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Ng, Chenny; Rosenbaum, James E. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Sub-baccalaureate degrees represent a growing and distinctive sector of American higher education. However, policymakers and community colleges lack a clear understanding of the specific competencies learned in these programs that are useful in graduates' careers. In particular, they overlook non-academic skills. This study uses qualitative…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Minimum Competencies, Qualitative Research, Graduate Surveys
Mokher, Christine G.; Rosenbaum, James E.; Gable, Alexis; Ahearn, Caitlin; Jacobson, Louis – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
Florida's College and Career Readiness Initiative (FCCRI) required schools to administer a community college placement test to 11th-grade students and enroll students who did not pass in a college readiness course. Christine Mokher, James Rosenbaum, Alexis Gable, Caitlin Ahearn, and Louis Jacobson surveyed teachers of the course and found that,…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, High School Students, Grade 11
Mokher, Christine G.; Rosenbaum, James E.; Gable, Alexis; Ahearn, Caitlin; Jacobson, Louis – Grantee Submission, 2018
States and districts across the country have experimented with various college and career readiness initiatives designed to help students complete the postsecondary education they need to succeed in the labor market. Yet how do teachers view their students' likely college capabilities following these efforts? Can the reforms help work-bound…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, High School Students, Grade 11
Lansing, Jiffy; Ahearn, Caitlin; Rosenbaum, James E.; Mokher, Christine; Jacobson, Lou – Educational Forum, 2017
This paper analyzes teacher responses to a distinctive reform that sought to implement alignment between high schools and colleges. A survey of 225 teachers is used to examine teachers' perceptions of the reform's effectiveness, further resources needed, and how perceptions changed over time. The reform was perceived as effective for…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Alignment (Education), High Schools, Educational Change
Rosenbaum, James E.; Becker, Kelly Iwanaga; Cepa, Kennan A.; Zapata-Gietl, Claudia E. – Research in Higher Education, 2016
Research often focuses on how students fail to meet college expectations, but it rarely asks how colleges fail to meet students' expectations. This study examines students' expectations of college and their institutional confidence--their level of certainty that college will meet their expectations. Drawing on 65 pilot interviews and a survey of…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Expectation
Margolin, Jonathan; Miller, Shazia Rafiullah; Rosenbaum, James E. – Community College Review, 2013
This study explored whether community college websites are a useful medium for providing knowledge relevant to degree completion. Ten community students used one of three community college websites to answer 10 questions about occupational degree programs. A facilitator asked participants to think aloud while using the website to answer these…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Internet, Video Technology, Protocol Analysis
Redline, Julie E.; Rosenbaum, James E. – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background: Labor market entry is difficult for two-year college graduates. Job search literature focuses on personal connections, but disadvantaged students often lack useful contacts. Moreover, employers often don't recognize and value two-year college credentials as much as bachelor's degrees. Teacher contacts could help, but studies find that…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Job Placement, Employment Programs, Program Effectiveness
Goble, Lisbeth J.; Rosenbaum, James E.; Stephan, Jennifer L. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2008
This article explores institutional attributes that matter for two-year college students and how they vary by different subpopulations of students, with an eye toward understanding what institutional attributes better support the success of underprepared students. In particular, the authors address the following questions: (1) Which institutional…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement, Institutional Characteristics
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Rosenbaum, James E. – Sociology of Education, 1980
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey, the article discusses a study to compare effects of high school tracking in two versions of a status-attainment model--one using students' track perceptions and the other using their actual tracks (taken from school records). Findings indicated that students often misperceive their tracks.…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Applicants, Educational Assessment, Educational Research
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Rosenbaum, James E. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1979
Empirical analysis of data concerning a cohort of employees in a large corporation over a 13-year period indicates that mobility in the earliest period of one's career has an unequivocal relationship with many of the most important parameters of one's later career. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administrators, Career Ladders, Career Opportunities, Longitudinal Studies
Person, Ann E.; Rosenbaum, James E.; Deil-Amen, Regina – Teachers College Record, 2006
Over the past three decades, colleges have experienced revolutionary changes, and the enrollment revolution has had a particularly profound impact on 2-year colleges. We describe the new kinds of students who are entering college today and the ways that colleges have begun to adapt. Then, analyzing interviews with students and administrators and a…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Educational Planning, Two Year Colleges, Enrollment
Self-Selection in Japanese Junior High Schools: A Longitudinal Study of Students' Educational Plans.
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Kariya, Takehiko; Rosenbaum, James E. – Sociology of Education, 1987
Examines how youths' plans are formed in the Japanese educational system compared with plan formation in the U.S. educational system. Studies the stability of Japanese students' plans by junior high school, the responsiveness of plans to grade changes, and high school rank. Discusses adolescent planning confusion and the effect of grades on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Education, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries
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Rosenbaum, James E.; And Others – Journal of Negro Education, 1987
Interviews with mothers and children from 114 low-income Black families who participated in the Gautreaux housing desegregation program and who attend predominantly White suburban schools reveal that suburban teachers provide more help to the children, but evidence racial discrimination. Neither the children's grades nor their satisfaction…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Achievement, Black Family, Black Students
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Rosenbaum, James E.; And Others – American Journal of Education, 1996
Interviews with 27 counselors in 8 high schools demonstrate that counselors do not like to give students bad news about their college prospects and do not believe that they have the authority to do so. Counselors' unwillingness to act as gatekeepers may prevent students from getting the information they need. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Admissions Counseling
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Rosenbaum, James E.; Kariya, Takehiko – American Journal of Sociology, 1989
Examines the agreements Japanese high schools have with employers to hire their students, the reasons these ties are made, and the criteria used to select students. Indicates that competition for jobs is shifted from the labor market to schools and among schools. Reports that academic achievement has greater effects on jobs with linked employers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Job Placement
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