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Day, Angelique; Dworsky, Amy; Feng, Wenning – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2013
Prior research has document significant disparities in post-secondary educational attainment between young adults who had been in foster care and their peers in the general population. This study uses survival analysis to compare the four-year college graduation rate of students who had been in foster care to the graduation rate of first…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Student Characteristics, Background, Postsecondary Education
Attewell, Paul; Jang, Sou Hyun – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2013
The summer school sessions that colleges offer their undergraduates are sometimes considered supplementary activities and are rarely perceived as central to a college's mission or effectiveness. However, analyses of college transcript data that tracked a nationally-representative sample of undergraduates for several years and through multiple…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Undergraduate Students, Program Effectiveness, Academic Persistence
Wilson, Dawn; Allen, David – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2011
Are students setting themselves up for failure by taking online courses? Should students be restricted from taking online courses if they have not reached a certain GPA? Should students who fail or withdraw from an online course be required to take to traditional courses for at least one semester? At one Historically Black College or University…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Conventional Instruction, Success, Grade Point Average