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William Vega – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Though online course offerings have expanded to meet the needs of student access in the context of funding constraints, research has shown worse student outcomes in online classes, with significant inequities by race and ethnicity. Consequently, the proliferation of online course offerings could have vast implications for equity in the California…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Community College Students, Academic Persistence, Time to Degree
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Robert Linden; Michal Kurlaender; Paco Martorell; Scott E. Carrell – Grantee Submission, 2022
Using rich administrative data from the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office that tracks each student longitudinally, this analysis examines how the onset of the pandemic affected student enrollment duration. Data are disaggregated by student characteristics and college campuses in order to understand variable impacts and equity…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Enrollment, Academic Persistence
Okpych, Nathanael J.; Park, Sunggeun; Courtney, Mark E.; Powers, Jenna – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2021
Graduating from college is a life-transforming achievement for young people with foster care backgrounds. Not only do the majority of adolescents in foster care aspire to finish college, but holding a degree has been associated with an increased likelihood of being employed and having higher earnings. Still, existing research estimates that fewer…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Graduation Rate, Young Adults, Associate Degrees
Grace Yeeun Lee Seo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Hispanic first-generation college students (FGCS) experience more potential barriers to college success than continuing generation college students (CGCS). With an eye toward identifying ways to support students in negotiating these barriers, there were three purposes to this study. First was to understand the variability among Hispanic FGCS based…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, First Generation College Students, Barriers, Success
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Watson, Jennifer Moradian – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2018
Teacher retention has been studied for decades, yet it has recently assumed renewed significance due to current teacher shortages. This study was designed to determine whether teachers' job embeddedness (JE) is related to turnover. JE is found in organizational literature (Mitchell, Holtom, Lee, Sablynski, & Erez, 2001) and has been a robust…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Beginning Teachers, Predictor Variables, Talent
Staylor, Maya – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Community colleges are an important, yet understudied, tier of the higher education system in the United States. Community colleges serve students from all socio-economic backgrounds. As such, community college students face challenges to their educations not seen in those attending more traditional schools. This dissertation recognizes these…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Barriers, Academic Persistence
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Sklar, Jeffrey C. – NACADA Journal, 2018
Students change their majors for various reasons, and academic advisors often assume the role of facilitating that change through institutional agreements or contracts. Therefore, advisors need to identify time periods during enrollment with the greatest likelihood that students will seek to change majors. They must also examine the student…
Descriptors: Change, Decision Making, Majors (Students), Student Characteristics
Raymond Ramirez – ProQuest LLC, 2019
California community colleges account for the overwhelming majority of Latinx student enrollment in public higher education institutions. However, student equity or parity in educational outcomes in California community colleges continue to be a problem, especially for Latino men. While the research concerning these men has increased in recent…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Hispanic American Students, Community College Students, Barriers
Kurlaender, Michal; Cohen, Kramer – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2019
The Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBAC), implemented in California in 2014-15 as part of the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, is designed to evaluate students' levels of college and career readiness. Student scores on the Smarter Balanced Assessment are currently used for both accountability and school improvement…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, College Readiness, Academic Achievement, High School Students
Jackson, Jacob – Public Policy Institute of California, 2020
These technical appendixes accompany the study, "Getting to Graduation on Time at California State University." The study uses a combination of campus-wide and student-level data from the California State University (CSU) system to examine the relationship between course-taking and on-time graduation. The first appendix provides…
Descriptors: Time to Degree, Academic Persistence, College Credits, Courses
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Wanzer, Dana; Postlewaite, Elyse; Zargarpour, Nazanin – AERA Open, 2019
In response to interest in the role of noncognitive factors in academic performance, several theoretical models have been developed; however, there have been few empirical attempts to validate those models, particularly with minority populations. This study used measures of academic mindsets, social skills, academic perseverance, learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Interpersonal Competence, Academic Persistence, Learning Strategies
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Okpych, Nathanael; Courtney, Mark – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
This paper draws on data collected from two of the most extensive longitudinal studies of care leavers in the US. The Midwest Study (2003-2011) included 732 youths in foster care in three Midwestern states, and the CalYOUTH Study (2012-present) includes 727 youths in California foster care. The paper has three objectives: (1) describe trends in…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Educational Attainment
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Hackett, Cedric D.; Lo, Sheba – Journal of Negro Education, 2018
This investigative engagement study explored the relationship between self-reported well-being indicators among students at an urban university in southern California and sought to identify variables that predict engaged learning among students who enroll in Africana Studies courses. This study used a correlational design involving an online…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Learner Engagement, Afrocentrism, Well Being
Watson, Jennifer Moradian; Olson-Buchanan, Julie – Education Leadership Review, 2016
The high turnover rates among teachers, particularly novice teachers, is a significant problem in the field of education. This study examines the relationship between teacher turnover and a construct found in organizational literature--job embeddedness. Job embeddedness is the extent to which an employee connects socially and emotionally to their…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Sense of Community, Elementary School Teachers
Powell, Torence J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The California Community College system, as an open access institution, is tasked with helping students who possess math skills far below college-level complete math course requirements for obtaining an associate degree or transfer to a university. Colleges have created various developmental math programs to achieve this mission; this paper…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics
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