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Gray Carpenter Church – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Competency-based education (CBE) is a learner-centric framework that emphasizes what students "know and can show" more than how much time they spend in the classroom. CBE advocates claim that by allowing students to take as little or as much time as they need to demonstrate their mastery of course competencies, students develop higher…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Conventional Instruction, Postsecondary Education, College Graduates
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Steve Wilson; Alexis McCullough-Wilson – Intercultural Education, 2024
Texas higher education institutions serve some of the most diverse student populations in U.S. institutions. However, graduation rates remain among the lowest in the United States, particularly for underrepresented minority students. Diverse faculty members who act as mentors have the potential to increase underrepresented minority students'…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Diversity (Faculty), Graduation Rate, Minority Group Students
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Bob Blankenberger; Rob Kerr; Ty Dooley – Educational Policy, 2024
In this study we employed regression analysis and between-group matched pair design to analyze whether participation in a competency-based education pilot was associated with improved high school completion and postsecondary entry. Data were obtained for high schools participating in a CBE pilot program in Illinois. Results of the matched pair…
Descriptors: High Schools, Competency Based Education, Pilot Projects, Educational Attainment
Angela Kelly Stone – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to determine the moderating effects of economic advantage and race/ethnicity on graduation rates during COVID-19. Data collected from the Tennessee Department of Education's Graduation Cohort Rates was examined for a numerical relationship between the variable of race/ethnicity with…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Racial Differences, Ethnicity, High School Students
Stéphane Lavertu – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2024
For more than twenty-five years, public charter schools have served Ohio families and communities by providing quality educational options beyond the local school district. But it's no secret that we've also had a long-standing debate over whether increasing school choice impacts students who remain in traditional districts. In important--and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Choice, Graduation Rate, Attendance Patterns
Miran Kang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The study compared the Outcome Measures (OM) to the traditional Graduation Rates (GR) to ascertain if OM portrayed the performance of higher education institutions differently than GR and to determine which of the two metrics aligned better with accountability policy objectives. GR refers to the percentages of first-time, full-time students who…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Higher Education, Accountability, Educational Policy
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2023
This publication presents information on the vocational education and training (VET) undertaken by school students as part of their senior secondary certificate of education (SSCE). Students can undertake VET through a school-based apprenticeship or traineeship pathway, or other pathway. Highlights include: (1) In 2022, in Australia there were 242…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, School Statistics, Certification
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Anita Caduff; Nabamallika Dehingia; Anita Raj – AERA Open, 2023
Social capital, including engagement with mentors, facilitates educational attainment. However, engagement with mentors differs significantly across groups of adolescents with different backgrounds, including an immigrant background. We investigate how immigrant generation predicts adolescents' engagement with mentors and different types of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Mentors, Educational Attainment, Adolescents
Melanie S. Largin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Reversing the trend of US STEM graduation rates lagging other industrialized nations requires that we look at the entire pipeline of potential STEM students, including the vast number that start their journeys in remedial math classrooms in two-year colleges. Most research to date has focused on either Learning Support (LS) success or STEM…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Two Year College Students, Time to Degree, STEM Education
Leila Abouzaki – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed through this study is that the completion rates of doctoral programs in the United States range as low as 40%. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the perceptions of higher education leaders (HELs) on their successes and challenges in increasing completion rates in their doctoral programs. The list of values…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, Graduation Rate, Administrator Attitudes
Gabrielle Elizabeth Sokol – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Degree attainment is a shared goal of college students, higher education institutions, and the larger society, as graduates have lower rates of unemployment, higher rates of civic engagement, pay higher taxes, and are able to better prepare future generations for academic success as compared to their counterparts (Museus et al., 2008).…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Success, Athletics
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Toni Mora; Josep-Oriol Escardíbul; Pilar Pineda-Herrero – Educational Review, 2024
Dual vocational education and training (VET) has recently been introduced in Catalonia, as in the whole of Spain, and it should be the only VET system in the near future. However, Dual VET still coexists with traditional VET. The former has much more on-the-job training, companies are more involved in curricula design and training management, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement
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Kelly Young; Angelo Fynn – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2024
Psychological grit has gained substantial interest among traditional higher education practitioners, with many seeking the link between grit, academic performance and retention. The literature pertaining to distance education cohorts is scant, however, especially within the South African context, which holds unique challenges for accessing and…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), College Faculty, Distance Education, Academic Persistence
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2024
This publication presents completion and attrition rates for apprentices and trainees four years after commencement for contracts and individuals. (1) Contract completion and attrition rates are derived by tracking the outcomes of contracts of training over time; and (2) Individual completion rates account for individuals recommencing; or ceasing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Trainees, Contract Training
Martha Crockett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (2015) is to protect the educational rights of students experiencing homelessness across the United States. Despite the coordinated efforts of State and Local Educational Agencies to carry out these mandates and ensure equitable…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Homeless People, High School Students, Graduation Rate
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