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Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2017
Beginning at a local two-year college and then transferring to a four-year institution has been one of the most affordable ways for students to earn a bachelor's degree. Yet transfer pathways from two- to four-year institutions are often complex and confusing, and too many students who begin at a community college and aspire to earn a bachelor's…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Transfer Programs, Transfer Policy
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Dynarski, Susan M.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hyman, Joshua M. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
This article explores the promises and pitfalls of using National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) data to measure a variety of postsecondary outcomes. We first describe the history of the NSC, the basic structure of its data, and recent research interest in using NSC data. Second, using information from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Data, Outcomes of Education, Outcome Measures