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Melguizo, Tatiana; Ngo, Federick – Educational Researcher, 2020
This study explores the extent to which "college-ready" students, by high school standards, are assigned to remedial courses in college. We used a unique longitudinal data set that links high school and community college transcript data. Focusing on math, we developed a naming device--"inter-sector math misalignment" (ISMM)--to…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), College Readiness, High School Graduates, Community Colleges
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Dickinson, Emily R.; Adelson, Jill L. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2016
Practitioners and researchers interested in understanding student achievement, its predictors, and how it relates to other student outcomes are likely unaware of how the source information about achievement may offer subtly different pictures. This study applies multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) within a structural…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Factor Analysis, Multitrait Multimethod Techniques
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Carlson, Ronald; McChesney, Christopher – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The authors examined the state of United States student academic readiness for higher education from a global perspective utilizing data from the Organization of Economic and Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which tests over a half a million 15 year old student's skills and knowledge.…
Descriptors: College Readiness, College Preparation, Scores, Comparative Analysis