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Federick Ngo; Dan Cullinan – MDRC, 2022
While most community colleges admit all students who apply for admission, the vast majority have required students to demonstrate specified levels of literacy and numeracy before they can take college-level courses. Typically, students have been assessed using a single placement test, such as the College Board's ACCUPLACER. Colleges--or sometimes…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Placement, School Readiness, Placement Tests
Masataka Umeda; Youngdeok Kim; Se-Woong Park; Eunhee Chung; Sarah L. Ullevig – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To examine food insecurity (FI) prevalence among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic (April 2021) using cross-sectional design, and the moderating role of the first-generation student status in the relationship between FI and grade point average (GPA). Participants: Three-hundred sixty students recruited mostly from…
Descriptors: Hunger, Food, Security (Psychology), Pandemics
Sahin, Adam; Wright, Kimberly B.; Waxman, Hersh C. – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
The purpose of this study is to investigate how Harmony Public Schools' (HPS) ' Class of 2024 high school students' current selves (high school experience, math and science efficacy, parent, and teacher expectations) affect to possible future selves (i.e. choosing a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics [STEM]-major in college). 1464…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, STEM Education, Intention, Majors (Students)
Rigsby, Terry – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact early college high school, and dual credit programs had on students grade point average, the number of college credits earned, persistence rates, and completion rates at a central Texas community college. The researcher used a non-experimental quantitative study, with secondary non-identifying…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate, Grade Point Average
Bickerstaff, Susan; Kopko, Elizabeth; Lewy, Erika B.; Raufman, Julia; Rutschow, Elizabeth Zachry – Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, 2021
Despite evidence suggesting that standardized tests are an imperfect measure of academic readiness, many community colleges across the country rely on them alone to determine student course placement. However, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced campuses to transition to remote operations in spring 2020, proctoring in-person placement tests became…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Student Placement, Alternative Assessment
Kerri Mikulik – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In response to the ban on affirmative action and the decrease in racial minority enrollment, the Texas legislature created the Texas Top 10% rule, which mandates public higher education institutions to admit undergraduate applicants who graduate in the top 10% of their high school class (Cortes & Friedson, 2014; Daugherty et al., 2014; Watkins…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Equal Education, Weighted Scores, Grade Point Average
David Christopher Averett – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The current mixed method study examined the impact of mentoring on a selected group of at risk students attending a north Texas high school. The study compared the group of mentored students to a group of students selected from the list of at risk students attending the same high school. The study examined the grade point average, attendance, and…
Descriptors: High School Students, At Risk Students, Potential Dropouts, Dropout Prevention
Thomas, Joy D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Student loan debt and institutional student loan cohort default rates (CDR) have been one of the main topics of interest in colleges and universities in the most recent years and the impact of CDR's have played a major role in the strategic planning efforts by higher education administrators. The costs for tuition, fees, room and board for…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Student Loan Programs, Loan Default, Undergraduate Students
Morrill, Sammi; Somers, Patricia A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
The Post-9/11 GI Bill provides unprecedented federal funding for veterans to attend post-secondary education and make the transition to the civilian workforce. However, there is little empirical research on recipients' educational outcomes, especially in community colleges. This study investigated the variables that influence completion and…
Descriptors: Veterans, Outcomes of Education, Federal Legislation, Community Colleges
Escaname, Rogelio; Flores, Luis; Flores, Sylvia; Fuentes, Jorge; Martinez, Alan Herrera; Garcia, Iraselia; Mora, Vanessa – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
The following research will assist in better understanding if gender, major, and technology use influences success rates among the Latino-ethnic undergraduate students in a Hispanic Serving Institution. The site chosen to be studied was located in a southern region of Texas and in a highly impoverished area. A previously administered instrument…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Colleges, Undergraduate Students
Mbaluka, Susan N.; Brand, Jay L.; Henry Saturne, Bordes – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2021
Academic performance of K-12 students in North America could be improved in that the majority of students produce undistinguished results in every international assessment of academic proficiency. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether student's self-discipline and parental involvement in student's academic activities have any impact…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Scores
Errisuriz, Vanessa L.; Villatoro, Alice P.; McDaniel, Marisol D. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2022
The transition to remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic is feared to have widened the achievement gap previously experienced by students from low socioeconomic and minority backgrounds. We utilized data from the "COVID-19 Texas College Student Experiences Survey" to assess the impact of the pandemic on Latinx students' (n = 231)…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Hispanic American Students, Student Experience
Patricia Benavides-Dominguez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Student enrollment at community colleges within the U.S. has remained flat or decreased for over a decade (AACC, 2019). Before COVID-19, community colleges had been experiencing a steady decline in enrollment for approximately ten years (Irwin et al., 2021). The purpose was to determine whether demographic, environmental, and academic variables…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment Management, Strategic Planning, School Holding Power
Tonya Kay Patterson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this sequential mixed methods study was to examine the relationship among student achievement factors, gifted and talented status and post-secondary readiness. The study included a review of archived data obtained from a large district in the southeastern region of Texas consisting of a purposeful sample of AP students' who took an…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academic Achievement, Gifted, Academically Gifted
Borman, Trisha H.; Bos, Hans; Park, So Jung; Auchstetter, Amelia – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
In this paper, we report results from a multisite, student-level randomized controlled trial that examined the impact of the Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) model on ninth-grade students. The BARR model is a comprehensive, strength-based approach that uses eight interlocking strategies to build intentional staff-to-staff, staff-to-student,…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Outcomes of Education, High School Students, Peer Relationship