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Serena Canaan; Stefanie Fischer; Pierre Mouganie; Geoffrey C. Schnorr – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
To boost college graduation rates, policymakers often advocate for academic supports such as coaching or mentoring. Proactive and intensive coaching interventions are effective, but are costly and difficult to scale. We evaluate a relatively lower-cost group coaching program targeted at first-year college students placed on academic probation.…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Academic Probation, Student Improvement, Program Evaluation
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2015
This annual report from Ruffalo Noel Levitz goes beyond the usual metrics of standardized test scores and high school transcripts to explore a wide range of non-cognitive attitudes and motivations that influence student retention and college completion rates. The report is based on student survey responses drawn from a sizable sample of incoming…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Student Surveys, National Surveys
Sheppard, Sheri; Gilmartin, Shannon; Chen, Helen L.; Donaldson, Krista; Lichtenstein, Gary; Eris, Ozgur; Lande, Micah; Toye, George – Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (NJ1), 2010
This report is based on data from the Academic Pathways of People Learning Engineering Survey (APPLES), administered to engineering students at 21 U.S. engineering colleges and schools in the spring of 2008. The first comprehensive set of analyses completed on the APPLES dataset presented here looks at how engineering students experience their…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Surveys, Longitudinal Studies, Student Experience
Minatoya, Lydia Y.; Sedlacek, William E. – 1979
A revised form of the Situational Attitude Scale (SAS), the SAS A-14 and SAS B-14, was used to measure the attitudes of 259 incoming white freshmen at the University of Maryland, College Park. The results indicated that the revised form elicited responses that paralleled those reported for the standard SAS. Principal components factor analyses,…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Blacks, College Freshmen, Higher Education
National Association of College and University Business Officers, Washington, DC. – 1998
This report is intended to help institutions interpret and compare student aid at their institutions with those of peer institutions. Each chart, graph, or table is accompanied by an explanation of how the reported statistic was calculated; directions on how to interpret the data for participating institutions and peer groups are also offered. The…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Fox, Roy F. – 1979
A 16-week study to investigate the effects that two methods of teaching writing had on writing apprehension and on overall quality and length of student writing involved over 100 college freshmen enrolled in English Composition classes. Except for the methods of writing instruction, both control and experimental group conditions were held…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Conventional Instruction, Experimental Teaching, Higher Education
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1982
Fall 1982 data on first-time, full-time freshmen are presented as part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. The normative data are presented separately for women and men, and for 38 groupings of institutions. The major stratifying factors are institutional race (predominantly black versus predominantly white), type (two-year college,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Background, Family Characteristics, Females
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1988
The 23rd annual report of national normative data on the characteristics of students attending American colleges and universities as first-time, full-time freshmen is presented. This project of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program of the American Council on Education and the Graduate School of Education at the University of California,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Students, Full Time Students, Higher Education
Weglarz, Shirley G. – 2001
This report presents the results of a survey at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) (Kansas), conducted to determine new students' educational objectives and what factors influenced their decisions to attend JCCC. Questions were also asked about new students' preferences for various media in order to provide information for the college's…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Participant Satisfaction, School Effectiveness
Slotnick, Sandra; And Others – 1993
The Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) is a nationwide project to gather data on incoming freshman classes at two- and four-year institutions and compare them to previous classes. This report presents findings from the fall 1992 CIRP survey for the Pennsylvania College of Technology (Penn College) and the 403 other colleges…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Background
Hyman, Randy; And Others – 1987
The history of assessment in South Dakota, the creation of the Assessment Program Team at South Dakota State University (SDSU), the rationale and purpose of assessment programs, and the initial findings from a 6-month assessment team analysis of assessment data at SDSU are highlighted. The data were collected during the first 2 years of SDSU's…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Seniors, Core Curriculum, Educational Assessment
Teilmann, Shehbal – 1980
Information on 1980 college freshmen at Baruch College, New York, is presented, and comparisons are made with data from the 1977 and 1979 freshmen classes. Additionally, characteristics of registrants and nonregistrants in 1980 are compared. The following areas were assessed with regard to student expectations and aspirations: reasons for deciding…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Attendance, College Choice, College Freshmen
New Jersey Basic Skills Council, Trenton. – 1991
This report offers details of the results of basic skills testing of the entering freshman class in New Jersey's public colleges. Levels of proficiency in verbal skills, computation, and elementary algebra are estimated from performance on the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test. For the 48,568 students tested in the fall of 1990, 24%…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Algebra, Basic Skills, College Freshmen
New Jersey Basic Skills Council, Trenton. – 1990
This report offers details of the results of basic skills testing of the entering freshman class in New Jersey's public colleges. Levels of proficiency in verbal skills, computation, and elementary algebra are estimated from performance on the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test. For the 48,791 students tested in the fall of 1989, 24%…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Algebra, Basic Skills, College Freshmen
Drew, David E.; And Others – 1981
The backgrounds, aspirations, attitudes, and activities of Jewish college freshmen who entered college in the fall of 1980 were compared with those of non-Jewish freshmen, as a replication of a 1969 study. Based on the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, extensive data (80 pages) are presented of national norms for freshmen by religious…
Descriptors: Aspiration, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Family Characteristics
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