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Persistence of Community College Students: The Influence of Student Intent and Academic and Social Integration.
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Bers, Trudy H.; Smith, Kerry E. – Research in Higher Education, 1991
A study examined the extent to which social and academic integration and student educational objectives were predictive of persistence for 1,142 community college students. Student educational objectives discriminated most powerfully between persisters and nonpersisters. Academic and social integration and employment status were also significant…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Higher Education, Institutional Research
Assessing Developmental Education Policies.
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Weissman, Julie; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1997
Reviews results of a study assessing the effectiveness of developmental studies program policy at a community college. Issues addressed include required remediation of skill-deficient students, enrollment in college-level courses by skill-deficient students, and differing policies for skill-deficient students depending on extent of deficiency.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Administrative Policy, Community Colleges
Faculty at Work: Focus on Teaching.
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Blackburn, Robert T.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1991
A study compared selected personal and environmental motivational variables in college faculty with allocation of work effort to teaching. Faculty represented the disciplines of English, chemistry, and psychology and various institution types. Self-valuation and perception of the environment motivators significantly accounted for the explained…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Psychology, College Faculty, College Instruction
A Comparison of Community College Responders and Nonresponders to the VEDS Student Follow-Up Survey.
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Carifio, James; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1991
A survey of respondents and nonrespondents to the Vocational Education Data System's follow-up survey of Massachusetts community college graduates was designed to measure response bias. The survey investigated employment patterns, wages, and degree of job relatedness. Results suggest original data was biased, if at all, toward underestimation, not…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Patterns, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys
Faculty at Work: Focus on Research, Scholarship, and Service.
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Blackburn, Robert T.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1991
A study compared selected personal and environmental motivational variables in college faculty with allocation of work effort to research, scholarship, and service. Faculty were from eight liberal arts and sciences departments in a range of institution types. For all institutional types, self-valuation motivators significantly accounted for the…
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, Cognitive Psychology, College Faculty