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Erazo, Yvonne P. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The first year, first-semester community college students on academic probation and the factors affecting their academic success have been on the rise. As such, many students who are not making satisfactory academic progress (SAP) are at risk of losing their financial aid and, quite possibly, dropping out of school. The purpose of this study was…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Academic Probation, Academic Persistence
Goltra, Robert Joseph, III – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine if retention of first-year college students was influenced by specific variables and programs at one Midwest community college. The study was focused on responses from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) (Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2013) and peer mentoring…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Student Characteristics
Yeaton, William H.; Moss, Brian G. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2020
We aimed to compare the findings of three research designs to bracket effect estimates of a strongly worded warning letter delivered by certified mail to students on academic probation. We embedded an experiment within a regression discontinuity design and calculated two achievement estimates, average GPA and percentage of students remaining on…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Letters (Correspondence), Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average
Kilgore, Wendy; Crabtree, Emma; Sharp, Ken – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2019
AACRAO partnered with a large public university in the southwestern United States to examine a multi-year data set and to complete a student survey in order to gain insights into variables that contribute to excess credit accumulation at graduation. Until state legislatures began to decrease funding for public colleges and universities, excess…
Descriptors: College Credits, Undergraduate Students, Bachelors Degrees, Graduation Requirements
Finsel, Barry Alex – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Teacher quality is the most important school-based factor affecting student learning and achievement. In 2009, the Race to the Top (RttT) federal education initiative provided an opportunity for states to compete for federal grant resources to reform their public education systems, which included revamping teacher evaluation systems to improve…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation
Shannon T. Brady – ProQuest LLC, 2017
An important institutional and societal dilemma is how to notify people when they are not meeting performance standards, such as in placing people on a probationary status at school or work. A critical and underappreciated aspect of this dilemma, this dissertation suggests, is that people commonly understand themselves to be in relation with…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, College Students, Letters (Correspondence), Academic Achievement
Barouch-Gilbert, Abraham – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Student engagement can be thought as the intersection between student behaviors and institutional conditions (Kuh et al., 2007). Focusing on what the institution does, academic probation is a policy intended to enable student engagement (Arcand, 2013; Duffy, 2010; Houle, 2013; Holland, 2005). However, academic probation is also a classification…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Learner Engagement, College Students, Classification
Nichols, Malachi A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Across society, the consistent influx of students enrolling in higher education institutions without a comparable increase in degree attainment has produced a heightened awareness and a desire to identify the factors related to influencing college success. This dissertation aims to develop a greater understanding of three potentially relevant…
Descriptors: Influences, Mentors, Low Income Students, College Freshmen
Hensley, Lauren C.; Wolters, Christopher A.; Won, Sungjun; Brady, Anna C. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2018
Effective time management often undergirds students' success in college, and many postsecondary learning centers offer services to help students assess and improve this aspect of their learning skills. In the context of a college success course, we gathered insights from assignments to consider various facets of students' time-related behaviors…
Descriptors: Time Management, Academic Achievement, Academic Probation, Assignments
Schuman, Donna L.; Parekh, Rupal M.; Fields, Noelle L.; Woody, Deborah; Miller, Vivian J. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2021
Much research exists to support the positive effects of mentorship programs on improving grades and retention rates for MSW students. With the rapid growth in online MSW programs, the need to provide mentorship in electronic formats is also increasing. This retrospective longitudinal study examines the impact of an electronically delivered…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, First Generation College Students, Disproportionate Representation, Graduate Students
Connolly, Sara; Flynn, Ellen E.; Jemmott, Jill; Oestreicher, Edina – College Student Journal, 2017
In this study, we explored whether a uniquely designed First Year Experience (FYE) class for newly admitted at-risk college students would increase academic success; help students avoid academic probation; and increase retention for the following semester. Participants included 40 students (75% African Americans, 20% Hispanic Americans, and 5%…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, At Risk Students, Student Experience, Program Effectiveness
McDevitt, Daniel; Allen-Stuck, Kimberly – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2018
During the 21st century, more students have been enrolled in U.S. higher education than ever before. These individuals are entering postsecondary education from more diverse backgrounds and with a much broader range of overall goals, values, and skills than their peers before them. As first-year students begin to navigate higher education, they…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Student School Relationship, School Holding Power, Low Achievement
Ballmer, Noelle C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As the push towards lowering attrition of university students intensifies, particularly for first-time-in-college freshmen, administrators and campus leaders are increasingly designing and implementing co-curricular programs to support this population in order to positively impact student outcomes, namely, the grade point average, student…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, College Freshmen, Institutional Characteristics, Hispanic American Students
Norhailawati, M.; Handayani, Lina; Kalsum, R. H. U.; Saringat, Zainuri; Aidahani, A.; Bakri, S. H.; Prahmana, Rully Charitas Indra – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2019
Social networking web sites is not a new medium for users. The growth of this media helps students communicate and socialize with their friends or followers and used for education. The retention number of students is an issue or real problem in higher educational institutions since it is related to institution overall performance. This research…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, School Holding Power
Barouch-Gilbert, Abraham – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2016
This qualitative study explored the experiences of former probationary students to understand how their academic self-efficacy was enhanced. For this reason, I drew upon the self-efficacy theoretical framework. Narrative data were generated in interviews with 13 participants of a public research-intensive four-year college located in the…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Student Experience, Self Efficacy, College Students