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Direct linkHuerta, Jeffery J.; Watt, Karen M.; Butcher, Jennifer T. – American Secondary Education, 2013
This study examines the impact that Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) in middle school has on middle school course rigor and students' high school performance and college readiness. The study compares students who took AVID in middle school and high school with students who only took AVID in high school. The changes in middle school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Readiness, College Preparation, Program Effectiveness
Holmquist, Carol L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Despite the need, persistence in remediation hovers at 50% (NCES, 2002) while nearly one third of community college enrollees arrive under-prepared (Hess, 2009). Persistence is correlated with academic preparation (Nash & Kallenbach, 2009), and barriers to persistence include a number of demographic barriers (Education, 2006; Labaree, 2006).…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Adult Students, Adult Education, Academic Persistence
Skeldon, Michael A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
With trends toward high stakes testing moving inexorably forward, project-based components of Rhode Island's Performance Based Graduation system have been largely overlooked. Existing studies focus primarily on implementation of senior projects (Davidson, 2009; Lorenz, 1999; Mayer, 1999; Nicolini, 1999; Shaunessy, 2004; Singer & Hubbard,…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Student Projects, Curriculum, Judges
Fabbi, Jennifer L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Information literacy--the ability "to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information" (American Library Association [ALA], 1989, para. 3)--has been widely and increasingly cited as an essential competency for college success, for the workplace, and for life…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Secondary Education, Information Literacy, College Freshmen
Download full textDuncan, Worokya – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2012
Relationships between United States History curriculum design, self-efficacy, and test achievement of eighth-grade students and parents in the KIPP:STAR College Preparatory Charter School were examined in this study. An online questionnaire developed for the study, the Parental Questionnaire for United States History Curriculum, was pilot tested,…
Descriptors: United States History, African American History, History Instruction, Curriculum Design
Tolliver, Armando – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore salient nonacademic factors related to social, economic, and cultural aspects together with traditional academic factors that influenced college retention. The study design employed a mixed-methods sequential explanatory method design, collecting quantitative data for correlation and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, School Holding Power, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Influences
