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Decreasing Withdrawals within the Dual Enrollment Student Population at Southwestern Community College: The Role of Advising
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Amanda Crisley Everhart – ProQuest LLC, 2020
In selecting an area within education to focus on for my disquisition, I chose to focus on dual enrollment programs. Dual enrollment, a nationwide program allowing high school students to take college classes, prepares high school students for planning and organizing post-secondary goals such as obtaining a degree from a two or four-year higher…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Withdrawal (Education), Community Colleges, Academic Advising
Examining the Effects of Online Enrollment on Course Outcomes Using Weighting Procedures after Multiple Imputation on a State-Wide University System
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Smith, Nichole Danielle – ProQuest LLC, 2017
According to the few quasi-experimental studies examining course outcomes for community college (Xu & Jaggars, 2011a, 2011b, 2013, 2014) and for-profit students (Bettinger, Fox, Loeb, & Taylor, 2014), there is a significant penalty for online students. No comparable research has been conducted on public four-year university students to…
Descriptors: College Students, Enrollment, Online Courses, Withdrawal (Education)
A Relationship Study on Retention among Traditional and Non-Traditional Students in Select North Carolina Community Colleges
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Harpe, J. Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Student retention has become one of the most significant issues facing higher education. Countless hours and considerable amounts of money have been spent in an attempt to determine why some students leave college and while others persist. Previous retention studies have focused primarily on traditional students from four-year, residential…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Community Colleges, Nontraditional Students