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Frankfort, Jill; Maslin, Adrienne; O'Hara, Ross – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Across the U.S., an estimated 60% of incoming community college students require developmental courses to be ready for college-level work, according to estimates by experts. As these courses act as a gateway to further studies, those who fail are most often lost to higher education: Less than a quarter will earn a degree or certificate within…
Descriptors: Success, Interviews, Opinions, Community Colleges
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Guzy, Annmarie – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2013
Annmarie Guzy, an expert with almost three decades of experience in post-secondary honors education, responds to Jerry Herron's essay, "Notes toward an Excellent Marxist-Elitist Honors Admissions Policy," which argues that "a well-conceived admissions policy tells us much more than whom to recruit; it becomes the basis for a…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Admission Criteria
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Gujarati, Joan – Educational Forum, 2012
Studies have shown that teacher quality is the single greatest factor affecting student achievement. However, it is not simply enough to recruit highly qualified candidates and place them into the schools where they are needed the most; the United States needs a system to support and retain these teachers. This essay posits that school districts…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Labor Turnover, Logical Thinking, Teacher Persistence
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2013
In this webinar, Ellen Moir, CEO and founder of the New Teacher Center, shared research that shows evidence of the effectiveness of the NTC induction model in raising student achievement and its potential for reducing teacher attrition (Moir, 2009). This Q&A addressed the questions participants had for Ellen Moir following the webinar. The…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Effectiveness, Beginning Teacher Induction, Evidence
Hopkins, Megan – Phi Delta Kappan, 2008
Soon after the author began her first year as a Teach for America (TFA) corps member, she realized how underprepared she felt teaching first grade. Although she grew as an educator over time and still committed to working in education, it was an uphill battle. And, like most other TFA corps members, she left teaching within the first three years.…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Beginning Teachers, Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement
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Dishman, Rod K. – Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1986
The author argues that exercise may be a unique health behavior, leaving researchers with problems in understanding exercise compliance. New definitions, new methods, and broader perspectives are needed. Four theories of compliance are described, and problems of research methodology are discussed. (Author/MT)
Descriptors: Adults, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Research, Exercise
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Padilla, Raymond V. – Journal of College Student Retention, 1999
Argues that student success should be the foundation for college student retention efforts. Using a "black box" approach and theoretical framework derived from expert systems and quantitative research methods, it is shown that successful students' knowledge base and behavioral repertoire can be identified systematically and used to help students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Students, Higher Education
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2006
State-level policy support for teacher induction programs can help teachers realize their full potential, keep them in the profession, promote greater student learning, and save money. Higher education institutions and school districts must work together to provide high-quality and well-designed induction programs. This issue of "Policy Matters,"…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Influence, Beginning Teacher Induction
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Wood, Frank H. – Education and Treatment of Children, 1995
The "Ziegarnik effect," a learner's tendency to recall uncompleted tasks longer than completed ones and to remember failures more easily than successes, is applied to improving programs for the subgroup of students with emotional/behavioral disorders who show little benefit from special education interventions, and to teacher…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Failure
Koski, William S.; Levin, Henry M. – 1998
This paper presents preliminary findings of the five-year research project, "Accelerating the Education of Remedial Students in Higher Education," which is examining effects of current remedial courses at the postsecondary level and exploring the applicability of the "accelerated schools" concept as an alternative. This paper…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Delivery Systems, Developmental Studies Programs
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Kluepfel, Gail A.; Hovland, Michael – Journal of Developmental Education, 1994
Michael Hovland, the senior consultant at Noel-Levitz Centers, responds to questions about summer bridge programs, first-year seminar programs, Rutgers' retention model, faculty reactions to retention programs, the impact of retention programs on institutional mission, administrative involvement in retention, student assessment, retention efforts…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Attendance, College Students, Higher Education