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Direct linkMay, Joseph E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
One of the most problematic issues facing community colleges is developmental education. In the last decade, more research has been conducted examining developmental education. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of developmental math in a rural community college setting. Is developmental math an effective intervention?…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics, College Freshmen
Dwyer, Lori Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Student attrition has been a significant challenge facing higher education for decades and is particularly pronounced within community colleges. Specifically, first-time postsecondary students only experienced a 59.3 percent retention rate between Fall 2013 and Fall 2014; at two-year colleges, less than half (46.9 percent) of students were…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Early Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Walker, Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The learning community as a classroom structure and as a teaching technique started in the early 1900s, experienced a slow but consistent growth, and in 2010 was in use in over 500 colleges (Smith, 1991). However, as in all of higher education, the methods being used must demonstrate effectiveness. An important question is how to demonstrate…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Community Colleges, Communities of Practice, College Freshmen
Frye, Bobbie Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Traditionally, modeling student retention has been done by deriving student success predictors and measuring the likelihood of success based on several background factors such as age, race, gender, and other pre-college variables, also known as the input-output model. Increasingly, however, researchers have used mediating factors of the student…
Descriptors: Scores, Two Year College Students, Academic Persistence, Developmental Studies Programs
Samuels, Christine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this action research study was to determine how peer-assisted learning (PAL) could be implemented to support improved academic achievement, persistence, and attitudes toward math for community college students in an intermediate developmental algebra course. Students in two sections of an intermediate algebra course, with an…
Descriptors: Action Research, Peer Teaching, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence
Edwards, James E., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This applied dissertation described the evaluation of a program designed to provide students with the necessary academic and social skills needed to matriculate and graduate from the university. The problem was that there was no evidence of a formalized program evaluation to determine if the Academic Empowerment Center (AEC) was effective in…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Program Evaluation, Grade Point Average
