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Reichlin Cruse, Lindsey; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Hare, Amanda; Contreras-Mendez, Susana – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the care crisis in the United States to the fore. Unprecedented closures of child care programs throughout 2020 placed a disproportionate burden on families, and mothers in particular. For parents enrolled in college or considering postsecondary enrollment at the time of the pandemic, the loss of child care services…
Descriptors: Child Care, College Students, Parents, Student Personnel Services
Walsh, Matthew; O'Kane, Layla; Noronha, Gilberto; Taska, Bledi – Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2019
States should graduate students from high school prepared for the challenges they will face in college and their careers. Many states are working toward this goal by improving the quality of career and technical education (CTE) programs, and have looked to industry-recognized credentials as one component of this improvement. However, there is…
Descriptors: Credentials, High School Students, Career Readiness, Vocational Education
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Myers, Carrie B.; Myers, Scott M. – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2017
Previous studies have found that freshmen who enter college with dual enrollment credits earned during high school have higher 6-year graduation rates. Yet, we do not know if institutional graduation rates benefit in the aggregate from their practice of accepting dual enrollment credits among incoming freshman cohorts. In this study, we used…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Graduates, Graduation Rate, Dual Enrollment
Oregon Department of Education, 2017
High School graduation rates are key indicators of accountability for high schools and school districts in Oregon. Beginning with the 2008-09 school year, the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) implemented the cohort method of calculating graduation rates. The cohort method identifies the year the student entered high school for the first time…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, High School Students, Cohort Analysis, Longitudinal Studies
Oregon Department of Education, 2018
High School graduation rates are key indicators of accountability for high schools and school districts in Oregon. Beginning with the 2008-09 school year, the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) implemented the cohort method of calculating graduation rates. The cohort method identifies the year the student entered high school for the first time…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Graduation Rate, High School Students, High Schools
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Coleman, Chad; Baker, Ryan S.; Stephenson, Shonte – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
Determining which students are at risk of poorer outcomes -- such as dropping out, failing classes, or decreasing standardized examination scores -- has become an important area of research and practice in both K-12 and higher education. The detectors produced from this type of predictive modeling research are increasingly used in early warning…
Descriptors: Prediction, At Risk Students, Predictor Variables, Elementary Secondary Education
Hofer, Andrea-Rosalinde – OECD Publishing, 2022
This country note presents the results of an analysis of Slovenia undertaken within the Labour Market Relevance and Outcomes of Higher Education Partnership Initiative project. The project was implemented by the OECD with the support of the European Commission with the aim of helping policy makers and higher education institutions enhance the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Outcomes of Education, Higher Education
Kilgore, Wendy; Wilson, Jacob I. – American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2017
The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) periodically undertakes research projects to keep themselves and the higher-education community in general, informed about current and emerging institutional practices. College completion rates, and how to improve them, have been in the forefront of the higher…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, College Graduates, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Kahan, Tali; Soffer, Tal; Nachmias, Rafi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
In recent years there has been a proliferation of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which provide unprecedented opportunities for lifelong learning. Registrants approach these courses with a variety of motivations for participation. Characterizing the different types of participation in MOOCs is fundamental in order to be able to better…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Behavior, Online Courses, Large Group Instruction
Blankstein, Melissa; Wolff-Eisenberg, Christine – ITHAKA S+R, 2019
The Community College Academic and Student Support Ecosystems (CCASSE) project examines how academic and student support services at not-for-profit associate-degree granting colleges are organized, funded, and staffed, and how these services can most effectively advance student success. In spring 2019, Ithaka S+R surveyed 249 chief academic and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Academic Support Services, Student Personnel Services
Blankstein, Melissa; Wolff-Eisenberg, Christine – ITHAKA S+R, 2021
For many years, higher education data collection and funding efforts have focused on student success metrics like enrollment, graduation, retention, and course completion rates. At the same time, higher education leaders have become increasingly aware--in part because of the COVID-19 pandemic--of the vast array of challenges that college students…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Needs
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Knowles, Jared E. – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2015
The state of Wisconsin has one of the highest four year graduation rates in the nation, but deep disparities among student subgroups remain. To address this the state has created the Wisconsin Dropout Early Warning System (DEWS), a predictive model of student dropout risk for students in grades six through nine. The Wisconsin DEWS is in use…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Models, Prediction, Risk
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Ramirez, Pablo C.; Ross, Lydia; Jimenez-Silva, Margarita – High School Journal, 2016
In this one-year qualitative study, the authors examined how border pedagogy is enacted by two Latino/a high school teachers in a border community in Southern California. Through classroom observations, the authors documented powerful student discussions that named complex borders (Giroux, 1992) that existed in their daily lives. We drew from…
Descriptors: Youth, Hispanic Americans, Instruction, Secondary School Teachers
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Sorensen, Lucy C. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2019
Purpose: In an era of unprecedented student measurement and emphasis on data-driven educational decision making, the full potential for using data to target resources to students has yet to be realized. This study explores the utility of machine-learning techniques with large-scale administrative data to identify student dropout risk. Research…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Dropouts, Data Collection, Data Analysis
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Ginder, Scott A.; Kelly-Reid, Janice E.; Mann, Farrah B. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) collects institution-level data from postsecondary institutions in the United States (50 states and the District of Columbia) and other U.S. jurisdictions. This report describes the universe, methods, and editing procedures used in the 2014-15 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Information Systems, Data Collection, School Statistics
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