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Terence P. Rusch – ProQuest LLC, 2024
It is acknowledged that English language learners (ELL) perform lower than their non-ELL peers and that their lack of language acquisition impacts their graduation rates. However, the approaches taken to reduce the achievement gap between ELL and non-ELL students varies widely. To maximize ELL graduation rates, content area and ELL teachers need…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Skills, Achievement Gap, Native Speakers
Yongmei Ni; Charisse A. Gulosino; Andrea K. Rorrer; Bill Altermatt – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
High school graduation is a meaningful indicator of student achievement and a stronger predictor of long-term quality of life outcomes compared to student test scores. The existing body of research has been limited on whether charter attendance improves high school graduation and whether charter attendance helps narrow the graduation gap among…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, High School Students, Graduation Rate, Longitudinal Studies
Angela M. Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Adult learners seeking to earn a high school equivalency (HSE), like the general education development (GED), must often overcome major difficulties to persist (Comings, 2007) and succeed academically (Hansman & Mott, 2010). Adult learners might require hundreds of hours of training in GED programs to make up for early departure in high school…
Descriptors: Adult Students, High School Equivalency Programs, Academic Persistence, Barriers
Justin C. Ortagus; Rodney Hughes; Hope Allchin – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
This study leverages national data and a quasi-experimental design to examine the influence of enrolling in an exclusively online degree program on students' likelihood of completing their degree. We find that enrolling in an exclusively online degree program had a negative influence on students' likelihood of completing their bachelor's degree or…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Degrees, Distance Education, Online Courses
Kimberly Christine Stinson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The lived experiences of Black/African American male students at a suburban community college in North Carolina were explored in this qualitative narrative study. Institutional data from the North Carolina Community College System revealed these students had the lowest percentages of persistence toward degree completion and of graduation. In an…
Descriptors: African American Students, Community College Students, Student Experience, Academic Persistence
Dustin William Louie; Leona Prince – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
This research project was designed to attend to inequity for Indigenous students, communities, and knowledges in a northern British Columbian district. The aims of the article are to share the systemic and individual transformation for Indigenous learners and their families based on the strengths and barriers they perceive in the system. Presented…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Graduation Rate, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries
Albert Sánchez-Gelabert – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
The recent complexity of the university system, with diverse academic trajectories and varying socio-demographic characteristics of students, has led to increased access for historically underrepresented students. This has resulted in a rising number of adult learners, students with external responsibilities and individuals returning to education.…
Descriptors: Age, Employment, Graduation Rate, Foreign Countries
Ce'Vin V. Barnes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative correlational study aimed to investigate how the implementation of exclusionary disciplinary measures impacts the academic performance of African American students in urban school districts of Louisiana, and to explore gender differentials in the application of exclusionary discipline practices. Linear regression results indicate…
Descriptors: Discipline, African American Students, Urban Schools, School Districts
Phuc D. Do – Online Submission, 2024
This dissertation investigates the application of deliberate practice principles in improving pass rates for professional real estate licensing exams. The study explores the efficacy of structured, targeted practice sessions, including expert feedback, as compared to traditional study methods. Using a quasi-experimental design, the research…
Descriptors: Real Estate, Certification, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Graduation Rate
Frederick Tucker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Institutional reliance on tenure-line faculty reached a historic low after the Great Recession in 2009, remaining at approximately a third of all faculty through 2022. Postsecondary institutions have steadily increased their reliance on full-time adjunct faculty over the last two decades. Part-time adjuncts, meanwhile, were hired in great numbers…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty
Cody Jacob Patterson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Although there is a growing body of research on retention of higher education students, there is a constant need for more because of ever-changing variables that affect attrition. With dynamic retention issues changing, new empirical research such as this study can be used to keep up with higher education attrition. The specific purpose of this…
Descriptors: Student Athletes, Student Participation, Sense of Community, Graduation Rate
Deirdre Michelle Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
For the purposes of this study, criteria for non-traditional students were: adults ages 25 and older, race/ethnicity, gender, entry date or transfer to a community college in Middle Tennessee during fall 2015 through summer 2021, and Pell/Grant eligibility. The problem is that non-traditional students have lower completions than traditional…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Adult Students, Graduation Rate, Nontraditional Students
Michael W. Nelsen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Population dynamics modeling using stage-based transition matrices has been used in ecology for six decades. However, the data analysis method has never been used for students in higher education. This applied doctoral project used the principles of population dynamics to assess two student populations at an institution of higher education…
Descriptors: Intervention, Time Management, School Holding Power, Graduation Rate
Hobson, Charles J.; Griffin, Andrea; Novak, John M.; Mitchell, Mary Beth; Szostek, Jana; Hobson, Alexandro J. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2023
Using U.S. Department of Education 6-year college graduation rate data for 17 cohorts (1996-2002) to (2012-2018), adverse impact on Black students as compared to White students was evaluated for all 50 states and D.C. Potential relationships between state adverse impact and Black population percentage, geographic location, and political…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Time to Degree, African American Students, Racial Differences
Lamont A. Sellers – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present study examines the differences between public baccalaureate institutional expenditures and Pell Grant recipient graduation rates at high and low Pell Grant recipient graduating institutions. IPEDS data were analyzed, including instructional, academic support, student services, institutional support, and Pell Grant recipient 6-year…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Tuition Grants, Graduation Rate, Expenditure per Student