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Timothy S. Faith; Glenda Breaux – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2023
Open educational resources (OERs) are an alternative textbook to publisher materials used by colleges and universities. While OERs likely reduce the cost of college for students, research is mixed on the impact of these textbooks on student success in college. The present study utilizes preference score matching (PSM) methodology to compare OER…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Community Colleges, Outcomes of Education, Publishing Industry
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Goddard, Kathryn; Cameron, Dale; Favero, Carlita; King, Jennifer; Price, Simara – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2022
"January Undergraduate Move Ahead Program" (JUMP) uses winter break as an opportunity to prepare small groups of scholarship students with high financial need for the second semester of their first-year biology curriculum and a career in life science. A winter intersession program has challenges, but more importantly, benefits that…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Students, Vacation Programs
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Donahue, Tara; Rentz, Bradley; Santos, Michelle; Aguon, Alicia C.; Arens, Sheila A. – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2021
Policymakers and educators on Guåhan (Guam) are concerned about the persistent shortage of qualified K-12 teachers. Staff at the Unibetsedåt Guåhan (University of Guam, UOG) School of Education, the only local university that offers a teacher training and certification program, believe that more students are interested in becoming teachers but…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, College Admission, Admission Criteria
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Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2021
This Study Snapshot highlights key findings from a study that examined which student demographic and academic preparation characteristics predict passing the Praxis® Core test and each of its subtests at the Unibetsedåt Guåhan (University of Guam, UOG) School of Education. This information is needed to increase admissions to the School of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, College Admission, Admission Criteria
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Donahue, T.; Rentz, B.; Santos, M.; Aguon, A. C.; Arens, S. A. – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2021
Policymakers and educators on Guåhan (Guam) are concerned about the persistent shortage of qualified K-12 teachers. Staff at the Unibetsedåt Guåhan (University of Guam, UOG) School of Education, the only local university that offers a teacher training and certification program, believe that more students are interested in becoming teachers but…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, College Admission, Admission Criteria
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Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2021
The "Using High School and College Data to Predict Teacher Candidates' Performance on the Praxis at Unibetsedåt Guåhan (University of Guam)" study examined which student demographic and academic preparation characteristics predict passing the Praxis® Core test and each of its subtests at the Unibetsedåt Guåhan (University of Guam, UOG)…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, College Admission, Admission Criteria
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Kinsley, Peter Miles; Goldrick-Rab, Sara – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Postsecondary leaders and policy-makers have turned to performance-based aid programs as one way reduce time to degree completion and improve completion rates among low income students. By tying aid eligibility to minimum academic performance standards in college, it is thought that greater academic commitment can be promoted. Underlying these…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Incentives, Performance Based Assessment, Federal Aid
Schudde, Lauren; Scott-Clayton, Judith – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2014
The Federal Pell Grant Program is the nation's largest need-based grant program. While students' initial eligibility for the Pell is based on financial need, renewal of the award is contingent on their making satisfactory academic progress (SAP)--meeting minimum academic standards similar to those proposed in models of performance-based…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Programs, Student Financial Aid, Academic Achievement
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1982
The "Pell Grants" machine-readable data file (MRDF) is a subfile of the "High School and Beyond (HS&B) Class of 1980 Survey," which was administered in 1980 to a national sample of over 30,000 sophomores and 28,000 seniors from 1,015 schools throughout the United States. The "Pell Grants" file contains data from…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Programs, College Students, Employment Level