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Miller, Cynthia; Headlam, Camielle; Manno, Michelle; Cullinan, Dan – MDRC, 2020
The nation's community colleges play a central role in producing a more educated workforce and promoting social mobility. They serve about 40 percent of all college students and, not surprisingly, they serve a disproportionate number of low-income and underrepresented students. But most students who enter these colleges do not graduate--only about…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Graduation Rate, Acceleration (Education)
Kern, Beth B.; Kingsbury, Tabitha – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Learning communities have been a part of the higher educational landscape since the 1980s. Despite their widespread use, research regarding their effectiveness with enhancing retention is sparse. This study describes a freshmen curricular learning community linking courses required for all business majors. Retention for students taking courses in…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, College Freshmen, Business Administration Education, Academic Persistence
Ferguson, Ronald; Huffman, Terry – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2018
Strides toward Native American self-governance and determination have led to significant initiatives designed to protect and preserve community traditional practice and participation. A specific focus of this paper examines potential factors that affect Native American students' post-college aspirations with respect to participation and support…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, College Students, Aspiration, Student Attitudes
Bensley, Roseanne R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Perhaps if we had a better understanding between the relationships among indicators of success in college, college student self-efficacy and participation in programs that help students succeed in college, we could improve success rates and persistence in post-secondary education. This mixed methods study sheds light on the relationship among…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Self Efficacy, Academic Persistence
Garcia, Maria Elena; Frunzi, Kay; Dean, Ceri B.; Flores, Nieves; Miller, Kirsten B. – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2016
The Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and the Community as Partners in Education is a four-part resource that brings together research, promising practices, and useful tools and resources to guide educators in strengthening partnerships with families and community members to support student learning. The toolkit defines family and…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Community Involvement, Partnerships in Education, Well Being
Garcia, Maria Elena; Frunzi, Kay; Dean, Ceri B.; Flores, Nieves; Miller, Kirsten B. – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2016
The Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and the Community as Partners in Education is a four-part resource that brings together research, promising practices, and useful tools and resources to guide educators in strengthening partnerships with families and community members to support student learning. The toolkit defines family and…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Community Involvement, Partnerships in Education, Well Being
Garcia, Maria Elena; Frunzi, Kay; Dean, Ceri B.; Flores, Nieves; Miller, Kirsten B. – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2016
The Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and the Community as Partners in Education is a four-part resource that brings together research, promising practices, and useful tools and resources to guide educators in strengthening partnerships with families and community members to support student learning. This toolkit defines family and…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Community Involvement, Partnerships in Education, Well Being
Ottley, Jennifer R.; Piasta, Shayne B.; Coogle, Christan Grygas; Spear, Caitlin F.; Rahn, Naomi L. – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: Bug-in-ear coaching implemented under highly controlled situations has a promising research base. Yet few researchers have examined its effects when implemented within less controlled environments using authentic professional development conditions. The purpose of this study was to examine the implementation and effects of…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Assistive Technology, Coaching (Performance), Community Organizations
Bickerstaff, Susan; Chavarín, Octaviano; Raufman, Julia – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2018
The Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the developer of the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways (DCMP) model, initiated the Mathematics Pathways to Completion (MPC) project to support each of six states in developing a broad statewide vision for mathematics pathways and a plan for institutional implementation of the DCMP…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Educational Change, Alignment (Education), State Policy
Garcia, Maria Elena; Frunzi, Kay; Dean, Ceri B.; Flores, Nieves; Miller, Kirsten B. – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2016
The Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and the Community as Partners in Education is a four-part resource that brings together research, promising practices, and useful tools and resources to guide educators in strengthening partnerships with families and community members to support student learning. The toolkit defines family and…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Community Involvement, Partnerships in Education, Well Being
Rodriguez Ott, Natassia; Staklis, Sandra; Boyette, Jonathan – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
Many community colleges consider non-academic supports as a way to improve student retention and achievement. Past studies on the effects of coaching, mentoring, advising, and other non-academic supports yielded evidence for the effectiveness of these interventions to promote student outcomes. In addition, some suggested that the effects were…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Program Effectiveness
Wright, Jonathan Clark – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The community college student population has been found to be less academically prepared than their four-year counterparts. This relatively at-risk group is argued to struggle with academic motivation in the college setting. Researchers studying student implicit theories of intelligence have found that students who struggle in academia may do so…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Motivation, Intervention
Hauk, Shandy; Matlen, Bryan – Grantee Submission, 2018
Most community college students in the U.S. must complete at least one developmental class, such as elementary algebra, before they can enroll in a college-level mathematics course. Increasingly common in such courses is the use of a web-based activity and testing system (WATS). This report presents initial results of a mixed-methods study of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Mathematics, Algebra
Litwok, Daniel; Gardiner, Karen – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2020
This report documents the impacts three years after random assignment for the Pathways to Healthcare program, operated by Pima Community College and Pima County One Stop in Tucson, Arizona. The program aimed to help low-income, low-skilled adults access and complete occupational training that could lead to increased employment and higher earnings.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Career Pathways, Allied Health Occupations Education, Adult Students
Hall, Mark Monroe – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of proactive student-success coaching, informed by predictive analytics, on student academic performance and persistence. Specifically, semester GPA and semester-to-semester student persistence were the investigated outcomes. Uniquely, the community college focused the intervention on only…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Coaching (Performance)