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Direct linkJackson, Yolanda – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to gain insight on whether a significant relationship existed between business partnership engagement for test preparation of an early postsecondary opportunity and students in career and technical pathways. This study was a quasi-experiment analyzing the impact of experiential learning through internships and direct…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship, Experiential Learning, Internship Programs
DeCiccio, Albert; Kenny, Tammy; Lippacher, Linda; Flanary, Barry – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2011
At Southern Vermont College (SVC) and at the nation's other colleges and universities, Anatomy and Physiology I (A&PI) is the gateway course into healthcare careers. Disturbingly, at SVC and elsewhere, many first-year students interested in healthcare careers do not succeed in this course. They withdraw from the course or the institution, or…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Freshmen, Physiology, Anatomy
Parrott-Robbins, Rebecca Jon – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate--by utilizing data obtained from the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) PeopleSoft database-- whether the American College Testing (ACT) assessment was a predictor of student success for students who had graduated from respiratory, radiography, and nursing programs at Southeast…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Technical Institutes, Grade Point Average, Multiple Regression Analysis
Download full textACT, Inc., 2015
ACT has been a leader in measuring college and career readiness trends since 1959. Each August, ACT releases The Condition of College & Career Readiness (www.act.org/newsroom/data/2015), an annual report on the progress of the ACT-tested graduating class relative to college readiness. Nationally, a record 59% of the 2015 graduating class took…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Entrance Examinations, Science Interests, Student Interests
ACT, Inc., 2014
ACT has been a leader in measuring college and career readiness trends since 1959. Each August, they release "The Condition of College & Career Readiness" (www.act.org/newsroom/data/2014), their annual report on the progress of the ACT-tested graduating class relative to college readiness. Nationally, 57% of the 2014 graduating class…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Entrance Examinations, Science Interests, Student Interests
Schultz, Barry; Rakow, Ernest A. – 1999
This study examined the relationship between results of the ACT Assessment and the Health Occupations Basic Entrance Test (HOBET) entrance examinations. The purpose of the study was to estimate the validity of the HOBET as a predictor of student success and to compare the two examinations as predictors of grade point average (GPA) for students in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Correlation
Peer reviewedSchimpfhauser, Frank T.; Broski, David C. – Journal of Allied Health, 1976
The relative strengths and predictive relationships among three cognitive measures (ACT subscores, preprofessional grade point average, and Allied Health Professions Admission Test subscores) and first-year academic success in allied health curricula were examined. Methodology is described and findings presented. Preprofessional grades generally…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Allied Health Occupations Education, Aptitude Tests
Herzog, Valerie W.; Anderson, Dennis; Starkey, Chad – Athletic Training Education Journal, 2008
Objective: To identify those factors that influence freshmen application to Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP)-accredited undergraduate ATEPs having a secondary admissions process. (All undergraduate ATEPs are now accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE)). Design and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Surveys, College Freshmen, Allied Health Occupations
Northern Illinois Univ., De Kalb. Community Coll. Services. – 1971
This document includes summaries of 25 recent research projects in the area of community (junior) colleges undertaken by graduate students at Northern Illinois University. The topics of the projects were: student reactions to senior college; student values and choice of program; personality characteristics and attitudes of nursing students;…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Athletic Coaches, College Curriculum, Data Processing
