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Moore, LaSonya; Rosenblatt, Kara; Badgett, Kevin; Eldridge, James – Online Submission, 2018
Teacher turnover in urban high-poverty schools is detrimental to students' achievement. In fact, one of the most prevalent social justice issues today is the unequal distribution of experienced teachers to urban high-poverty schools. Researchers suggest that experienced teachers are more effective at raising student performance than new or early…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Teacher Persistence, Tenure, Beginning Teachers
Schmitt, Lisa N. T.; Cornetto, Karen M. – Online Submission, 2015
This executive summary highlights findings from the full report (published separately), describing how many teachers transferred or changed jobs in AISD, remained at their schools, or left the school district after the 2013-2014 school year, along with characteristics of teachers in each group. A separate research brief also was published. [For…
Descriptors: School Districts, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Transfer, Teacher Persistence
Wiggins, Afi Y. – Online Submission, 2015
This supplemental report provides technical documentation for the main report (published separately). A significantly higher percentage of AISD graduates enrolled in postsecondary institutions in 2014 (66%) than enrolled in 2013 (63%). Eighty-one percent of Class of 2013 graduates enrolled and persisted in a postsecondary institution 2 consecutive…
Descriptors: College Enrollment, High School Graduates, School Districts, Academic Persistence
Looby, Karen; Pazera, Carol; Fowler, Laura Sanchez – Online Submission, 2013
This report presents postsecondary enrollment for AISD's Class of 2011 during the year after high school graduation. Since 2002, AISD postsecondary enrollment has increased incrementally, from 62% to 68%.
Descriptors: High School Graduates, College Enrollment, Trend Analysis, College Attendance
Wiggins, Afi Y.; Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2015
A significantly higher percentage of AISD graduates enrolled in postsecondary institutions in 2014 (66%) than enrolled in 2013 (63%). Eighty-one percent of Class of 2013 graduates enrolled and persisted in a postsecondary institution 2 consecutive years after high school graduation. The supplemental report (published separately) provides technical…
Descriptors: College Enrollment, High School Graduates, School Districts, Predictor Variables
Wiggins, Afi Y.; Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2015
This report summarizes postsecondary enrollment persistence for Austin Independent School District's (AISD) Class of 2013 graduates and the factors influencing their persistence in college.
Descriptors: School Districts, High School Graduates, Academic Persistence, College Attendance
Apaloo, Francis – Online Submission, 2014
Educators and policymakers are concerned about high student mobility, especially because mobility is associated with negative academic performance outcomes for students in particular and for schools more generally. Furthermore, student mobility may lower educational performance for at-risk and low-performing students compared with peers who remain…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement, School Surveys
Urick, Angela M. – Online Submission, 2012
Schools with high teacher turnover struggle to build capacity and increase student achievement. Leadership styles, such as shared instructional leadership found to have the largest effect on student achievement, may also help retain teachers. A long history of research has examined idealized, or effective, leadership styles and their relationship…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Principals, Leadership Styles, Teacher Attitudes
Wiggins, Afi Y. – Online Submission, 2015
Sixty-three percent of AISD's Class of 2013 graduates enrolled in a postsecondary institution the year after high school, and 74% of Class of 2012 graduates persisted in college for a second year. A supplemental report (published separately) provides technical documentation. [For the technical documentation report, see ED626499.]
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, College Attendance, High School Graduates, Academic Persistence
Cohen, Kristin E. – Online Submission, 2012
This study was designed to investigate the factors that affect master's student persistence in the United States. More specifically, this study explored whether the following factors: students' background, institution's, academic, environmental and psychological influences, had a significant effect on whether a master's student persisted and/or…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Student Attrition, Models, Performance Factors
Rogulkin, Dmitri – Online Submission, 2011
The second year of college can be as important as the first year but far fewer studies have been conducted on second-year students. About 12% of students leave California State University - Fresno during or after their second year. In this report, we examined second year students to find the differences between those who graduate and those who…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence, At Risk Students
DiBenedetto, Maria K.; Bembenutty, Hefer – Online Submission, 2011
The present study examined the associations between self-regulated learning and science achievement and whether the academic self-regulation variables described, such as self-efficacy, delay of gratification, and help seeking, predict science achievement in courses deemed necessary for a major in science. It was hypothesized that students who do…
Descriptors: College Students, Help Seeking, Delay of Gratification, Self Efficacy
Rogulkin, Dmitri – Online Submission, 2009
When students take courses out of sequence, it can have a detrimental effect on both teaching and learning. At California State University-Fresno, we see a considerable number of freshmen taking upper division classes and an even larger number of upper-division students taking lower level classes. The purpose of this study was to examine academic…
Descriptors: College Students, Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement, Course Selection (Students)
Preuss, Michael; Switalski, Rachael – Online Submission, 2008
Retaining and aiding students on academic probation is a concern for all institutions of higher education. Students placed on academic probation by Rockingham Community College (RCC) have been encouraged to participate in an intervention program since the summer of 2006. When treated as an aggregate, the data regarding the program indicates that…
Descriptors: Intervention, Grade Point Average, Colleges, Academic Probation
Fornes, Sandra L. – Online Submission, 2008
This research provides an analysis of factors predicting job retention (JR), job satisfaction (JS), and job performance (JP) of workers with mental retardation (MR). The findings highlight self-determination as a critical skill in influencing three important employee's outcomes, JR, JS, and JP. The intent of the study was to develop job retention…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Mental Retardation, Job Performance, Job Skills