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Ashley B. Clayton; Rachel E. Worsham – Innovative Higher Education, 2024
This study examined the effectiveness of the Carolina College Advising Corps (CCAC) on two college readiness outcomes: advanced college preparatory course enrollment and SAT test-taking behaviors. The focus of this study is on concrete college readiness measures beyond mere college aspirations, as these measures more accurately predict college…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High Schools, Partnerships in Education, Academic Advising
Is "Option B" a Viable Plan B? School Counselors' Sensemaking of a Dual Enrollment Policy in Georgia
Amy E. Stich; George Spencer; Brionna Johnson; Sean Baser – Innovative Higher Education, 2024
Leveraging the state's dual enrollment program, Georgia policymakers introduced a novel postsecondary pathway called "Option B" that allows students to bypass many traditional high school graduation requirements by completing sub-baccalaureate credentials for career and technical education instead. Given the distinctiveness of this…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Dual Enrollment, Educational Policy, Technical Education
Nuñez, Roland – Innovative Higher Education, 2023
This study aims to understand how prospective first-generation college students develop their perceptions of college engagement before college attendance through secondary sources. A group of high school students were assigned to read a college-themed mystery novel and rank a series of statements relating to college engagement before and after the…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Attitudes, High School Students, College Bound Students
Lee, Daewoo; Pirog, Maureen – Innovative Higher Education, 2023
Geography of opportunity research has identified places with few or no college options: so-called "education deserts." This study extends this geography of opportunity research, exploring how geographical constraints affect students' choices, particularly the choice to attend a for-profit college. Using the Education Longitudinal Study…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Choice, Decision Making, Geographic Location
Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J. – Innovative Higher Education, 2023
In response to concerns about the additional costs and time-to-degree associated with traditional developmental education programs, several states and postsecondary systems have implemented corequisite reform where academically underprepared students take both a developmental education course and college-level course in the same subject area…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Time to Degree, Costs, Remedial Instruction
Fox, Anna; Mwangi, Chrystal George; Pachucki, Mark; Wells, Ryan; Dasgupta, Buju; Thoma, Hanni; Dunton, Sarah; Kimball, Ezekiel – Innovative Higher Education, 2023
Collective impact is an organizational model that is often used as a tool for solving complex social problems through cross-sector collaboration. Traditional applications of this model require a separate backbone organization to oversee the organizational partnership. Using qualitative data from a larger mixed methods study, we examined…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Participation, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Harklau, Linda; Batson, Kate C. – Innovative Higher Education, 2023
Remediation reform is an influential policy movement in U.S. higher education that aims to increase college completion rates. College first-year reading and writing course requirements have been a major focus of this movement, particularly prerequisite "developmental" course sequences for entering students who are deemed underprepared…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Remedial Instruction, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Classroom Diversity and College Student Dropout: New Evidence from Panel Data and Objective Measures
Herzog, Serge – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
To address the mounting concern about the validity of student self-reported data, this study relies on official matriculation records to gauge the effect of classroom diversity on student dropout risk. Using panel data to track the 4-year dropout risk of a cohort of new first-year students (N = 3545) at a public research university, we employ a…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Dropout Characteristics, At Risk Students, College Freshmen
McClurg, Virginia M.; Wu, Jiaju; McCallum, R. Steve – Innovative Higher Education, 2021
In this study, the high school and college GPAs of college students who were screened as twice-exceptional were compared to college students screened as gifted and average college students. From a sample of 32,741 college students, those screened as gifted earned significantly higher means than students screened as twice-exceptional (2e) and the…
Descriptors: College Students, Grade Point Average, High School Students, Gifted Disabled
Sandlin, Jean Kelso; Peña, Edlyn Vallejo – Innovative Higher Education, 2014
An increasing number of institutions utilize social media tools, including student-written blogs, on their admission websites in an effort to enhance authenticity in their recruitment marketing materials. This study offers a framework for understanding what contributes to prospective college students' perceptions of social media authenticity…
Descriptors: Internet, Social Networks, Student Recruitment, College Admission
Tenenbaum, Laura S.; Anderson, Margery K.; Jett, Marti; Yourick, Debra L. – Innovative Higher Education, 2014
This study examined a novel mentoring model, "near-peer mentorship," that supports the development of mentee and mentor, incorporates established principles of mentoring, and offers unique opportunities to integrate research and teaching in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) internship. Using qualitative methods,…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Innovation, Models, Mentors