ERIC Number: EJ1183473
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Jul
Pages: 26
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Collaboratively Clearing the Path to a Baccalaureate Degree: Identifying Effective 2- to 4-Year College Transfer Partnerships
Xu, Di; Ran, Florence Xiaotao; Fink, John; Jenkins, Davis; Dundar, Afet
Community College Review, v46 n3 p231-256 Jul 2018
Objective: This study develops an analytical framework for identifying effective partnerships between 2- and 4-year institutions that enable community college entrants to transfer to a 4-year institution and earn a bachelor's degree in a timely fashion. Method: Using the individual term-by-term college enrollment and degree records from the National Student Clearinghouse for the entire 2007 fall cohort of first-time-in-college community college students nationwide, we use regressions to control for student and institutional characteristics in identifying effective partnerships in two steps: first, we identify community colleges with large residual values (better than expected outcomes); and second, we identify the 4-year partners of those community colleges with large residual values. Results: Descriptive results on the variation in transfer outcomes among the thousands of unique transfer partnerships nationally are presented alongside results from regressions used in the two-step effective transfer partnership identification. Contributions: Recommendations and considerations for using this framework to evaluate and benchmark institutional performance in supporting the academic success of vertical transfer students for baccalaureate attainment are also discussed.
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Partnerships in Education, Community Colleges, Regression (Statistics), Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Student Records, Bachelors Degrees, Databases, Outcomes of Education, Benchmarking, Socioeconomic Status, Two Year College Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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