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Download full textFink, John; Myers, Taylor; Sparks, Daniel; Jaggars, Shanna – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2021
Nearly two decades into the "completion agenda" in higher education, many community colleges have adopted collegewide reforms designed to improve stubbornly flat rates of student success and address persistent equity gaps. The longer-term effects of such collegewide reforms may take years to observe. In the meantime, college leaders need…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Equal Education
Direct linkCresswell, Ronald Eliot – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of the quantitative explanatory study was to investigate the relationship between student mathematics course prerequisite completion and the final grades attained in the required community college mathematics classes. A quantitative method was appropriate because it explored the relationship between the response variable, the final…
Descriptors: Prerequisites, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Correlation
PDF pending restorationIsonio, Steven – 1991
In 1991, a study was conducted at Golden West College (California) to determine whether there was a significant relationship between eligibility for English 100, a university-transferable writing course, and success in Introductory Psychology. The sample consisted of students appearing on first-day rosters of Introductory Psychology classes in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Correlation
Boughan, Karl – 1996
A study was conducted at Prince George's Community College, in Maryland, to investigate the relatively low pass rates associated with General Chemistry 1 (CHM101), a lower-level science course that satisfies a general education requirement and serves as a prerequisite for Chemistry and Biology students. To identify correlates of student success,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Chemistry, Community Colleges
Sollimo, Vincent J. – 1988
A study was conducted at Burlington County College to investigate the relationship between the academic characteristics and course completion of students enrolled in General College Chemistry (CHE 105) in fall 1985. The study involved an examination of students' academic records and a survey of students who did not successfully pass the course. Of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Chemistry, Community Colleges
Isonio, Steven; Cooperman, Carol – 1992
In 1992, a study was conducted at Golden West College (GWC) in California to determine whether an English prerequisite should be required for a speech communication course and, if so, what level of English course was necessary. Fourteen sections of Speech Communication 100 were randomly chosen from the spring, summer, and fall semesters during the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chi Square, College English, Community Colleges
