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Ibrahim Bicak – Research in Higher Education, 2024
This study describes course withdrawal behaviors in the Texas public higher education institutions and examines the predictors of course withdrawal by using statewide administrative datasets. The findings showed that two-thirds of the college students in the sample withdrew from at least one course, highlighting course withdrawal as a prevalent…
Descriptors: Withdrawal (Education), College Students, Community College Students, Transfer Students
Daugherty, Lindsay; Gerber, Russell; Martorell, Francisco; Miller, Trey; Weisburst, Emily – Research in Higher Education, 2021
Traditionally colleges have relied on standalone non-credit-bearing developmental education (DE) to support students academically and ensure readiness for college-level courses. As emerging evidence has raised concerns about the effectiveness of DE courses, colleges and states have been experimenting with approaches that place students into…
Descriptors: College Students, College Readiness, Student Placement, College Mathematics
Flores, Stella M.; Park, Toby J. – Research in Higher Education, 2015
Using state administrative data for three cohorts of college enrollees from 1997 to 2008 and incorporating propensity score matching techniques, we examine the effects of attending a Minority-Serving Institution (MSI)--that is, a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) or a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI)--on college-completion outcomes…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Black Colleges, Hispanic American Students, African American Students
Niu, Sunny X.; Tienda, Marta – Research in Higher Education, 2013
Using a longitudinal sample of Texas high school seniors of 2002 who enrolled in college within the calendar year of high school graduation, we examine variation in college persistence according to the economic composition of their high schools, which serves as a proxy for unmeasured high school attributes that are conductive to postsecondary…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Time to Degree, Institutional Characteristics, School Demography
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Nora, Amaury; Rendon, Laura I. – Research in Higher Education, 1990
Relationships among student background, initial commitments, social integration, academic integration, and predisposition to transfer were investigated with Hispanic (N=422) and White (N=147) students enrolled in six southwestern community colleges. Ethnic background had no relationship to predisposition to transfer. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Data Analysis, Higher Education