Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 3 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 21 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 55 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Two Year Colleges | 57 |
Postsecondary Education | 46 |
Higher Education | 41 |
Secondary Education | 3 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 2 |
High Schools | 2 |
Adult Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
California | 12 |
Texas | 5 |
New York | 4 |
Florida | 3 |
Illinois | 3 |
Arizona | 2 |
Georgia | 2 |
New York (New York) | 2 |
North Carolina | 2 |
Oregon | 2 |
Virginia | 2 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
COMPASS (Computer Assisted… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 2 |
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 2 |
Jones Legay, Sandra – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As of 2016, women of color held only 7% of the total number of presidential positions in the nation's 1,043 community colleges. The lack of women of color in senior-level leadership positions is rooted in four causes: work and family imbalances, gender and racial biases and stereotypes in the workplace, lack of mentoring, and lack of earned…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Administration, Women Administrators, Doctoral Degrees
Billings, Meredith S.; Gándara, Denisa; Li, Amy Y. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2021
Promise programs are an increasing popular solution to improving college affordability, reducing educational inequities, and promoting economic development. Promise programs are distinct from other forms of financial aid because they emphasize residency in their eligibility criteria, where students must live and/or attend school in specific…
Descriptors: Tuition Grants, Scholarship Funds, Eligibility, Place of Residence
Justina M. Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to implement a redesign of developmental education at Delaware Technical Community College and to evaluate its effectiveness in improving overall First Time Ever in College (FTEIC) student success through gateway English and math completion, fall-to-fall persistence, and narrowing or closing of opportunity gaps…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Academic Achievement
Sefcik, Lesley; Striepe, Michelle; Yorke, Jonathan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2020
Research has shown that academic integrity education programs can have a positive impact on student attitudes and reduce breaches of academic integrity. Although programs vary across institutions, there is relatively little research on their comparative efficacy. Accordingly, this study examines how higher education institutions in Australia and…
Descriptors: Integrity, Cheating, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Nelson, Kathy Hollon – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine if the successful completion of a course designed to enhance student success increased the likelihood of students persisting from term-to-term at Ivy Tech Community College Southern Indiana, and whether there was a significant difference in student retention (as determined by persisting to the next term)…
Descriptors: Success, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Campaign for College Opportunity, 2020
Community colleges play a critical role in providing access to higher education for over two million Californians seeking an educational foundation that will prepare them to transfer to a four-year university or to participate in the workforce. However, community colleges have not always delivered on that promise--fewer than half of students who…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Change, College Programs, Program Implementation
Long, Margaret; Cottrell-Yongye, Adrienne; Huynh, Tyler – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2020
Gwinnett Technical College (GTC), established in 1984, is the second-largest technical college in Georgia. As a two-year open-access college, GTC and other technical and community colleges are significant in educating STEM and nonSTEM majors in the scientific process and scientific literacy. To increase the success of students enrolled in…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Vocational Schools, Nonmajors, Biology
Spellman, Elaine Sabrina – ProQuest LLC, 2019
North Carolina's community colleges redesigned developmental math programs in 2011. The overall effectiveness of the redesign has not yet been evaluated. A concurrent mixed-methods study was conducted at Mid-Atlantic Community College (MACC) for a formative and summative evaluation of the redesigned program. Mezirow's transformative learning…
Descriptors: Remedial Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs, Program Evaluation, Program Design
Digital Promise, 2020
In this report, Every Learner Everywhere & Lighthouse Institutions share first-year experiences of 2- and 4-year colleges piloting new versions of gateway courses incorporating adaptive learning in an effort to address achievement gaps for first-generation students, low-income students, and students of color by improving teaching and learning…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, College Freshmen, Low Income Students, First Generation College Students
Holmes, Cristy Waugh – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Dual enrollment programs across the nation have gained positive attention for increasing access to affordable higher education, elevating academic rigor, and encouraging timely degree completion. However, dual enrollment programs differ significantly in design. This study analyzed the college transfer sector of the Career and College Promise (CCP)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Dual Enrollment, College Transfer Students
Barnett, Elisabeth A. – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2018
Increasing numbers of high schools are offering senior-year transition curricula in math and English to better prepare graduating students for college. These transition curricula are typically full-year, high school credit-bearing courses taken by students at risk of being placed into developmental (also known as remedial) courses upon enrollment…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, College Readiness, At Risk Students, Remedial Instruction
Pierce, Calisa A. – Journal of Developmental Education, 2017
With the continuing national emphases on acceleration and completion, an integrated reading and writing course (a combined developmental reading and developmental writing course, with all levels compressed into a single course) is one way to move students more quickly and efficiently through the developmental sequence while still maintaining…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Community Colleges, Integrated Curriculum, College Programs
Dabkowska, Ewa; Sosnovski, Bianca – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
About half of students attending community colleges leave school before finishing their intended goals. To increase students' retention and to prevent the multiple-repeater problem, Queensborough Community College (QCC) offered a short-term workshop for remedial-mathematics students. This was another chance to exit remediation instead of repeating…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Workshops, Remedial Mathematics, Two Year College Students
Baker, Rachel – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
Most of the students who set out to earn degrees in community colleges never do. Interventions that simplify the complex organizational structures of these schools are promising solutions to this problem. This article is the first to provide rigorous evidence of the effects of structured transfer programs, one such intervention. Leveraging the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Transfer Policy, Transfer Programs
Grewe, Kim E.; Davis, W. Preston – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
Open Educational Resources (OER) are gaining acceptance as legitimate and effective teaching materials in higher education, particularly in 2-year institutions. Despite the steady growth in the availability and use of OER, there have been relatively few studies on the efficacy of OER and student achievement. This study analyzed the effect…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness, Open Source Technology, Educational Resources