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Download full textOng, Adrian; Circelli, Michelle – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2018
People participate in vocational education and training (VET) for a variety of reasons and at different stages of their life. Some undertake VET to gain the vocational skills necessary to enter the labour market for the first time, while others enter in order to upgrade existing skills, learn new ones, or simply for personal interest. Successful…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Vocational Education, Graduation Rate, Performance Factors
Direct linkDecker, Amber K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Statement of the problem. Too few community college students who intend to transfer and earn a baccalaureate degree actually do. This is a problem because postsecondary education is a key factor in economic mobility, and community colleges enroll a disproportionate number of nontraditional, part-time and low-income students. Although individual…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Transfer Programs, Associate Degrees, Student Characteristics
Kong, Jadie; Powers, Sonya; Starr, Laura; Williams, Natasha – Pearson, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of English language proficiency and academic reading assessment scores to predict the future academic success of English learner (EL) students. Data from two cohorts of middle-school ELs were used to evaluate three prediction models. One cohort of students was used to develop the prediction…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Academic Achievement, Language Proficiency, Reading Tests
Tickell, Geoffrey; Lim, Tiong Kiong; Balachandran, Balasinghan – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
This paper contributes to the continuing debate regarding the curriculum for the first undergraduate course in accounting by examining student perceptions from studying such a course. Participants are divided into two cohorts--Accounting & Finance Majors (AFM) and Other Business Majors (OBM). Results reported in this paper indicate that…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Nonmajors, Student Attitudes, Accounting
Slama, Rachel B. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
Using eight waves of longitudinal data on a statewide kindergarten cohort of English learners (ELs), I examined ELs' tenure in language-learning programs and their academic performance following reclassification as fluent English proficient. I employed discrete-time survival analysis to estimate the average time to and grade of reclassification…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Cohort Analysis, Longitudinal Studies, English (Second Language)
Castellano, Katherine E.; Ho, Andrew D. – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2013
This "Practitioner's Guide to Growth Models," commissioned by the Technical Issues in Large-Scale Assessment (TILSA) and Accountability Systems & Reporting (ASR), collaboratives of the "Council of Chief State School Officers," describes different ways to calculate student academic growth and to make judgments about the…
Descriptors: Guides, Models, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
Peer reviewedMumford, M.D.; Owens, W.A. – Human Development, 1984
Determines patterns of differential human development in a longitudinal study of 417 male and 358 female college students ages 18 to 30. Findings suggest individuality in development is associated with significant qualitative individual differences that are best described on a cross-time basis. (BJD)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Classification, Cohort Analysis, Individual Development
