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Direct linkTaylor 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
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
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
Kristen M. Cummings; K. C. Deane; Brian P. McCall; Stephen L. DesJardins – Grantee Submission, 2022
Despite the robust literature on the effects of financial aid, the effects of financial aid loss remain largely understudied. We employ a regression discontinuity design, leveraging a minimum GPA scholarship renewal threshold, to examine the effect of losing state merit aid eligibility on college student stop-out, transfer, and bachelor's degree…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Student Financial Aid, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement
Kristen M. Cummings; K. C. Deane; Brian P. McCall; Stephen L. DesJardins – Journal of Higher Education, 2022
Despite the robust literature on the effects of financial aid, the effects of financial aid loss remain largely understudied. We employ a regression discontinuity design, leveraging a minimum GPA scholarship renewal threshold, to examine the effect of losing state merit aid eligibility on college student stop-out, transfer, and bachelor's degree…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Student Financial Aid, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement
Sibulkin, Amy E.; Butler, J. S. – Teaching of Psychology, 2019
After explicit instruction on how to give possible bidirectional (two-way) causality explanations for a correlation, 240 students from eight sections of social psychology and research methods courses wrote "reverse causality" explanations on various test questions, creating a total of 882 answers. Averaging across multiple graded…
Descriptors: Correlation, Causal Models, Research Methodology, Social Psychology
Terry, Catherine; Heitner, Keri L. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Higher education administrators lack strong understanding about using course evaluation data to make judgments and decisions. Using archival student course evaluation data from a pharmacy school, we examined (a) course evaluation instrument reliability and validity; (b) bivariate relationships between eight course rating items and the overall…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Satisfaction, Course Evaluation, College Students
Bos, Johannes M.; Graczewski, Cheryl; Dhillon, Sonica; Auchstetter, Amelia; Cassasanto-Ferro, Julia; Kitmitto, Sami – American Institutes for Research, 2022
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the implementation and impacts of the Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) model in its first year of implementation in 66 schools across the U.S. and to document scale-up progress during the Investing in Innovation (i3) grant period (2017-2021). The impact evaluation included 21,529 9th grade students…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 9, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
Cummings, Sherry M.; Chaffin, Kate M.; Milam, Allison – Journal of Social Work Education, 2019
The purpose of the current study was to compare 5 years of educational outcome data for online and face-to-face MSSW students (N=883) who graduated from University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Social Work. Students' knowledge (comprehensive exam scores, grade point averages), skills (field evaluation scores), and perception of their graduate…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Online Courses, Social Work, Counselor Training
Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2019
Academic mindset encompasses individuals' beliefs about the ways learning and intelligence work. These beliefs frame students' thinking, influence how they interpret events, and ultimately affect their success. This report provides results from the first large set of data on mindset in community colleges. These data suggest that understanding the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Attitudes
Rolfhus, Eric; House, Emily; Douglas, Brian; Leeds, Daniel – Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2017
Many studies show a strong link between earning a college degree and receiving higher wages (for example, Carnevale, Jayasundera, & Gulish, 2015). Consequently, a large body of research is published each year analyzing indicators of progress toward increased college enrollment and completion (for example, National Student Clearinghouse…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Enrollment, Public Colleges, Two Year Colleges
Herling, Patrick J.; Mohseni, B. Tanya; Hill, Derek C.; Chelf, Stacy; Rickert, Jeffrey A.; Leo, Jonathan T.; Langley, Natalie R. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2017
Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (LMU-DCOM) offers an optional three-week summer Anatomy Boot Camp course (ABC) to facilitate students' transition into medical school and promote retention of anatomy subject matter. The pre-matriculation program is a supplemental instruction course that utilizes a small group…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Medical Education, Medical Students, Summer Programs
Froggé, George M.; Woods, Kathryn H. – College Quarterly, 2018
This study examined academic characteristics and tendencies of first-generation and second-generation students. Students at a mid-sized state university in Tennessee were surveyed to determine their preferred learning format, number of hours enrolled, hours applied toward studying outside the classroom, hours working off-campus, and current GPA.…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, First Generation College Students, Student Surveys, Preferences
Allison, Aaron A.; Colson, Tori L. – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2017
This study examined the trends in enrollment numbers and academic quality of first-year Tennessee students on the merit-based portion of the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship (TELS) upon HBCU's and religiously focused institutions in Tennessee from 2005-2014. The researchers hypothesized that the merit-based portion of the TELS was a…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Competitive Selection, Admission (School), Black Colleges
