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Perna, Laura W., Ed. – Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 2020
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each annual volume contains chapters that discuss salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries on topics pertaining to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students
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González Canché, Manuel S.; D'Amico, Mark M.; Rios-Aguilar, Cecilia; Salas, Spencer – Community College Enterprise, 2014
There is increasing concern that community college student success should not only consider how many students earn degrees, but also how and to what extent the degrees enhance individuals' professional livelihoods. Whether that happens depends on students' ability to make strategic and well-informed choices. Looking through the lens of a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Social Networks, Network Analysis
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Russell, Jennifer Lin; Jackson, Kara; Krumm, Andrew E.; Frank, Kenneth A. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2013
Design-Based Implementation Research is the process of engaging "learning scientists, policy researchers, and practitioners in a model of collaborative, iterative, and systematic research and development" designed to address persistent problems of teaching and learning. Addressing persistent problems of teaching and learning requires…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Instructional Design, Educational Research, Learning Theories
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Wurtz, Keith – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
The increasing demand of constituents to conduct analyses in order to help inform the decision-making process has led to the need for Institutional Research (IR) guidelines for community college educators. One method of maintaining the quality of research conducted by IR staff is to include professional development about ethics. This article…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Research, Evaluators, Experiments
Rosario, Victoria C. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research study investigated the technological perceptions and expectations of community college students, faculty, administrators, and Information Technology (IT) staff. The theoretical framework is based upon two assumptions on the process of technological innovation: it can be explained by diffusion of adoption theory, and by studying the…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Attitudes
Zeidenberg, Matthew; Scott, Marc – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
Community college students typically have access to a large selection of courses and programs, and therefore the student transcripts at any one college or college system tend to be very diverse. As a result, it is difficult for faculty, administrators, and researchers to understand the course-taking patterns of students in order to determine what…
Descriptors: College Students, Technical Institutes, Community Colleges, Course Selection (Students)
Morest, Vanessa Smith; Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2007
This report presents findings from a study conducted by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) on how well prepared today's community colleges are in moving toward the greater use of data and research to improve student success. Data for the study were drawn from two major sources: first, an e-mail survey of college administrators…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Community Colleges, Research Methodology, Surveys