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Direct linkBoughan, Karl; Clagett, Craig – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2008
Over a two-year period beginning in March 2004, community colleges in Maryland developed a revised set of accountability indicators for a state-mandated Performance Accountability Report first required by a 1988 statute. A major innovation was a new model for assessing student degree progress. This article explains the development and components…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation, Institutional Characteristics, Accountability
PDF pending restorationBoughan, Karl – 1990
In early 1990, Prince George's Community College (PGCC), in response to declining enrollments, developed an affordable and locally effective geo-demographic cluster system for meeting the college's research and marketing needs. The system, dubbed "PG-TRAK," is based on a model developed 15 years ago as a corporate marketing tool, and involves…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Cluster Analysis, Community Characteristics, Community Colleges
Download full textBoughan, Karl – 1990
In an effort to better market the college's credit programs and services, Prince George's Community College (PGCC), Mayland, has employed its own tracking system which utilizes a socioeconomic segmentation of their serviceable target population. This approach utilizes U.S. Census data grouping neighborhoods into 24 natural socioeconomic, cultural…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Community Characteristics, Community Colleges, Credit Courses
Boughan, Karl – 1995
The second of three planned reports on 4-year outcomes for the 2,643 first-time students who entered Prince George's Community College (PGCC) in fall 1990, this document describes outcomes related to patterns of attendance and length of enrollment for various forms of academic achievement. Results of the analysis included the following: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Cohort Analysis, College Students
Boughan, Karl; Robinson, Ophelia – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2003
Over the decade of the 1990s, the student body of Prince George's Community College underwent dramatic shifts in its demographic makeup, as did the school's service area. This paper illustrates the importance, especially in these circumstances, of systematically comparing college enrollment trends with the demographic vectors of the surrounding…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Measurement Techniques, Enrollment Trends, Enrollment
Boughan, Karl; Clagett, Craig A. – 1995
A study was conducted by Prince George's Community College, in Maryland, to determine outcomes after 4 years for the 2,643 first-time students who entered the college in fall 1990. The analysis was based on an outcomes typology developed at the college which defines outcomes as award and transfer; transfer without an award; award without transfer;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cohort Analysis, Community Colleges, Longitudinal Studies
Boughan, Karl – 1998
This study used structural modeling methodologies to analyze student outcomes at Prince George's Community College (PGCC) in Largo, Maryland. Path analysis and cluster analysis were used to analyze data on 2,643 first-time entrants to PGCC in fall 1990 over the course of 6 years. Path analysis revealed the centrality of student attitude factors…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cluster Analysis, College Students, Community Colleges
Boughan, Karl – 1993
A study was conducted at Prince George's Community College (PGCC), in Maryland, to evaluate nursing student performance from point of admission to the taking of the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX). A sample of 853 students who enrolled in the nursing program entry course between fall 1986 and spring 1992 were surveyed to determine…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Longitudinal Studies
Boughan, Karl – 1993
PG-TRAK90 is a cluster-based geographic marketing system designed by Maryland's Prince George's Community College (PGCC) to maximize educational marketing objectives. To create it, United States Census Bureau files containing over 200 demographic, housing, and lifecycle variables for 172 tracts in Prince George County (PGC) were reformatted into…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cluster Analysis, Community Colleges, Enrollment Influences
Boughan, Karl – 1995
A study of final student academic outcomes was conducted at Prince George's Community College (PGCC), Maryland, using the lifestyle cluster of PG-TRAK90, the college's proprietary geo-demographic analysis system which targets new educational markets and tracks student needs and performance. Of the fall 1990, first-time-in-college cohort, 90%…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cohort Analysis, Community Colleges, Geographic Distribution
Boughan, Karl – 1996
A study was conducted at Prince George's Community College, in Maryland, to investigate the relatively low pass rates associated with General Chemistry 1 (CHM101), a lower-level science course that satisfies a general education requirement and serves as a prerequisite for Chemistry and Biology students. To identify correlates of student success,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Chemistry, Community Colleges
Boughan, Karl – 1992
The 1990 U.S. Census's discovery that Prince George's County in Maryland had become the nation's first basically middle-class, majority nonwhite county prompted Prince George's Community College (PGCC) to assess how well it was responding to the challenges of the new multiculturalism. In spring 1992, a racial climate attitude survey was developed…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employee Attitudes, Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Relations
Boughan, Karl – 1995
In an effort to determine which factors most consistently identified incoming at-risk students, Prince George's Community College (PGCC), in Maryland, conducted a longitudinal study of fall 1990 entering freshmen without previous college experience. After dividing the cohort into at-risk categories (e.g., age, study load, racial background,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, High Risk Students, Longitudinal Studies, Low Achievement
Boughan, Karl – 1992
In the wake of a shift in the racial composition of the student body at Prince George's Community College (PGCC), which was 62% "minority" by spring 1992, a thorough investigation of the college's racial climate was undertaken. One aspect of this investigation involved the distribution of a questionnaire to 7,000 students enrolled in…
Descriptors: Blacks, College Environment, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Boughan, Karl – 1996
At Prince George's Community College (PGCC), in Maryland, a comprehensive freshman academic monitoring database has been developed to follow the progress of peer groups of first-time students entering each fall through their sixth year of potential enrollment. Using the new database, as well as information from the Maryland Higher Education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attrition (Research Studies), Cohort Analysis, College Freshmen
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