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Lichtenberger, Eric J.; Dietrich, Cecile – Illinois Education Research Council, 2013
Rationale: Research examining the relationship between initial community college enrollment and bachelor's completion have shown mixed results with some studies indicating a clear penalty for community college enrollment and other studies showing no penalty, partly due to the point at which the given study began tracking the community college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment, Graduation, Bachelors Degrees
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Cappetta, Robert W.; Zollman, Alan – REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 2013
We measured student performance on the concept of limit by promoting reflection through four agents of change: instructor, peer, curriculum and individual. It is based on Piaget's four constructs of reflective abstraction: interiorization, coordination, encapsulation, and generalization, and includes the notion of reversal, as refined into a…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Calculus, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics
Harvard Family Research Project, 2011
Out-of-school time (OST) programs focused on older youth--specifically, youth in middle and high school--can help participants successfully navigate their adolescence and learn new skills well into their teens. OST programs can also help prepare older youth for a variety of new roles that they will assume as they enter college and the workforce.…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Mentors, After School Programs, Databases