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Download full textWeiss, Michael; Brock, Thomas; Sommo, Colleen; Rudd, Timothy; Turner, Mary Clair – MDRC, 2011
Community colleges across the United States face a difficult challenge. On the one hand, they are "open access" institutions, with a mission to serve students from all backgrounds and at varying levels of college readiness. On the other hand, they must uphold high academic standards in order to maintain accreditation and prepare students…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Test Wiseness, College Students, Community Colleges
Direct linkHealy, Megan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
With a large global, national, state, and local drive for post-secondary credentials, higher education institutes are exploring new retention and graduation strategies to meet the needs of the employers and employees. Many students who are unprepared for college level work will enter a community college to take developmental courses. Developmental…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, College Mathematics, Community Colleges, Academic Persistence
Weiss, Michael; Brock, Thomas; Sommo, Colleen; Rudd, Timothy; Turner, Mary Clair – MDRC, 2011
Community colleges across the United States face a difficult challenge. On the one hand, they are "open access" institutions, with a mission to serve students from all backgrounds and at varying levels of college readiness. On the other hand, they must uphold high academic standards in order to maintain accreditation and prepare students…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Time Management, Demonstration Programs
Sanchez, Mark Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Historically, first-generation, low-income, and students with disabilities have had very high attrition rates at California Community Colleges and institutions of higher education in general. Based on figures compiled by the National Center for Educational Statistics in 2004, 4.5 million low-income, first-generation college students comprise…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Disabilities, Undergraduate Students, First Generation College Students
Peer reviewedAragon, Steven R. – Journal of American Indian Education, 2004
This study examined the learning and study practices of postsecondary American Indian/Alaska Native students attending community colleges in the southwest. Using a survey design, students completed the Kagan Matching Familiar Figures Test, the Schmeck, Ribich, and Ramanaiah Inventory of Learning Processes, and the Weinstein, Palmer, and Schulte…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Students, College Students, Study Skills
