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Peer reviewedTedrow, Jeanette W.; Rust, James O. – Reading Improvement, 1994
Finds that developmental reading students were as successful in college as low ACT nondevelopmental students but not as successful as the higher ACT students. Suggests that ACT scores and age were the best predictors of college success. Demonstrates the need for developmental classes for underprepared college freshmen. (RS)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Dropout Research, Higher Education, Predictor Variables
Leitka, Eugene – 1973
The effectiveness of Native American Studies Programs in universities and colleges throughout the United States and Canada was studied. The main thrust of the hypothesis was that a comparative study be made of the varied components of each Native Studies Program and the relationship to its holding power of Indian students as compared to…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations
Download full textQuebec Commission on the Evaluation of Collegiate Teaching (Quebec). – 1997
In 1990, social science programs in Quebec's colleges in Canada were revised to standardize core courses and objectives across individual courses. Subsequently, the province's Commission on the Evaluation of Collegiate Teaching undertook an evaluation of the revised program to determine its administration and effectiveness, as well as the…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Dropout Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Hanushek, Eric A.; Lavy, Victor – 1994
This paper demonstrates the analytical importance of employing output-based measures of school quality. The empirical analysis employs data collected in a longitudinal survey of primary school students in Egypt during 2 academic years, 1978-79 and 1979-80. School quality and grade completion are shown to be directly linked, leading to very…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Developing Nations, Dropout Rate
Franklin, Cynthia; And Others – 1988
This study evaluated the effectiveness of an educational and treatment program for high school dropouts initiated by a private alternative school contracting with a graduate school of social work. The Cassata Program, a joint effort by the Cassata Learning Center and the University of Texas at Arlington, was designed to improve students' academic…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics
Chaney, Bradford; Farris, Elizabeth – 1991
A survey was conducted to evaluate nationally the retention of undergraduates at institutions of higher education. In particular the survey sought to: determine the rates at which full-time students persisted in and completed higher education; identify factors that institutional representatives felt influence students to leave school; and describe…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Attendance
