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Direct linkJessica Grant DiVenuti Whitten – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Great Expectations is a Virginia Community College System program for youth who were in foster care after the age of 13. Foster youth enter college with multiple disadvantages, including being less academically prepared compared to their peers and often lacking social support for their education. A program evaluation was conducted at a specific…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Community Colleges, Program Implementation, Fidelity
Tambra Lee Riggs-Gutierrez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The relationship between spelling achievement and academic achievement in community college students was investigated in this quantitative study. The research questions focused on whether a brief (under 15 minutes) spelling screening assessment may or may not predict student academic achievement of course grade points earned in an entry-level…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Freshmen, College English, Spelling
Peer reviewedMelissa D. Olfert; Rebecca L. Hagedorn-Hatfield; Bailey Houghtaling; Monica K. Esquivel; Lanae B. Hood; Lillian MacNell; Jessica Soldavini; Maureen Berner; Mateja R. Savoie Roskos; Melanie D. Hingle; Georgianna R. Mann; Julia F. Waity; Linda L. Knol; Jennifer Walsh; Valerie Kern-Lyons; Christopher Paul; Keith Pearson; Jeannine R. Goetz; Marsha Spence; Elizabeth Anderson-Steeves; Elizabeth D. Wall-Bassett; J. Porter Lillis; E. Brooke Kelly; Adam Hege; Mary Catherine Fontenot; Patricia Coleman – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objectives: To quantify the number and type of students failing to secure basic needs. Participants: Students attending 22 postsecondary schools in the United States in Fall 2019. Methods: The Adult Food Security Module and part of the #RealCollege Survey were used to measure food and housing insecurity, respectively. Logistic and linear…
Descriptors: College Students, Hunger, Housing, Homeless People
Jennifer L. Oliver – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study utilized ordinal logistic regression to investigate the factors influencing the completion of dual enrollment courses among male participants in a Virginia high school program. The research aimed to address the significant underrepresentation of Black males in dual enrollment participation and credit attainment compared to their White…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Dual Enrollment, Males, High School Students
Federick Ngo; Dan Cullinan – MDRC, 2022
While most community colleges admit all students who apply for admission, the vast majority have required students to demonstrate specified levels of literacy and numeracy before they can take college-level courses. Typically, students have been assessed using a single placement test, such as the College Board's ACCUPLACER. Colleges--or sometimes…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Placement, School Readiness, Placement Tests
Download full textBickerstaff, Susan; Kopko, Elizabeth; Lewy, Erika B.; Raufman, Julia; Rutschow, Elizabeth Zachry – Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, 2021
Despite evidence suggesting that standardized tests are an imperfect measure of academic readiness, many community colleges across the country rely on them alone to determine student course placement. However, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced campuses to transition to remote operations in spring 2020, proctoring in-person placement tests became…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Student Placement, Alternative Assessment
Huang, Francis L.; Cornell, Dewey G. – School Psychology Review, 2021
Zero tolerance as an approach to school safety has been around for almost 3 decades. Despite widespread criticisms of zero tolerance policies, few empirical studies have investigated the relationship of zero tolerance with school safety. More generally, the Government Accountability Office report on school shootings noted the need for research on…
Descriptors: Zero Tolerance Policy, School Safety, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers
