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Lynne Skyler Valdes – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship of age, gender, ethnicity, military experience, educational level, and the Criminal Justice Basic Abilities Test (CJBAT) score of recruits to discern if those factors are valid predictors of student success in a community college law enforcement academy. The relationship…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Law Enforcement, Academic Achievement, Influences
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Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca A. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2020
In this study on K-12 schools in the U.S. Florida Heartland, I take a QuantCrit approach to uncover how processes of data transformation, which I call 'racial re-formation', shape the utilization and reporting of racial and ethnic representations of students. To understand actual data use at schools, I apply QuantCrit's principles on how numbers…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Demography, Race, Ethnicity
MDC, 2018
This executive summary highlights research findings on outcomes in education, employment, and income in the southern United States region. Findings include: (1) As a whole, Southern schools, colleges, and universities perform better than ever, though they are in constant need of improvement to meet the demands of both democracy and a changing…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Demography, Academic Achievement, Income
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Hu, Shouping; Park, Toby J.; Woods, Chenoa S.; Tandberg, David A.; Richard, Keith; Hankerson, Dava – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2016
Developmental education courses in college--defined as classes taken in college that are below college level (Bautsch, 2013)--have come under increased scrutiny in recent years. Concerns focus on the large number of students enrolled in developmental education courses, the high cost of providing them, and the low success rates among students who…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Investigations
Kelley, Ginno Paoli – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the factors that have an effect on student scores on the Florida End-of-Course (EOC) Assessment in four secondary Algebra 1 classrooms using interactive whiteboard tools (IWTs). Four teachers and 335 students were observed in one public suburban school in central Florida during the second half of the spring term. Hierarchical…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Scores, Algebra, Secondary School Mathematics
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Delgado-Romero, Edward A.; Hernandez, Carlos; Montero, Helda – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2004
This article provides a case history of the development of Hispanic Student Organizations (HSO) by examining the contextual factors (e.g., demographic, historical, organizational) that impacted HSO development at the University of Florida from the 1970s to 2003. We trace the formation of HSO of cultural, professional, and Greek affiliations. We…
Descriptors: Student Organizations, Hispanic American Students, Program Development, Higher Education