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Barb A. Kirchmeier – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dual Credit, also known as dual enrollment or concurrent enrollment, has been offered at colleges and universities since the 1970s (Kim & Bragg, 2008). Dual credit programs allow students to take college-level courses while still in high school and receive both college and high school credit for successful completion of the courses. While much…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Writing Skills, Self Efficacy, High School Students
Grant Clayton; Joseph Taylor – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
In the United States high school students may take college level courses that count for credit in both high school and college, often called dual enrollment. Students may take courses at their high school from certified instructors or at a local college. We investigate possible differences between these two groups of students using student level…
Descriptors: Probability, Scores, Computation, Dual Enrollment
Grzybowski, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A high school diploma is no longer the path to financial stability; a person needs at least a postsecondary degree or credential to earn a median income (Carnavale, et al. 2019). Community colleges need to work to create opportunities for all students, including those that may enter school as an adult, and not straight from high school, to attain…
Descriptors: Noncredit Courses, College Credits, Community Colleges, Articulation (Education)
Berek, Jessica; Kortegast, Carrie A. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand how students at a large, suburban community college have utilized credit for prior learning (CPL). This case study included semi-structured interviews with 17 students regarding how they learned about CPL, experiences receiving their credits, and their perceptions of how CPL contributed…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Experience, College Credits, Prior Learning
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2022
Today's learners demand a new, agile model for education. They need options that are more accessible, flexible, and clearly aligned to careers. And to deliver on that, higher education has to break out of time-bound programs--15-credit hour semesters, two-year and four-year degrees--and concepts of learning that are strictly tied to traditional…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Prior Learning, Recognition (Achievement), College Credits
Manuel S. González Canché; Jiayi Arthur Qiu; Kaiwen Zheng; Mingbo Gong; Chelsea Zhang – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Every academic year, millions of college students change institutions before degree completion, confronting the challenge of validating credits across colleges. Despite state-level efforts to legislate strategies for smoother transfers, actual credit recognition relies on non-state-regulated bilateral partnerships that are more (i.e., articulation…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Transfer Policy, Articulation (Education), State Policy
Toward a Comprehensive Model Predicting Credit Loss in Vertical Transfer. EdWorkingPaper No. 24-1050
Matt S. Giani; Lauren Schudde; Tasneem Sultana – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
A growing body of research has documented extensive credit loss among transfer students. However, the field lacks theoretically driven and empirically supported frameworks that can guide credit loss research and reforms. We develop and then test a comprehensive framework designed to address this gap using novel administrative credit loss data from…
Descriptors: College Credits, Majors (Students), Course Content, College Transfer Students
Xiaodan Hu; Jay Menees – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
Community colleges are an important entry point and pathway for students to obtain a postsecondary degree in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. To broaden STEM participation and increase STEM persistence, it is important to support community college students' college-level course completion and academic performance. This…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Community Colleges, STEM Education, Guided Pathways
Meng Ni; Kara Hadley-Shakya – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2024
This study explores how students' initial two years at college influence degree GPA and duration of completion. Results highlight the importance of the first two-year cumulative GPA and credits in forecasting degree outcomes. Early college credits and high school GPA impact success, guiding effective course planning. Implications encompass…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Undergraduate Students, Educational Attainment, Time to Degree
Daugherty, Lindsay; Bahr, Peter Riley; Nguyen, Peter; May-Trifiletti, Jennifer; Columbus, Rooney; Kushner, Jonah – RAND Corporation, 2023
A growing number of postsecondary institutions and systems have begun offering or scaling stackable credential programs. These structured education and training pathways--in fields such as health care, information technology, and manufacturing and engineering technology--provide individuals with opportunities to earn certificates, postsecondary…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Credentials, College Credits, Educational Certificates
Young, Meredith P. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
State and national initiatives focused on meeting student completion goals have been established for higher education to help produce a stronger workforce and meet economic labor market demands. Some of these initiatives have been centered around improving adult learner enrollment and completion. More adult learners are returning to higher…
Descriptors: College Credits, Enrollment, Community Colleges, Community College Students
Hall-Cuccia, Andrea – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined the impact of academic momentum (enrollment intensity, summer enrollment) and loss of momentum (developmental education incidence, excess credit accumulation) points on associate degree attainment among students in the fall 2014 cohort at a California Community College (CCC) in the Central Valley. Completers had a significantly…
Descriptors: Influences, Time to Degree, Community College Students, College Enrollment
Mary E. Alpaugh – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Community colleges have transitioned from traditional developmental course sequences to accelerated corequisite remediation models to provide students with an expedited pathway to college-level courses. This study was designed to compare the mean percentage of passes for participants enrolled in 4 and 6-contact hour corequisite English courses.…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Required Courses, Academic Achievement, Freshman Composition
Julia C. Duncheon; Corey D. Stone; Marilyn Garcia – Journal of College Student Development, 2025
Early college high schools (ECHSs), which combine high school with the first two years of college, have grown in popularity nationwide. Research suggests ECHS participation has positive impacts on college enrollment and completion, but little is known about how ECHS graduates experience university life. Using a framework of college belonging and…
Descriptors: College Preparation, High School Graduates, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience
Ryan S. Wells; Ling Chen – Educational Policy, 2025
As postsecondary developmental education policy reforms are implemented, increased attention must be given to students with learning and attention disabilities. The purpose of this study was to bring these students into the conversation, by examining their representation in developmental education broadly, as well the effect of this intervention…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Developmental Studies Programs, Disproportionate Representation