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Yamada, Hiroyuki; Bohannon, Angel X.; Grunow, Alicia; Thorn, Christopher A. – Community College Review, 2018
Objective: Quantway is a Carnegie Math Pathways initiative, which redesigns the content, pedagogy, and structure of traditional developmental mathematics courses to simultaneously tackle traditional barriers to student success and support a broad range of developmental students in achieving their mathematics potential. Specifically, Quantway is a…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Probability, Scores, Developmental Studies Programs
Allen, Janine M.; Smith, Cathleen L.; Muehleck, Jeanette K. – Community College Review, 2013
Educators assert that academic advising before and after transferring enhances the success of baccalaureate degree-seeking students who begin at community colleges. Yet, there is little research that investigates the kinds of advising that are differentially important to pre- versus posttransfer students. In this study, we examined the importance…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Advising, College Transfer Students, Two Year College Students
Sheldon, Caroline Q. – Community College Review, 2009
Logistic regression was employed to determine whether student transfer to for-profit, 4-year colleges (as opposed to other 4-year colleges) is a function of students' social background characteristics, the students' academic experiences at the community college, and the transfer context of the community college attended (i.e., the overall transfer…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, College Transfer Students, Proprietary Schools
Fike, David S.; Fike, Renea – Community College Review, 2008
This study analyzed predictors of fall-to-spring and fall-to-fall retention for 9,200 first-time-in-college students who enrolled in a community college over a four-year period. Findings highlight the impact of developmental education programs and internet-based courses on student persistence. Additional predictors include financial aid, parents'…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, Developmental Studies Programs, School Holding Power
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Lester, David; And Others – Community College Review, 1985
Describes the responses of Atlantic Community College and Richard Stockton State College to the advent of casino gambling in Atlantic City. Provides background information on the two colleges, their students, and their casino education programs, and presents study findings regarding student characteristics and attitudes. (DMM)
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Postsecondary Education, School Business Relationship
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Gragg, William L.; Stroud, Patricia M. – Community College Review, 1977
This report presents the characteristics of students who failed in their first four-year college attempt, then transferred into community colleges, and subsequently moved on to a four-year college and succeeded. While the numbers who moved on through each stage dropped, they were large enough to identify recovery as a valuable community college…
Descriptors: College Role, College Students, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
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Clowes, Darrel A.; Levin, Bernard H. – Community College Review, 1980
Discusses a study using data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 to explore patterns of postsecondary education. Describes the sample, the methodology, and the findings in terms of students' educational aspirations, college attendance, academic aptitude, family background, sex, race, and academic achievement. (AYC)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Academic Aspiration, College Attendance, College Choice
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Bryant, Alyssa N. – Community College Review, 2001
Reviews the literature on recent shifts in student composition at the community college, and the resulting changes in college mission and policies. Also discusses student assessment and placement, student success and retention, and post-college earnings. (Contains 41 references.) (AUTH/NB)
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, College Administration, College Planning, College Students
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Weiss, Dana Freer – Community College Review, 1999
Explores advisors' perspectives on the characteristics of late-admits: how they differ from students who apply earlier, the forces that influence their late decision to attend college, and whether late-admits possess attributes that would put them at risk for attrition. Reveals distinct differences between traditional age (18 to 20) and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attrition (Research Studies), College Admission, College Students