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Download full textCyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Austin Slaughter; Noor Amanullah; Sukanya Barman; Cynthia Miller; Colleen Sommo; Erick Alonzo, Contributor; Osvaldo Avila, Contributor; Katie Beal, Contributor; Parker Cellura, Contributor; Ben Cohen, Contributor; Stanley Dai, Contributor; Hannah Dalporto, Contributor; Claudia Escobar, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Marco Lepe, Contributor; Tiffany Morton, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Vivianna Plancarte, Contributor; Alyssa Ratledge, Contributor; Elena Serna-Wallender, Contributor; Andrea Vasquez, Contributor; Rae Walker, Contributor; Michelle Ware, Contributor; Kayla Warner, Contributor; Melissa Wavelet, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor; Diane Wren, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admissions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain postsecondary degrees and achieve economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, Program Development, Costs
Direct linkWentworth, Matthew T. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study examines whether Superintendent-Principal Partnership Longevity has a relationship with student Annual Graduation Rates in New York State from 2009 to 2018. Previous research has explored the role of individual school leadership longevity (superintendent or principal) on student achievement. Superintendent-Principal Partnership…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Principals, Interprofessional Relationship, Graduation Rate
Peer reviewedCarrier, Jonathan W.; Perkins, Mark Andrew; DeDiego, Amanda C. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Community colleges are trending toward a decrease in full-time faculty and an increase in adjunct faculty. Using 2019-2020 IPEDS data from 853 community colleges, researchers explored the relationship between full-time faculty and community college student retention, and combined graduation and transfer rate. Results demonstrated that proportion…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community College Students, Academic Achievement, Adjunct Faculty
Zheng, Yunzheng; Gao, Xingyuan; Shen, Jianping; Johnson, Megan Russell; Y. Krenn, Huilan – NASSP Bulletin, 2023
On-time high school graduation is an important topic in educational research, policy, and practice. However, no comprehensive meta-analyses had been conducted on this topic. The current meta-analysis reviewed 47 articles published from 1985 to April 2022 and aggregated the effect in four dimensions: student background, family support, school…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, High School Students, Student Characteristics, Educational Environment
Jillian Noel Morn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation measures and describes the factors that impact doctoral student persistence. Using a mixed methods cases study design, I analyzed institutional student record data, survey data on caregiving responsibilities, and data from semi-structured interviews with PhD students at a STEM-focused, public research university in the American…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate, Student Responsibility
Angie Reay – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The study evaluated the relationship between female sophomore students' participation in campus recreational sports, retention at the university, and graduation rates. The purpose is to identify the potential influence of participation in recreational activities on persistence toward graduation. Alexander Astin's Theory of Student Involvement and…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Physical Recreation Programs, School Holding Power
Caitlyn A. Bukaty; Clare Papay – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2023
Completing a program of study and earning a credential is a mark of student perseverance and success. Student completion rates can tell us how well colleges and universities support students in completing an educational program. A research study by the US Department of Education reported students who completed non-degree certificate programs had…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Postsecondary Education, Students with Disabilities
McManus, Jennifer Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Military students face many challenges in the transition from military life to higher education. From psychological, mental health issues, career changes, and difficulties interacting and building relationships, many obstacles can delay or stop a military student's path to degree attainment. This study sought to determine if military students are…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Military Personnel, Academic Achievement, Veterans
Rausch, Philip D. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem at the southeastern university study site is that adult nontraditional learners taking classes on campus are graduating at a low rate, which may indicate a lack of needed support services. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore the learning support needs of adult nontraditional learners and institutional support…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, College Students, Graduation Rate
Karl D. Liedtka – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The researcher designed this qualitative descriptive study to investigate the experiences of successful first-generation, low-income college students that contributed to their ability to complete a bachelor's degree. A strength-based perspective was used to examine successful students and their unique abilities, allowing them to overcome various…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Low Income Students, Student Experience, Success
Morgan Polikof; Isabel Clay; Daniel Silver – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2023
Recent state and national achievement exam results, as well as academic progress reports, have underscored how the COVID-19 pandemic and related school closures had a large, negative impact on students' reading and math development. While a great deal is known about the test-based academic impacts of the pandemic such as test scores that provide…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Outcome Measures, Attendance
Samantha H. Souvatzis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this non-experimental quantitative survey method is to gather State GEAR UP leaders' perceptions about the actual program activities and their sense of importance of those same program activities. The objectives of the GEAR UP Program are: (a) to increase the academic performance; (b) preparation for postsecondary education of…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Leaders, Readiness, Graduation Rate
M. Lynn Breyfogle; Kimberly A. Daubman – Student Success, 2024
In an effort to improve student success and thus retention, the College of Arts & Sciences at a highly selective MidAtlantic private undergraduate university in the United States developed a for-credit course titled "Psychology of Success." The course, grounded in positive psychology, adopts a strengths-based approach. Students who…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, School Holding Power, College Freshmen, Academic Probation
Winny Dong; Rebecca M. Eddy; David M. Mendelsohn; Courtney Koletar; Monique Matelski; Everardo Barraza – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2024
This paper reports on the results of a study of 6,654 unique students on the type of research-related activities (e.g., undergraduate research and internships) they participated in while at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). Results indicate that the odds of graduating for students who participated in…
Descriptors: Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions
Sarah Cohodes; Astrid Pineda – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
The charter school movement encompasses many school models. In Massachusetts in the 2010's, the site of our study, urban charter schools primarily used "No Excuses" practices, whereas nonurban charters had greater model variety. Using randomized admissions lotteries, we estimate the impact of charter schools by locality on college…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Educational Practices, School Effectiveness
