Today's students experience a great deal of pressure to succeed in school. Since predictors of academic performance are widely used to assess student capabilities, the relationship between one such test, the California Psychological Inventory (CPI), and academic success are examined in this paper. The focus here is on the non-cognitive variables…

This report profiles the enrollment patterns of recent high school graduates of the Greater Sacramento Metropolitan Area who attend Los Rios colleges (California). This summary and the full data report provide the District and its colleges with research information on rates of participation by students who graduated from Los Rios Community College…

This handbook shows how families in various income groups manage to pay for college. The handbook is based on the real experiences of a large number of actual families, as described by national surveys. To find out exactly what it would cost to attend a particular college, the student would have to apply for financial aid, but this guide gives…

California government, college, and university representatives gathered to discuss transfer and articulation issues as part of the ongoing work of the Joint Legislative Committee To Develop a Master Plan for Education. According to attendees: (1) the probable degree attainment rate of a student with direct access to UC or CSU is 70%. In…

This document is the 2000 Institutional Effectiveness report from Piedmont Technical College (South Carolina). The areas that the report addresses are: academic advising, achievement of transfer students, and student development. Findings conclude that advisors need to consider work schedules and job demands when advising students, that Piedmont…

Research has indicated that the parents of Hispanic high school seniors place enormous emphasis on education and believe that a college education is an essential prerequisite for a good job and comfortable middle-class life style. However, compared to non-Hispanic Whites or African Americans, Hispanics are less likely to obtain higher education…

This paper relies on data collected through the TRUCCS (Transfer and Retention of Urban Community College Students) Project, a 3-year, longitudinal and comprehensive study of the goals, success, and academic patterns of 5,000 community college students in urban Los Angeles, California. Researchers collected qualitative data on issues relating to…

This paper relies on data collected through the TRUCCS (Transfer and Retention of Urban Community College Students) Project, a 3-year, longitudinal and comprehensive study of the goals, success, and academic patterns of 5,000 Community College students in urban Los Angeles. Researchers collected qualitative data on issues relating to student…

College enrollment rates of blacks have historically trailed those of whites, although the actual size of the racial gap has fluctuated in recent decades. Using logistic regression and a decomposition analysis, this study investigated the extent to which this college-going gap is due to racial disparities in socioeconomic family backgrounds,…

This report aims to increase awareness regarding the characteristics, goals, and academic accomplishments of the students who graduated from Howard Community College (HCC) and transferred to four-year campuses. The data compiled in this report on transfer students were collected as part of follow-up surveys sent to all HCC graduates approximately…

This articulation report from the Florida Community College System provides headcount statistics for those undergraduate students in Florida's State University System (SUS) who, prior to enrolling in their respective universities, were enrolled in Florida's 28 public community colleges. Tables 1, 2, and 3 display by gender, race, and age,…

This paper analyzes approaches to facilitating school-university transition in South Africa and explores the theories underlying this process. A review of the literature and a case study of the process at the University of Port Elizabeth (UPE) show what is happening to the school-university transition at the end of apartheid. UPE has taken a…

This report documents the results of the transcript evaluation process for British Columbia (BC) college transfer students who applied to the University of Victoria (UVic) for the winter 1998/99 session. It examines the extent to which BC college credits were transferable/transferred to UVic and the reasons why they were sometimes not…

This is a bibliographic list of coaching studies on the SAT conducted by external researchers.