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Jackson, Jacob – Public Policy Institute of California, 2020
These technical appendixes accompany the study, "Getting to Graduation on Time at California State University." The study uses a combination of campus-wide and student-level data from the California State University (CSU) system to examine the relationship between course-taking and on-time graduation. The first appendix provides…
Descriptors: Time to Degree, Academic Persistence, College Credits, Courses
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Langston, Randall; Wyant, Robert; Scheid, Jamie – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2016
Both an art and a science, enrollment projections have become a major component to effective college and university fiscal planning. With stagnant or declining state budget support for public higher education along with an increasing emphasis on revenue generation, never before has predicting the size of an entering class become more imperative.…
Descriptors: Enrollment Management, Strategic Planning, Statistical Data, Predictor Variables
Wiggins, Afi Y. – Online Submission, 2015
Sixty-three percent of AISD's Class of 2013 graduates enrolled in a postsecondary institution the year after high school, and 74% of Class of 2012 graduates persisted in college for a second year. A supplemental report (published separately) provides technical documentation. [For the technical documentation report, see ED626499.]
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, College Attendance, High School Graduates, Academic Persistence
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Pike, Gary R. – About Campus, 2008
Learning communities can trace their origins to the 1920s and the experimental College at the University of Wisconsin, but the widespread use of learning communities to improve undergraduate education is a relatively new phenomenon. The early learning communities of the late 1980s and early 1990s consisted of groups of new freshmen co-enrolled in…
Descriptors: Experimental Colleges, College Freshmen, Predictor Variables, Evaluation Criteria
Mota, Marisol – Online Submission, 2008
This study examines Linguistic Competence in English Language (LCE) as a general indicator of Communicative Competence. A test and a questionnaire were administered to 1838 undergraduate freshmen from five major institutes of higher education in Aguascalientes, Mexico. The results of the test are analysed in their association with main features of…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, English (Second Language), College Freshmen, Higher Education
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Gump, Steven E. – Journal of General Education, 2007
General education classrooms provide a common milieu for understanding and appropriating results of classroom research projects, which are typically viewed as having little application outside their original contexts. Here, results of an investigation into the "sophomore slump," where grades and class attendance rates typically suffer, are…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Investigations, General Education, Classroom Research
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Longman, Debbie Guice; Atkinson, Rhonda Holt – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1990
Describes a study of the cultural literacy of developmental, nondevelopmental, and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) college students and their high school preparation to determine whether high school was a significant factor in accumulation of cultural literacy. Offers suggestions for improving the cultural literacy of developmental students.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Preparation, Cultural Awareness, Educational Background
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Zimmerman, Allen – Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2000
Describes a journal-based orientation course at a small, public two-year technical college. Reports on a study of 160 students which found that the orientation-course grade was a better predictor of student success (as measured by timely graduation and grade point average) than high school rank and far superior to the American College Testing…
Descriptors: Class Rank, College Freshmen, Grade Point Average, Grade Prediction
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Oswald, Frederick L.; Schmitt, Neal; Kim, Brian H.; Ramsay, Lauren J.; Gillespie, Michael A. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2004
This article describes the development and validation of a biographical data (biodata) measure and situational judgment inventory (SJI) as useful predictors of broadly defined college student performance outcomes. These measures provided incremental validity when considered in combination with standardized college-entrance tests (i.e., SAT/ACT)…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Student Development
Morgan, Beverly D. – 1992
The relationship between scores on the American College Test (ACT) and grade point averages of first-time college freshmen after the first year of study was investigated by correlating ACT composite scores and grade point averages (GPAs). ACT scores and GPAs were obtained for 100 first-time freshmen at an urban state university in Illinois. There…
Descriptors: Class Rank, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen
Maryland State Higher Education Commission, Annapolis. – 1996
This report examines the relationship between Maryland students' academic performance and experiences in high school and how well they did in their initial year in college. It includes students who graduated from a Maryland high school in the 1993-94 school year and who enrolled at a Maryland college or university during the 1994-95 academic year.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations