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Download full textCraig Hansen; Melinda Lees – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2025
This support document accompanies the research report, "Understanding the Value of Pre-Apprenticeships," which examines the effect of pre-apprenticeship programs on apprenticeship completions and the value that both students and employers place on pre-apprenticeship programs in helping students to obtain successful apprenticeship…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Value Judgment, Student Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
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Direct linkBassett, Becca Spindel – Journal of College Student Development, 2021
Low-income, first-generation students complete college at disproportionately low rates compared to their higher-income and continuing-generation peers. Actors across federal, state, and institutional levels have developed a wide variety of support programs to increase the retention and graduation rates of this group, and typically measure program…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, First Generation College Students, Females, Late Adolescents
VanOra, Jason – Community College Enterprise, 2019
This longitudinal study examines community college students' evolving perceptions on the value of developmental education. Through a series of semi-structured interviews, students described what they perceived of the advantages of beginning their college careers in developmental reading and writing classes. These advantages included becoming more…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Attitudes, Value Judgment
Stemmer, John K.; Mahan, David M. – College & Research Libraries, 2016
This study connects library user surveys, a common library assessment technique, to institutional data to demonstrate the value an academic library brings to student learning and student outcomes. Using regression techniques, the study identifies multiple significant correlations, both positive and negative, between student use of the library and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Value Judgment, Library Research, Regression (Statistics)
Walden, Michael L. – School Administrator, 2012
For decades, performance-based budgeting has been applied to evaluate the degree to which government programs and agencies are meeting their stated goals in a cost-efficient manner. The same thinking is applied to public education. In today's times of tight budgets and higher expectations, public schools are being asked to justify their budgets…
Descriptors: School Districts, Public Schools, Performance Based Assessment, Cost Effectiveness
Kelly, Patrick J. – Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability, 2009
In 2005, the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) produced a report entitled "A New Look at the Institutional Component of Higher Education Finance: A Guide for Evaluating Performance Relative to Financial Resources." It gauged the performance of state public postsecondary education sectors (i.e. research, bachelor's…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Public Colleges, Productivity, Efficiency
