Included in this addendum are the findings from the "Research Report: The Attitudes of Second-Year College Students" by transfer status. These data show the percentage of students within each group that agreed with each item. A total of 1,293 students from the original data set of 8,613 indicated transfer status. A demographic breakdown of the…

This report examines three focal points for understanding incoming first-year students' motivation to complete college: (1) academic motivational barriers and opportunities; (2) social motivational barriers and opportunities; and (3) financial motivational barriers and opportunities. [For "2016 National Freshman Motivation to Complete College…

Explores English 100 eligibility and English 100 success prerequisites as enhancers of Cabrillo College (California) students' ability to succeed in Speech Communication, Criminal Justice, and Fire Technology. This study also tested for disproportionate impacts of the proposed prerequisites on ethnicity, gender, and disability groups. For all…

This report addresses the success of students as they progress through reading, English, and mathematics course sequences at Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC) (Florida). Results suggest that passing prerequisite courses does not ensure that students are adequately prepared for the next course in the sequence, especially in the lower-level…

This research brief from Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) (Florida) addresses the retention rates of students enrolled in intervention courses. In July of 1998, an evaluation of the new SLS (College Survival Skills) intervention courses for college preparatory students indicated that students who successfully completed SLS had a significantly…

Over the years, larger and larger portions of high school graduates have enrolled in 4-year colleges. Although many people view college as essential to success in the labor market, the movement toward 4-year colleges also has its critics. These critics contend that the public has come to believe that almost all high school graduates should go to…

In order to deal with the problem of increasing failures and dropouts and the negative impact of large numbers of students lacking basic reading and language skills on instructional activities and materials, the Sociology Department at El Camino College made eligibility for English 1A a prerequisite for its Sociology 5 course in fall 1975. This…

A total of nineteen student characteristic variables subsumed into four categories--basic classification, demographic, cognitive, and affective--were examined in a study of 2,253 new students in fall 1974 and 2,330 new students in winter 1975 at Essex County College (ECC) New Jersey. The purpose of the study was to allow ECC to determine the areas…

Following the implementation of a matriculation plan at Rancho Santiago College (RSC), a study was conducted to examine the appropriateness of student course placement as assessed by faculty and students and to investigate faculty's perceptions of changes in students' skill level preparation over the past few years. Questionnaires were completed…

In fall 1981, a survey of students enrolled in the 27 community colleges in Washington was conducted to determine student background characteristics and educational objectives, self-ratings of abilities, types of college courses taken, types of learning activities participated in during particular courses, reasons for and for not enrolling in…

A study was conducted of the entry-level basic skills performance of all credit students enrolled at Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC) in fall 1989. The study examined demographic data and scores on the Comparative Guidance and Placement (CGP) Program Test, American College Testing (ACT) program exam, Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), Florida…

Centrally-collected data were the basis of this report on first-time freshmen applications and enrollments at The City University of New York during the 1975-1976 period, in which, due to financial problems, changes were made at CUNY regarding tuition imposition, new retention standards, and new admissions criteria. The data are presented in these…

Examined are: the major sources of federal financial aid to students in their first year of postsecondary education in the academic year 1972-73; the distribution of federal aid that students may get either in addition to or instead of federal aid. Data come from a sample of 10,189 respondents who participated in the first followup survey of the…