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Direct linkKruse, Heather L. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The researcher for this evaluative study investigated the efficacy and impact of the iStartSmart college success course by examining the first-term retention, fall-to-fall persistence, and three-year completion rates of community college students who enrolled in the one- or three-credit course at a community college in Arizona and the rates of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Improvement Programs, Success
Download full textWang, Y. Lawrence; Johnstone, Whitcomb – 1997
An evaluation of the developmental first grade, or pre-first grade, program of the Irving Independent School District (Texas) was conducted through four studies. Students are placed in the pre-first grade as a transition between kindergarten and first grade, typically on the basis of some assessment of maturity. The first study examined the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Developmental Programs, Ethnicity
Reap, Margaret C.; Covington, Helen C. – 1980
A study was conducted at North Harris County College to determine the extent to which its Developmental Studies Program (DSP) was meeting stated goals and to assess the predictive reliability of the screening tests used to place incoming students in DSP courses. The study involved: (1) an assessment of the need for the DSP program as evidenced by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age, Community Colleges
