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Davidson, J. Cody; Petrosko, Joseph M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
At two-year public community colleges, the 2011 three-year persistence rate was 23.9%. From 1988 to 2006, between 40% and 60% of all first-time community college students were referred to and enrolled in at least one developmental education course. More students begin college underprepared in mathematics than any other subject area, and only about…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Predictor Variables, Technical Education, Academic Persistence
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Budd, Deborah; Stowers, Genie N. L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
This study explores the extent to which community colleges succeed in assisting students to transfer to four-year colleges. The study uses data from the California Community College system to test hypotheses about overall transfers and transfers of underrepresented students, It utilizes a framework based upon social reproduction theory (Bowles…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Articulation (Education), Hypothesis Testing
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Moosai, Susan; Walker, David A.; Floyd, Deborah L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
Prediction models using graduation rate as the performance indicator were obtained for community colleges in California, Florida, and Michigan. The results of this study indicated that institutional graduation rate could be predicted effectively from an aggregate of student and institutional characteristics. A performance measure was computed, the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Institutional Evaluation, Institutional Characteristics