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Download full textEdmunds, Julie A.; Dudley, William N.; Hutchins, Bryan C.; Arshavsky, Nina; Lewis, Karla – Grantee Submission, 2019
The STEM Early College Expansion Project is an effort to integrate STEM strategies with the early college model and implement this in comprehensive high schools. This report summarizes findings from two separate quasi-experimental impact studies of the model in Michigan and Connecticut. Results from Michigan showed statistically significant…
Descriptors: High Schools, STEM Education, Program Effectiveness, Higher Education
Rosa, Karon J. – 1997
In response to increasing student attrition rates, Topeka Technical College, Kansas, a proprietary school run by Education America, Inc., adopted a commercial retention program that included faculty and staff training and a success course for students. An evaluation was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of the program, involving a review…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Dropout Rate, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedFidler, Paul P.; Moore, Philip S. – Journal of the Freshman Year Experience & Students in Transition, 1996
A study of eight successive freshman cohorts at the University of South Carolina found that both participating in a freshman orientation seminar and living on campus reduced freshman dropout rates. Students who both participated in the seminar and lived on campus had the lowest dropout rate, whereas those who did neither had the highest dropout…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attendance Patterns, College Freshmen, College Housing
