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Lelys Dinarte-Diaz; Maria Marta Ferreyra; Tatiana Melguizo; Angelica Maria Sanchez-Diaz – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs), lasting two or three years, capture about a quarter of higher education enrollment in the world and can play a key role enhancing workforce skills. In this paper, we estimate the program-level contribution of SCPs to student academic and labor market outcomes, and study how and why these contributions…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Length, Educational Quality, Correlation
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Huerta, Jeffery J.; Watt, Karen M.; Butcher, Jennifer T. – American Secondary Education, 2013
This study examines the impact that Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) in middle school has on middle school course rigor and students' high school performance and college readiness. The study compares students who took AVID in middle school and high school with students who only took AVID in high school. The changes in middle school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Readiness, College Preparation, Program Effectiveness