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Steven Silber – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many students arrive at colleges and universities underprepared for college-level mathematics courses. In the United States, these students are required to complete developmental mathematics courses before completing the required mathematics courses for their degrees. Students who are required to take developmental mathematics courses frequently…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Undergraduate Students
Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education, 2023
The "2023 Nebraska Higher Education Progress Report" is the latest edition of the annual progress report designed to provide the Nebraska Legislature with comparative statistics to monitor and evaluate progress toward achieving three key priorities for Nebraska's postsecondary education system. They are: (1) Increase the number of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Government, Academic Persistence, Academic Degrees
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Sanabria, Tanya; Penner, Andrew; Domina, Thurston – Research in Higher Education, 2020
Colleges offer remedial coursework to help students enrolling in post-secondary education who are not adequately prepared to succeed in college-level courses. Despite the prevalence of remediation, previous research presents contradictory findings regarding its short- and long-term effects. This paper uses a doubly robust inverse probability…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Remedial Instruction, Two Year College Students, College Preparation
Wyatt, Jeffrey N.; Patterson, Brian F.; Di Giacomo, F. Tony – College Board, 2015
Educators are increasingly focused on ensuring that students experience a rigorous curriculum in high school and graduate college and career ready. One way of introducing rigorous course work is to have students take college-level work, often in the form of either an AP® course and exam or a dual enrollment course. This study compared the outcomes…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Outcomes of Education, Advanced Placement Programs, High School Students
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Xu, Min; de Silva, Chandra R.; Neufeldt, Ellen; Dane, Jane H. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2013
There is a widespread assumption that study abroad develops skills that are marketable in an increasingly global market. Students at many institutions, including Old Dominion University (ODU), have undertaken study abroad mostly after their sophomore year, well after they have chosen a major. The profile of U.S. students studying abroad compiled…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Profiles, Student Attitudes, Educational Benefits
Radford, Alexandria Walton; Pearson, Juliana; Ho, Phoebe; Chambers, Eric; Ferlazzo, Damon – MPR Associates, Inc., 2012
Recently the state of Missouri, through the Missouri Department of Higher Education, has started to work toward the goal of having 60 percent of state residents hold some type of postsecondary credential. This goal aligns with similar initiatives in other states as well as President Obama's objective for the nation. In order to reach this…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Academic Persistence, Remedial Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs
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Katsikas, Elias; Panagiotidis, Theodore – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
This study employs administrative and survey data to assess the relationship between students' socioeconomic background and educational outcomes, using regression and quantile regression methods. We take into account the existing institutional framework which allows differentiation in the duration of studies among students. We examine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grades (Scholastic), Outcomes of Education, Socioeconomic Background
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Wei, Christina Chang; Horn, Laura – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
In 2006-07, the federal government awarded over $13 billion in Pell Grants to more than 5 million undergraduate students (U.S. Department of Education 2007). The goal of the Pell Grant program is to help students with financial need enroll in and graduate from college by providing them with a basic foundation of financial aid, to which they may…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Financial Needs, College Graduates, Statistical Analysis
Indiana State Commission for Higher Education, Indianapolis. – 1997
The purpose of this working paper is to understand the extent to which competing methodologies for measuring degree completion affect the comparability of information presented, and to better position the Indiana State Commission for Higher Education to make comparisons with national data. This working paper compares seven national studies of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Comparative Analysis, Degrees (Academic)
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Booth, Alison L.; Satchell, Stephen E. – Higher Education Review, 1996
Progress of British students embarking on doctoral degrees in the 1980s was analyzed for factors in completion of doctoral degrees. Results show funding had insignificant positive impact on completion rate, completion rate was highest in the sciences, ability (measured by first degree type) affected doctoral completion, and part-time status (or…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Attainment
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Blau, Judith R.; Presler-Marshall, Elisabeth – Thought & Action, 1996
Using data on degree completion among black and white community college students, a study investigated how rates in different postsecondary programs vary for blacks and whites, changes over the course of the 1980s, and institutional characteristics encouraging program completion for the two groups. The most striking result was a decline in…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Environment, College Students, Community Colleges
Spinetta, Katrin; Phillips, Jo Ann – 1991
The Peralta Community College District (PCCD) is comprised of four comprehensive, public, two-year colleges serving a diverse student population of 28,000. In response to state-mandated matriculation research requirements, and to an invitation to participate in a national study of student outcomes in urban community colleges, PCCD conducted a…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Graduates, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Dillon, Paul H. – 1990
In 1990, a study was conducted of 1,912 students receiving associate in arts or associate in science degrees the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) in spring 1989 to determine the length of time taken to graduate. Data for the study were gathered from spring 1989 graduates' district transcript records which contained enrollment dates…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns, College Attendance
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2006
The purpose of this state report card is to provide the general public and policymakers with information they can use to assess and improve postsecondary education in each state. "Measuring Up 2006" is the fourth in a series of biennial report cards. The report card grades states in six overall performance categories: (1) Preparation:…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Comparative Analysis, Performance Factors
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2006
The purpose of this state report card is to provide the general public and policymakers with information they can use to assess and improve postsecondary education in each state. "Measuring Up 2006" is the fourth in a series of biennial report cards. The report card grades states in six overall performance categories: (1) Preparation:…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Comparative Analysis, Performance Factors
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