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Narciso, Francisco Expression, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Students with disabilities in U.S. community colleges continue to disproportionately experience lower degree attainment compared to students without disabilities. Furthermore, students with disabilities are twice as likely to choose community colleges for postsecondary education compared to four-year colleges. Students with disabilities in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Community College Students, Educational Attainment, Graduation Rate
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Jessica R. Steinbrenner; Leann DaWalt; Kara A. Hume; Bonnie Kraemer; Samuel L. Odom; Laura J. Hall; Chris Brum; Kate Szidon; Dan Bolt – Journal of Special Education, 2025
Understanding the experiences of autistic high school students, including participation in social and vocational activities, has important implications for high school programming and links to postsecondary outcomes. The primary aims of this study are to describe these experiences and examine relationships with two aspects of educational…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, High School Students, Student Experience
Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2020
Early College High School (ECHS) provides students with the opportunity to earn a high school diploma and 60 college hours, which lead to an associate's degree. This report describes demographic characteristics and academic outcomes of the students served by ECHS and highlights emerging topics from the program coordinator survey.
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, At Risk Students, Low Income Students
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Lindsay, Jim; Austin, Megan; Wan, Yinmei; Pan, Jingtong; Pardo, Max; Yang, Ji Hyun – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
In Indiana and Minnesota the state education agency, state higher education agency, and the state workforce agency have collaborated to develop career and technical education courses intended to improve high school students' college and career readiness. These agencies partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest to examine whether…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High School Students, College Readiness, Career Readiness
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Lindsay, J.; Austin, M.; Wan, Y.; Pan, J.; Pardo, M.; Yang, J. H. – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
In Indiana and Minnesota the state education agency, state higher education agency, and the state workforce agency have collaborated to develop career and technical education courses intended to improve high school students' college and career readiness. These agencies partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest to examine whether…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High School Students, College Readiness, Career Readiness
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Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
In Indiana and Minnesota, career and technical education programs are intended to provide pathways to both postsecondary education and careers after high school. Each state's education agency, higher education agency, and workforce agency collaborated to develop career and technical education courses. These agencies partnered with the Regional…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High School Students, College Readiness, Career Readiness
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Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
These are the appendixes for the report "Indiana and Minnesota Students Who Focused on Career and Technical Education in High School: Who Are They, and What Are Their College and Employment Outcomes? REL 2021-090." This study examined the college and employment outcomes of Indiana and Minnesota students who focused on career and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High School Students, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Song, Mengli; Zeiser, Kristina L. – American Institutes for Research, 2019
Building on a previous randomized experiment of the impact of Early Colleges (ECs) (Berger et al., 2013), this follow-up study assessed longer-term impacts of ECs on students' postsecondary outcomes 6 years after expected high school graduation. It also explored the extent to which students' high school experiences mediate EC impacts.…
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, Acceleration (Education), Dual Enrollment
Baldwin, Janet – 1995
A summary of a report on the value of the General Educational Development (GED) Tests prepared in 1994 for Congressional hearings on the reauthorization of vocational and adult education legislation includes the following highlights: (1) each year more than 750,000 adults (average age 26) take the GED tests and about 450,000 adults obtain high…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Certification, Educational Attainment, Educational Certificates
American Council on Education, Washington, DC. GED Testing Service. – 1997
This bibliography lists 549 references pertinent to the General Educational Development (GED) tests. Topics include the following: GED test outcomes, adult education, success predictions, teaching style and adult learning, college admissions practices, educational testing and measurement, economic impacts of earning a GED, job-seeking skills of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Certification, Citations (References), Educational Attainment
Baldwin, Janet – ACE Research Briefs, 1995
A study was made of the prose, document, and quantitative literacy skills of adults in the United States by their highest level of educational attainment. In addition, the study examined the literacy skills of recent General Educational Development (GED) graduates. The data used in the study came from the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Blacks
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Baldwin, Janet; Spille, Henry; Hayes, Elisabeth; Kroll, Bonnie – 1994
This packet contains five issues of "GED Profiles" that examine various aspects of the characteristics and motivation of adults who take the General Educational Development (GED) tests and the effects of completion. These topics are explored: "GED Candidates in the Workforce: Employed and Employable" (Janet Baldwin, Henry…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Aging (Individuals), Certification