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May, Joseph E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
One of the most problematic issues facing community colleges is developmental education. In the last decade, more research has been conducted examining developmental education. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of developmental math in a rural community college setting. Is developmental math an effective intervention?…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics, College Freshmen
Gonzalez Quiroz, Alicia; Garza, Nora R. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2018
Using research focused on best practices, focus group information, and data analytics, the Title V: Focus on Student Success (FOSS) Grant created a model for the development, implementation, and evaluation of a summer bridge program. Results included increased academic performance indicators in first-year Hispanic college students. Validation for…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Success, Best Practices, Focus Groups
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Karp, Melinda Mechur; Raufman, Julia; Efthimiou, Chris; Ritze, Nancy – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
In response to strikingly low completion rates in public 2-year colleges, including for students who are well-prepared academically, most community colleges across the country offer student success courses as one approach to improving outcomes for students. Some colleges have begun to revise these courses in response to research indicating that…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, First Year Seminars
Gonzalez Quiroz, Alicia; Garza, Nora – American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, 2017
Summer bridge programs support post-secondary success by providing intensive, short-term academic and social resources while introducing college expectations and the cultural contexts of the institution. They typically are offered in the summer between high school graduation and the first term of college and vary in content, program size and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Success, Best Practices, Focus Groups
Malbin, Joshua – MDRC, 2016
When they arrive at community colleges or open-enrollment universities, most students take placement exams in English and mathematics to determine whether they are ready for college-level courses. Students with low scores are referred to developmental--remedial--courses. Forty percent of all entering college students and over half of entering…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges, College Students
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Weiss, Michael J.; Mayer, Alexander K.; Cullinan, Dan; Ratledge, Alyssa; Sommo, Colleen; Diamond, John – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, enrolling more than one in every three postsecondary students. While their market share has grown over the past 50 years, students' success rates remain low. Consequently, community college stakeholders are searching with mounting urgency for strategies that increase rates of success. We…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Communities of Practice, Graduation Rate, Education Work Relationship
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Mayer, Alexander K.; Patel, Reshma; Gutierrez, Melvin – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
A college degree is often viewed as a key step toward better employment and higher earnings. Many community college students, however, never graduate and cannot reap the financial benefits associated with a college degree. Although existing research suggests that financial aid interventions can modestly improve students' short-term academic…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Scholarship, Graduation Rate, Employment Potential
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Sass, Margaret S.; Coll, Ken – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
This study discusses the implementation of a service learning component in community college communication 101 level courses. Through the execution of a service learning component in communication classes at a community college, students' communicative competency and attitude toward community service is assessed. Using two different delivery…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Service Learning, Curriculum Implementation
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Unlu, Fatih; Furey, Jane – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
This paper presents results from the longitudinal experimental study conducted on North Carolina's early college model described in an earlier paper. The primary purpose of this paper is to present the impact of the early college model on outcomes related to postsecondary enrollment. The specific research questions driving this study include: (1)…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Outcomes of Education, College Attendance, Enrollment Trends
Cumberbatch-Sullivan, Karen J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quantitative, causal-comparative research study investigated the effectiveness of a strategy to address concerns in nursing education about the high attrition rates and poor retention rates of pre-licensure nursing students, particularly in the first semester of nursing school. Two research questions guided this study and focused on the…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Student Attrition, Remedial Instruction
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Hodara, Michelle; Jaggars, Shanna Smith – Journal of Higher Education, 2014
In an effort to improve developmental education students' outcomes, community colleges have been experimenting with acceleration strategies. Models of acceleration allow students to complete their developmental requirements in a shorter amount of time. However, there has been limited empirical research on the effects of accelerating students'…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Acceleration (Education), Program Effectiveness
Weiss, Michael J.; Mayer, Alexander; Cullinan, Dan; Ratledge, Alyssa; Sommo, Colleen; Diamond, John – MDRC, 2014
Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, enrolling more than one in every three postsecondary students. While the market share of these institutions has grown over the past 50 years, students' success rates remain low. Consequently, community college stakeholders are searching with mounting urgency for strategies that increase…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Urban Schools, Control Groups
Frye, Bobbie Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Traditionally, modeling student retention has been done by deriving student success predictors and measuring the likelihood of success based on several background factors such as age, race, gender, and other pre-college variables, also known as the input-output model. Increasingly, however, researchers have used mediating factors of the student…
Descriptors: Scores, Two Year College Students, Academic Persistence, Developmental Studies Programs
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Attewell, Paul; Douglas, Daniel – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
This paper uses the credits-attempted perspective--in the context of how many credits a student attempts in their first year of college--and reports on several related projects all intended to evaluate potential interventions to raise academic momentum among first-year community college students. The presentation contrasts non-experimental…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Freshmen, Academic Achievement
Mayer, Alexander K.; Patel, Reshma; Gutierrez, Melvin – MDRC, 2015
A college degree is often viewed as a key step toward better employment and higher earnings. Many community college students, however, never graduate and cannot reap the financial benefits associated with a college degree. Although existing research suggests that financial aid interventions can modestly improve students' short-term academic…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Student Financial Aid, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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