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Download full textPoorman, Robert L. – 1977
Community colleges may fall short of the expectations made of them but they do so not by design but by lack of design. These expectations and assumptions, as commonly held by community college educators, students, and critics, include both positive and negative myths and realities. The assumptions that community college programs are inexpensive,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Beliefs, College Role, Community Colleges
Garlock, Jerry C. – 1977
In order to deal with the problem of increasing failures and dropouts and the negative impact of large numbers of students lacking basic reading and language skills on instructional activities and materials, the Sociology Department at El Camino College made eligibility for English 1A a prerequisite for its Sociology 5 course in fall 1975. This…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Community Colleges
Portland Public Schools, OR. – 1974
The goal of the FOCUS project is the development and implementation of an alternative school program for high school students which will provide relevant opportunities for student growth, both personal and academic, and thereby reduce the number of dropouts, academic failures, and pupil indifference and disenchantment. Part I of the document deals…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation, Educational Programs, Federal Programs
Lee, Clarence A.; West, John R. – 1974
This report examines the patterns of academic performance and withdrawal rate of first-time freshmen students at Santa Ana College (SAC) in the Fall 1972 semester and compares them to patterns found for the same kind of students at 32 other California community colleges during the same semester. Results indicate that SAC students had lower GPA's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Average, College Freshmen, Credit No Credit Grading
Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, DC. – 1972
The document seeks to identify the issues, programs, and resources most relevant to Youth Development Programs (YDPs) engaged in education programs. YDPs, under the direction of the Office of Economic Opportunity, are designed to help disadvantaged youth while involving them in establishing and operating youth councils and various program…
Descriptors: After School Education, After School Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. Div. of Vocational Education and Community Colleges. – 1975
The project reported in the document focused on two aspects of career education programs. One focus was on determining effective methods for implementing career exploratory experiences for junior high school students. The second focus was on determining effective procedures for establishing a comprehensive school-based placement service for all…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Resources, Dropout Prevention
Kohen, Andrew I.; And Others – 1976
Conceptualizing progress through college as a sequential process, the study examined factors that affect rates of persistence and dropping out, using longitudinal data for a national sample of young men attending college in the late 1960's. A principal conclusion was that factors important to understanding persistence vary with the stage of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropouts, Failure, Higher Education
Palmatier, Robert A.; And Others – 1975
The instructional concept guide is part of a system developed for tutor training and support. It is primarily designed for volunteers, but it can also be adapted to the training of paraprofessional tutors for any type of adult literacy program. A key component in the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Anderson, Ernest F.; DeGray, Judith – 1976
Comparison studies were made of the academic progress of junior college transfers, four-year college transfers, and continuous juniors (natives) at the University of Illinois, as measured by mean grade point average (GPA), academic status, and continued enrollment through the two years after transfer; of the performance after transfer with that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Dropout Rate
Campbell, William J. – 1976
The Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) at Rockland Community College provides direct financial assistance to high risk students. This study compares the performances of 180 part-time EOP students enrolled for the fall 1971 semester (experimental group) with the performances of a randomly selected group of 47 part-time regular students (control…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, College Credits, Community Colleges
Educational Service Region of Cook County, Chicago, IL. – 1974
The general purpose of this descriptive normative survey is to discover what alternative educational programs are being provided in secondary schools in Cook County and to what extent they are attended. The general hypothesis is that relatively few alternative education programs are provided and those that are, are either the traditional,…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, County School Districts, Dropout Prevention, Educational Innovation
Molgat, Paul; MacMillan, J. A. – 1972
The study determined the: (1) relationship between dropout rates and the quality of education, teachers' qualifications, diversity of curriculum and extra-curricular activities, average town income, percentage of the high school population of American Indian or Metis descent, and school size; (2) effects of educational expenditures on business…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Economic Development, Educational Finance, Educational Quality
Thomas, Olive W. – 1974
The Brevard District Plan for placement and follow-up is intended for all secondary students, including dropouts, disadvantaged, adult students, and graduates. The areas of placement may be in gainful employment, educational institutions, or a combination of both. The plan specifies procedures for implementing placement and stipulates the type of…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Adult Students, Data Collection, Dropouts
Eagle, Norman; And Others – 1975
This study presents non-scholastic, non-cognitive factors which a previous study at Bronx Community College (BCC) showed were highly related to student persistence: sex, ethnic group, veteran status, age, income, home ownership, size of household, primary language spoken as a child, parental education, educational aspiration level, satisfaction…
Descriptors: Age, Aspiration, Counseling, Dropout Characteristics
Clifford, Jack W.; And Others – 1969
Prepared by instructors and curriculum specialists, this course of study was designed to meet the individual needs of the dropout and/or hard-core unemployed youth by providing training as a service station attendant and light automotive maintenance mechanic. The achievement level of each student is determined at entry, and small instructional…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Attendants, Auto Mechanics, Course Descriptions
