ERIC Number: EJ729480
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Mar
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-1066-8926
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Transfer between Community Colleges and 4-Year Colleges: The All-American Game
Hagedorn, Linda Serra; Moon, Hye Sun; Cypers, Scott; Maxwell, William E.; Lester, Jaime
Community College Journal of Research & Practice, v30 n3 p223-242 Mar 2006
In this article, the authors introduce a novel way, using the metaphor of a baseball game, to evaluate and measure community college student progress for those whose stated goal is to transfer to a 4-year institution and, ultimately, earn a bachelor's degree. The proposed framework of "the Transfer Game" is an outgrowth of the Transfer and Retention of Urban Community College Students (TRUCCS) project, which is a longitudinal study of 5,000 community college students from the 9-campuses of the Los Angeles Community College District. The goal of the project is to explain how the "all-American game" provides a method to measure, comprehend, and visualize student progression, and identify the factors that predict both success and barriers. The framework provides a scholarly comparison of the all-American game of baseball to the All-American invention of the community college. (Contains 6 tables.)
Descriptors: Team Sports, Figurative Language, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Urban Education, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, Student Characteristics, Achievement Gains
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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