ERIC Number: ED674519
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jun
Pages: 68
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Available Date: 0000-00-00
The Link between Dual Enrollment Partnership Characteristics and Outcomes: Findings from Texas. CCRC Working Paper No. 138
Kimberly Pack-Cosme; Wonsun Ryu; Lauren Schudde
Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
Dual enrollment (DE) offers students the opportunity to earn college credits while in high school. Although variation in partnership contexts likely contributes to differences in DE access, structures, and outcomes, the extent of variation across DE partnerships is unclear. To build an understanding of variation in key DE structures and outcomes across partnerships, we examine DE partnerships between high schools and community colleges in Texas, where DE students account for one fifth of all community college enrollees. We use statewide administrative data from Texas to identify all DE course enrollments across three cohorts of high school students, constructing partnership-level measures and outcomes for each unique high school-college pairing. Through descriptive and regression analyses, we describe DE partnerships and estimate which DE structures and contexts predict aggregate DE course completion, college enrollment, and degree attainment. This study illuminates considerable variation in DE course structures and student composition across partnerships. Our regression results indicate that DE course structures (e.g., course subject, location, instructor type) are less practically meaningful in predicting a partnership's aggregate outcomes compared with contextual measures such as geographic locale (i.e., rural or urban) or use of an early college high school (ECHS) model. Future research should examine how to meet the needs of DE students within their geographic contexts and whether (and which) practices from ECHS models are effective for students taking DE courses outside of the ECHS model.
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High Schools, Community Colleges, Partnerships in Education, College Enrollment, Educational Attainment, Prediction, Student Characteristics, Socioeconomic Status, High School Students, Success, Geographic Location
Community College Research Center. Available from: CCRC Publications. Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 West 120th Street Box 174, New York, NY 10027. Tel: 212-678-3091; Fax: 212-678-3699; e-mail: ccrc@columbia.edu; Web site: http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
Sponsor: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (DHHS/NIH)
Authoring Institution: Columbia University, Community College Research Center (CCRC)
Identifiers - Location: Texas
Grant or Contract Numbers: P2CHD042849
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