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Jessica D. Huffman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Community Colleges have an open-door policy that publicly states all are welcome but after acceptance, the student encounters the hidden locked door of placement testing. For some students, placement testing is the key that unlocks the door and provides them access to their path toward their academic journey. But for most students, placement…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Student Placement, Placement Tests
Jeanne Novak; J. P. Oehrtman; Meg Vostal – Professional School Counseling, 2024
This study surveyed 225 school counselors to investigate the college and career readiness (CCR) supports they provide, with a focus on whether these supports vary based on students' disability status. The results reveal that school counselors deliver CCR supports related to resource coordination, life-readiness instruction, and career assessment…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Counselor Role, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Cecile K. Cunningham – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological study sought to investigate, analyze and describe the effects of early intervention on college readiness and the transition plan for high school students with visual disabilities transitioning into post-secondary education. Exploring how students with visual disabilities are perceived, treated, and the barriers they face in…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Bound Students, Early Intervention, College Readiness
Anthony Dissen; Daniel Fidalgo Tomé – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
First-generation college students often experience disproportionate levels of stress, anxiety, and an overall lack of preparation for undergraduate education in comparison to their multigenerational peers. This can include differing levels of financial support and literacy. These differences can have a significant impact on these students' levels…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, First Generation College Students, Work Study Programs, Student Welfare
Philadelphia Education Research Consortium, 2024
To meet statewide graduation requirements and receive a diploma, Pennsylvania high school students now need to demonstrate career or postsecondary preparedness through graduation requirements outlined in Pennsylvania's Act 158, which went into effect starting with the Class of 2023. Two of the five graduation pathways--the Keystone proficiency and…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, School Districts, High School Students, Career Readiness
Mark Duffy; Kri Burkander – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Drawing on qualitative data collected in a sample of colleges as part of a larger study on the implementation and impact of Assembly Bill 705 in California, this paper explores the rollout of corequisite reforms, focusing on the use of embedded tutors in introductory math and English courses as a strategy to meet to the needs of students. This…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Tutoring, Mathematics Instruction
Travis D. Hill; Yuyang Shen; Vicky Weiqing Ji; Jaret Hodges – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2025
This study investigated the Advanced Placement (AP) college readiness indicator among gifted secondary students in Texas during 2019-2021 as related to COVID-19. Utilizing publicly available administrative data from the Texas Education Agency and a hierarchical linear model, the paper identifies changes in Texas school districts' college readiness…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Academically Gifted, Secondary School Students, COVID-19
Matt Giani; Madison E. Andrews; Tasneem Sultana; Fortunato Medrano – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
This study examines College and Career Readiness (CCR) policy implementation through the lens of "decoupling." We investigate how high schools have jointly implemented Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Industry-Based Certifications (IBCs), and whether there is evidence of "curricular-credential decoupling" via…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Credentials, High Schools, Data
Jansen, Jade; Williams, Badrunessa; Latief, Azmatullah – International Journal of Higher Education, 2022
University success is impacted largely by the successful transition of students in their first year. This study's objective is to identify the motives, expectations and preparedness of first-year accounting students enrolled for an accounting degree at the University Of the Western Cape (UWC) for higher education. Students' motives, expectations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Accounting, Business Education
Alexa Allen; Brandon Conner; Brooke Gantman; Kendal Warner; Ranna Nash; Brady Janes; Megan Hellum; Cherie Singer – Discover Education, 2022
Background: The transition to medical school marks a very stressful time for matriculating students. Despite this challenging transition period, intellectually rigorous pre-matriculation programs are not a common component of the curriculum at many medical schools across the country. Students are often not given the opportunity to learn about the…
Descriptors: Medical Education, School Orientation, Experiential Learning, College Transfer Students
Lisa Stoll – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Students graduating from high school are entering college unprepared for college-level academic readiness expectations. High school dual enrollment programs were established throughout the country to help address the lack of college readiness skills among students entering college. Empirical literature presented in this study demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, College Readiness
Justin Arthur Borden – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the perspectives of academic advisors who are servicing the needs of students within the California community colleges participating in the Guided Pathways initiative. In addition, the study sought to provide a detailed understanding of the perceptions of (a) the academic advisor's role in…
Descriptors: Guided Pathways, Community Colleges, Academic Advising, Success
Tuere Anne Marshall – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The growing number of underprepared students entering two- and four-year colleges and universities is the number one challenge currently facing the field of higher education. According to the American Association of Community Colleges, 41% of all undergraduates and 39% of first-time freshman consider community college their "go-to"…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Strategies, Community Colleges, Success
Alice Kaye Deters – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation explores, in three papers, the experiences of college readiness practitioners (CRPs), or practitioners that support college readiness in out of school time spaces. In the first paper, I argue for a relational approach to college readiness grounded in the key tenets of relational sociology. I explain why a relational perspective…
Descriptors: College Readiness, College Students, Educational Sociology, Vignettes
Al-Mahadin, Salam – On the Horizon, 2023
Purpose: Heavily regulated higher education institutions may not be able to possess the autonomy to produce students who are both college and career ready. This paper aims to explore the role of the Ministry of Higher Education in Jordan in determining the content and direction of general education requirements, the historical roots of this type…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, General Education