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Zeyu Xu; Ben Backes; Dan Goldhaber – Community College Review, 2023
Objective: In 2009, the Kentucky General Assembly found unacceptable and costly the ongoing high numbers of high school students requiring remediation once they enter higher education. The state passed legislation to better align secondary and college education, establishing a diagnostic cycle that would become its Targeted Interventions (TI)…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Bound Students, College Readiness, College Students
Erin W. Cousins – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Many students, including collegiate student-athletes, face academic challenges throughout their higher education experience, struggling to learn and perform effectively. One reason for this difficulty may be that students are not engaging in adequate self-regulated learning (SRL). Although research has demonstrated the effectiveness of SRL…
Descriptors: Intervention, Student Athletes, College Students, College Athletics
Raymond Francis Albin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The transition period of a student from middle school to high school is of critical importance because students who can successfully navigate the first-year physical, academic, and social pressures of high school have the greatest chances for successfully completing high school in four years (Allensworth & Easton, 2005). Students who cannot…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Barriers, Intervention, Dropout Prevention
Brigette S. Gibson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The current study examined the impact of a pre-matriculation social belonging intervention on the academic achievement of incoming first-time, full-time college students at a four-year public university in the Midwestern United States utilizing a secondary analysis of existing data. The theoretical framework was viewed through the lens of…
Descriptors: Full Time Students, Group Membership, Interpersonal Relationship, Intervention
Andrew W. Alt – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study explored the influence of randomized belonging interventions on academic outcomes among first-generation college students at a mid-sized, Midwest, four-year public institution. Astin's Input-Environment-Outcome (I-E-O) model served as the conceptual framework for investigating the impact of an environmental sense of belonging…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Academic Achievement, Transitional Programs, Intervention
Baldwin, Amy; Bunting, Bryce; Daugherty, Doug; Lewis, Latoya; Steenbergh, Tim – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2020
In recent years, growth mindset, resilience, and belonging have become popular topics for research and practice among college educators. The authors of this new volume deepen the conversation around these noncognitive factors that significantly impact student success. Along with offering support for the development of learning mindsets, this book…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Resilience (Psychology), Student College Relationship, Academic Achievement
Kirk J. Hutchinson – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study examined one school district's attempt to accelerate the academic learning of a population of incoming kindergarten students through the students' participation in a pilot summer incoming-kindergarten intervention program known as Summer Learning Academies (SLA). The analyses examined the end-of-year (EOY) reading and mathematics…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Brady, Shannon T.; Hard, Bridgette Martin; Gross, James J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
The idea that test anxiety hurts performance is deeply ingrained in American culture and schools. However, researchers have found that it is actually worry about performance and anxiety--not bodily feelings of anxiety (emotionality)--that impairs performance. Drawing on this insight, anxiety reappraisal interventions encourage the view that…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Intervention
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Hillier, Ashleigh; Goldstein, Jody; Tornatore, Lauren; Byrne, Emily; Johnson, Hannah M. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2019
As individuals with disabilities attend postsecondary education in greater numbers, mentoring programs are being implemented more frequently. The research objective of our exploratory study was to examine outcomes for students with disabilities participating in a Student to Student Mentoring Program using a mixed methods approach. Mentors followed…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Mentors, Program Effectiveness, Students with Disabilities
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Kitchen, Joseph Allen; Cole, Darnell; Rivera, Gwendelyn; Hallett, Ronald – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2021
This study proposes an empirically grounded, non-deficit oriented, college transition program proactive advising model, called "mid-semester grade checks," to promote academic self-efficacy among first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented minoritized students. The grade checks model was developed based on data comprised of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Transitional Programs, Academic Advising, Intervention
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Schmidt, Rebecca A.; Park, C. J. – Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2021
Student success in postsecondary education depends on academic preparation and on having the nonacademic knowledge, skills, and behaviors to successfully navigate the demands of postsecondary study. While nonacademic competencies are important for all students, rural and high-poverty populations face unique nonacademic challenges, such as access…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Enrollment, Intervention, Rural Population
Dragoo, Kyrie E.; James, Nathan; Duff, Johnathan H.; Reese, Shawn; Hegji, Alexandra – Congressional Research Service, 2022
In the United States, more than 70 million students are enrolled in public elementary and secondary (K-12) schools or degree-granting postsecondary institutions. School and campus safety and security for these students encompasses many issues, including violence prevention and response, school climate, and the physical and mental health of the…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Security, Federal Aid, Grants
Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2020
Defining and measuring success are not merely process steps, but critical conversations that shape how education is understood and delivered. They influence how individuals within and outside the system perceive the goals of education. They shape the incentives for stakeholders seeking to improve educational outcomes. Methods of measuring success…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Measurement, Measurement Objectives
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2020
"Success Boston Coaching" is a coaching intervention for students who are traditionally underrepresented in college to help them transition from high school to college and progress in college. Students are paired with a dedicated coach starting as early as the spring of their senior year of high school and receive coaching through their…
Descriptors: Intervention, Coaching (Performance), At Risk Students, Transitional Programs
Smith-Groves, Michelle S. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Within the last decade, several school and government-level administrations have been attempting to circumvent the incidence of poor academic achievement in relation to school transition. Military children already challenged by frequent moves and parental absences may also be challenged with the impact on their academic achievement. Due to a lack…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Military Personnel, Qualitative Research, Transitional Programs
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