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Boughan, 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
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Boughan, 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
Boughan, 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 – 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 – 1991
In an effort to better market the college's programs and services, Prince George's Community College (PGCC), Maryland, 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 natural socioeconomic, cultural, and…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Course Selection (Students)
Boughan, Karl – 1997
To track student progress and develop a model of the total academic process at Prince George's Community College (PGCC), the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis acquired 5 years of background, behavioral, and outcome data for a cohort of first-time students entering the college. The academic process was broken down into three divisions:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Career Guidance, Cluster Analysis