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Herrick, Samantha J.; Lu, Weili; Bullock, Deanna – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2022
This study examined the relationship between acceptance of disability, perceived stigma of students on a college campus and adaptation to college for students with disabilities. One hundred forty-five surveys were collected from student participants via the disability support services offices at sixteen colleges or universities in the northeast…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Student Adjustment, Predictor Variables, Social Bias
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Hirschl, Noah; Smith, Christian Michael – Research in Higher Education, 2020
Recent work has broadened the scope of school effectiveness research to consider not only academic achievement but also other outcomes, especially college attendance. This literature has argued that high schools are an important determinant of college attendance, with some contending that high schools matter more for college attendance than for…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, School Effectiveness, College Attendance, High Schools
Hirschl, Noah; Smith, Christian Michael – Grantee Submission, 2020
Recent work has broadened the scope of school effectiveness research to consider not only academic achievement but also other outcomes, especially college attendance. This literature has argued that high schools are an important determinant of college attendance, with some contending that high schools matter more for college attendance than for…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, School Effectiveness, College Attendance, High Schools
Goff, Peter; You, Eunji; Gandy-Fastovich, Lydia; Yang, Minseok; Batt, Lena; Xie, Xin; Yang, Hyunwoo – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2020
By coupling statewide vacancy/application records with administrative data, we find that activity on the teacher labor market is substantially greater than previously documented, with 53% of novice teachers searching for new positions after their first year and 27% changing schools or leaving the public system. The empirical evidence favors…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Teacher Supply and Demand, Beginning Teachers, Preferences
Xiong, Soua – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine institutional actions that influence service use among SEAA community college students. More specifically, this study investigated the effects of access to services (service access), validating staff members (staff validation), and caring staff members (staff care) on the use of campus services…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Student Behavior
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Okpych, Nathanael J.; Courtney, Mark E. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2021
Youth who were in foster care as adolescents make up a small but highly vulnerable subpopulation of the college student body. This article analyzes secondary data collected from one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies of foster youth. The analytic sample includes 329 foster youth from three Midwestern states who attended college in the…
Descriptors: Barriers, Academic Persistence, Academic Degrees, College Students
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Carlson, Deven; Cowen, Joshua M. – Sociology of Education, 2015
Schools and neighborhoods are thought to be two of the most important contextual influences on student academic outcomes. Drawing on a unique data set that permits simultaneous estimation of neighborhood and school contributions to student test score gains, we analyze the distributions of these contributions to consider the relative importance of…
Descriptors: Scores, Socioeconomic Influences, Neighborhoods, Achievement Gains
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Quinn, Katherine; Ertl, Allison – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2015
This study explores the characteristics and risk behaviors of sexual minority high school students using the 2011 Wisconsin Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Among 3,043 students surveyed, 8% of students identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or unsure, and 7% reported having contact with same-sex partners. Findings indicate sexual minority students…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, At Risk Students, Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality
McKibben, Bryce; La Rocque, Matthew; Cochrane, Debbie – Association of Community College Trustees, 2014
Student loan default, defined as federal loan borrowers' failure to make any payments for at least 270 days, is an issue of increasing importance to community colleges and their students. This report takes a unique look at student loan default at nine community colleges across the nation, and how those colleges are working to help students avoid…
Descriptors: Loan Default, Loan Repayment, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges
Greene, Jay P.; Marsh, Ryan H. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2009
This paper examines evidence on the "systemic effects" of expanding school choice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Milwaukee is home to one of the nation's largest and longest-running school choice programs. If there are systemic effects from expanding school choice we should be able to see them in Milwaukee. This paper also introduces a novel…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Outcome Measures, Competition, Commercialization
Dietrich, Donald Gene – 1970
The purpose of this study was to compare selected Wisconsin secondary schools having high percent enrollments in physics with those having low percent enrollments in physics in terms of certain identified school, teacher, and student characteristics. Selected for the study were 17 schools considered to have a high percent enrollment in physics (25…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Enrollment Influences, Physics