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Direct linkTonya S. Knox – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated the consequences of students residing in the Foster Care System-FCS or State Custody. These challenges are exacerbated by the fact that attendance, GPA, and disciplinary infractions are adversely affected by students completing a successful academic school year. This research consisted of already existing data from the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Foster Care, Outcomes of Education, Attendance
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Download full textTaylor K. Odle; Lauren C. Russell – Grantee Submission, 2023
Reverse transfer associate degrees are credentials retroactively awarded to current bachelor's degree seekers, combining four-year credits with credits previously earned at a community college. Using administrative data from Tennessee, we use a difference-in-difference design to compare students before and after receipt of a reverse transfer…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, Associate Degrees, Outcomes of Education, Labor Market
Taylor K. Odle; Lauren C. Russell – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023
Reverse transfer associate degrees are credentials retroactively awarded to current bachelor's degree seekers, combining four-year credits with credits previously earned at a community college. Using administrative data from Tennessee, we use a difference-in-difference design to compare students before and after receipt of a reverse transfer…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, Associate Degrees, Labor Market, Grade Point Average
Vincent Okot – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This descriptive correlational study examined the predictive relationships between ACT composite scores, high school GPA, ACT testing attempts, and gender with teacher candidate's overall performance on the edTPA and each of the three edTPA instructional tasks (Task 1, Task 2, and Task 3). The edTPA is a portfolio-based subject-specific teaching…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, Student Teachers
Walter G. Ecton; Carolyn J. Heinrich; Celeste K. Carruthers – AERA Open, 2023
Although some students choose to work while enrolled in college, others may have no choice but to work, even if work may be detrimental to their chances of succeeding in college. Leveraging 17 years of statewide student-level records from Tennessee, the authors examine the relationship between working while enrolled and degree completion, time to…
Descriptors: Employment, College Students, Academic Achievement, Time to Degree
Bowman, Alayne J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While students have enrolled in college at increased rates since 1996, graduation rates have remained mostly stagnant (NCES, 2022). First-generation Appalachian students, specifically, had lower college completion rates but higher college enrollment rates than their peers (ARC, 2018). Since 2007, researchers have supported the use of non-cognitive…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Success, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate
Melissa D. Olfert; Rebecca L. Hagedorn-Hatfield; Bailey Houghtaling; Monica K. Esquivel; Lanae B. Hood; Lillian MacNell; Jessica Soldavini; Maureen Berner; Mateja R. Savoie Roskos; Melanie D. Hingle; Georgianna R. Mann; Julia F. Waity; Linda L. Knol; Jennifer Walsh; Valerie Kern-Lyons; Christopher Paul; Keith Pearson; Jeannine R. Goetz; Marsha Spence; Elizabeth Anderson-Steeves; Elizabeth D. Wall-Bassett; J. Porter Lillis; E. Brooke Kelly; Adam Hege; Mary Catherine Fontenot; Patricia Coleman – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objectives: To quantify the number and type of students failing to secure basic needs. Participants: Students attending 22 postsecondary schools in the United States in Fall 2019. Methods: The Adult Food Security Module and part of the #RealCollege Survey were used to measure food and housing insecurity, respectively. Logistic and linear…
Descriptors: College Students, Hunger, Housing, Homeless People
Jenna Hussey Glyder – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Three major pathways for teacher preparation and certification exist in the United States to recruit and train effective teachers, including traditional, alternative, and teacher residency programs. There is a growing but limited body of research on teacher effectiveness of educators who complete teacher residency programs and the factors of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Graduate Students, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Interns
Jacob Cutshall-Church – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this descriptive, quantitative study is to explore the matriculation rates for first-time, full-time freshmen who were previously enrolled in dual enrollment courses while in high school at one of the 13 public community colleges in Tennessee. Percentages, means, standard deviations, ranges, percentages, and proportions were used to…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Admission, College Freshmen, Community College Students
Ahmed White – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were achievement and behavior differences between three groups of students: (1) African American males from single-parent homes who had a mentor, (2) African American males from single-parent homes who did not have a mentor, and (3) African American males from a two-parent home that includes…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, One Parent Family, Mentors
Matthew Pryor Hunter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Postsecondary institutions are measured in part by their students' success and retention rates and seek to employ best practices with their students to prepare them for academic success. Federal, state, and local government programs have produced guidelines for preparing students who are academically ready to enter the workforce. Research findings…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Two Year Colleges, School Holding Power, Grade Point Average
Carol Lampkin; Haley Hallmark; Jesse Savage – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The researchers' mixed-method study provided an analysis of exam exemption policies. The researchers determined what impact exam exemptions have on high school students' attendance (days absent) and academic achievement (grade average) and analyzed perceptions surrounding exam exemptions as motivators. The researchers determined the difference…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Districts, Testing, Educational Policy
Stephanie West Wehrer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The era of accountability and a rise in standardized testing during recent years have emerged from policy reform initiatives designed to increase student performance. While the goal was to increase learning standards, it has not yielded the dramatic improvements expected. This study explored if there was a statistically significant difference in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Private Schools, Rural Schools, Christianity
Brittani Williams – Education Trust, 2024
For decades, college tuition costs have been skyrocketing, yet state financial aid has failed to meet the increasing economic needs of college students -- leaving many young people with the choice of bridging the financial gap by taking out student loans or not attending college at all. This pressing issue of rising college tuition is not just a…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Student Financial Aid, State Aid, Barriers
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2022
"A college degree can be a ticket out of poverty." Yet, only 22% of the country's Black population and 15% of the Hispanic population have a minimum of a bachelor's degree, compared with over one-half of Asians and about one-third of whites. Strong academic success in foundation courses and courses that fulfill general education…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Grade Point Average, Minority Group Students, College Students
