaña, Paula; Olaniyan, Motunrayo; Magnelia, Sarah; Coca, Vanessa – Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, 2022
Before the pandemic, millions of college students eligible for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) did not access the benefit. This gap between eligibility for SNAP benefits and the use of those benefits is often a result of confusion around federal eligibility requirements. Even when eligibility guidelines were temporarily…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Welfare Services, Federal Programs
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Escobar, Claudia; Friedmann, Elizabeth; Tovar, Silvia – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
Promise programs have grown in popularity as a way to provide college tuition/fees and other student supports in the hopes of increasing college access and success. This chapter presents results from a comprehensive mixed-methods evaluation of the Lake Tahoe Community College Promise Program. Using rich administrative data and interviews with…
Descriptors: Community Programs, College Programs, Program Evaluation, Student Satisfaction
Hensel, Nancy H. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2021
This book highlights the exciting work of two-year colleges to prepare students for their future careers through engagement in undergraduate research. It emerged from work in five community college systems thanks to two National Science Foundation grants the Council for Undergraduate Research received to support community colleges' efforts to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Student Research, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Toni Frazer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Purpose. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to focus on college counselors' perspectives and insights when transferring credits from dual enrollment, advanced placement, and International Baccalaureate programs and the impact on at-promise groups in California. Theoretical Framework. The CIPPO model, which consists of…
Descriptors: Admissions Officers, Dual Enrollment, Advanced Placement Programs, Transfer of Training
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Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2023
The Region 15 Comprehensive Center (R15CC) is federally funded to provide high-impact, customized, and responsive capacity-building technical assistance to state educational agencies (SEAs) in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah. In 2022, R15CC established a regional Family and Community Engagement (FACE) Collaborative for SEA leaders in…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Community Involvement, Capacity Building, State Departments of Education
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Lee, Ryan C.; Soto, Daniel W.; Deva, Sohini; Macedo, Marisol; Shanker, Kush; Rodriguez, Anna; Alhajri, Danyah; Unger, Jennifer B. – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: School-based COVID-19 testing is a potential strategy to limit COVID-19 transmission among youth in congregate settings such as schools, sports programs, and summer camps. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of frequent rapid antigen testing at a supervised distance-learning setting for elementary…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, COVID-19, Pandemics, Diagnostic Tests
Carlson, Erika R. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Higher education institutions across the country have examined equity in education outcomes through disaggregating student demographic data. However, it is not as common for academic institutions to also examine student learning outcomes for inequities in student learning. The current study explores what the greatest contributors are for the lack…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Outcomes of Education, Community Colleges, College Faculty
Hollins, Etta; Warner, Connor K. – National Academy of Education, 2021
This paper focuses on the evaluation of the clinical component of preservice teacher preparation. In this paper, clinical experience in teacher preparation refers to the "application of academic knowledge to practice" in classrooms, schools, and communities where candidates learn to "contextualize" the curriculum, learning…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Improvement, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education
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