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Direct linkReynolds, Alfreda Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this mixed method design study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a middle college high school in providing the academic success of its alumni students by exploring their educational outcomes and perceptions of readiness and transition. The participants in the study were middle college high school staff who consented to…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Program Effectiveness, High Schools, Success
Burdge, Maryjane C. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Students with disabilities are less likely than their peers to access or succeed in postsecondary education settings. In one county, students with disabilities are taught within inclusive high school environments where deficits in reading skills, self-determination attributes, and study skills are not included in the curriculum. In place of these…
Descriptors: Mild Disabilities, High School Graduates, High Schools, Postsecondary Education
Harper, Debra J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
One program designed to prepare first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students to transition from high school to college are early college high school programs which allow qualified students to simultaneously obtain high school diplomas and associate's degrees. However, little is known about how students and faculty perceive such…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Schools, College Preparation, High Schools
Download full textStone, David C. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2010
In this paper I summarize some key findings from a three-year study of the high school-university transition for students attending a large arts and science faculty, within the context of their first university chemistry course. I then discuss these results within the broader context of research on success in higher education. Final conclusions…
Descriptors: High Schools, Transitional Programs, Chemistry, College Students
Ingels, Steven J.; Pratt, Daniel J.; Herget, Deborah R.; Burns, Laura J.; Dever, Jill A.; Ottem, Randolph; Rogers, James E.; Jin, Ying; Leinwand, Steve – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
The High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) is the fifth in a series of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) secondary longitudinal studies. The core research questions for HSLS:09 explore secondary to postsecondary transition plans and the evolution of those plans; the paths into and out of science, technology, engineering,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Longitudinal Studies, Secondary Education, School Statistics
Peer reviewedAkos, Patrick; Galassi, John P. – Professional School Counseling, 2004
Respondents to a questionnaire about the elementary-middle and middle-high school transition experience respectively were 173 sixth grade students, 83 parents, and 12 teachers, and 320 ninth grade students, 61 parents and 17 teachers. Results revealed that school transitions posed both challenges and opportunities for students. Parents and…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
University of Southern Maine, Portland. – 1987
The York County (Maine) Transition Project was designed to improve postsecondary education and employment opportunities for learning-disabled students. Three survey forms for evaluating the impact of the project comprise this document. The first survey is a six-page questionnaire targeted to practitioners. It gathers data on: (1) the project's…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities, High Schools
Texas Education Service Center Region XI, Fort Worth. – 2000
This interim report summarizes the first-year findings and activities for the Adult Outcome Component of the Texas Effectiveness Study, implemented during the 1996-97 school year. The Adult Outcome component is one of three components of the Texas Effectiveness Study that will provide information about the outcomes of special education in Texas.…
Descriptors: Adults, Daily Living Skills, Educational Planning, Followup Studies
Peer reviewedThorin, Elizabeth; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1996
Parents of young adults with developmental disabilities transitioning from mandated school services to adult services may face dilemmas when decisions present conflicting choices with equally problematic outcomes for the family. A questionnaire was administered to 103 families to determine which potential dilemmas were most significant for…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Rearing, Decision Making, Developmental Disabilities
Seidenberg, Pearl L.; Koenigsberg, Ellen – 1986
The study compared perceptions of high school and college faculty regarding the characteristics and preparatory needs of secondary learning disabled (LD) students. The analysis was based on a survey of 288 high school teachers (246 regular and 42 special education) and 82 college teachers. Separate factor analyses identified three academic factors…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, College Faculty, College Preparation
Evelo, Sheryl – 1990
This paper uses an individual case study approach to describe effects of the Learning Disabilities Transition Project, a 3-year federally funded research demonstration project which facilitated the transition of students with learning disabilities from high school to postsecondary institutions or to employment opportunities. Project goals included…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Case Studies, Decision Making, Demonstration Programs
Derewetzky, Solomon – 1993
This report presents an evaluation of Scholastic Achievement through Bilingual Education and Multicultural Activities Seminars (Project SABE MAS), an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its third year of operation at Theodore Roosevelt High School in the Bronx (New York). Project SABE MAS served 294 students, 267 of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs
Ackermann, Susan P.; Byock, Gayle J. – 1989
The Freshman Summer Program and Transfer Summer Program at the University of California, Los Angeles, are designed to increase the academic achievement, retention, and graduation of underprepared and underrepresented or low-income students. Underrepresented students are those from ethnic populuations whose statewide high school graduation rate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, College Preparation, Curriculum Evaluation
Clarke, Candice – 1993
This report presents an evaluation of the Bilingual Academic and Career Education Services for Hispanic High School Students (Project BACES), an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its third year of operation at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx and George Washington High School in Manhattan. The project served…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Education
Adler, Laurel; And Others – 1995
The Los Angeles Area Business/Education Partnership provides numerous services designed to encourage youths who have been identified as being at high risk of dropping out of school to complete high school and continue in a formal postsecondary education program. Among the services offered by the partnership are the following: clustered…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Exploration, Career Guidance, Community Programs
