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Worsham, Rachel E.; Whatley, Melissa; Loss, Jonathan E. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2021
Transfer articulation agreements are employed by institutions of higher education and state legislatures alike to improve transfer efficiency between two-year and four-year institutions. These agreements often aim both to increase transfer rates and baccalaureate degree completion and to decrease time to degree. Studies exploring the efficacy of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Institutional Cooperation, Two Year Colleges
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Queenan, Elisa P.; Street, Brian D. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2021
The cost of post-secondary education (PE) continues to increase, which has contributed to elevating federal loan demand, and as of the fourth quarter of 2020, equaling a debt of $1.56 trillion in the US. The purpose of this research was to compare two post-secondary institutions for specific alignment with the local labor market, examine…
Descriptors: Student Costs, Paying for College, Federal Aid, Debt (Financial)
Lee, S.; Ryu, M.; Shapiro, D. – National Student Clearinghouse, 2022
The Yearly Success and Progress Rates report goes beyond traditional student outcome measures by showing year-by-year rates of retention, persistence, transfer, completion and stop-out. It is designed to help institutions and states better identify and inform effective intervention points to increase student success. This report examines yearly…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Stopouts
Causey, J.; Huie, F.; Lang, R.; Ryu, M.; Shapiro, D. – National Student Clearinghouse, 2020
As the ninth in the "Completing College" series, the report presents the latest information on the six-year completion outcomes of the fall 2014 cohort of beginning college students, nationally and by state, and the eight-year completion outcomes of the fall 2012 cohort of beginning students, through June 2020. The national completion…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Graduation Rate, Time to Degree, Two Year College Students
Leibrandt, Sarah; Klein-Collins, Rebecca; Lane, Patrick – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2020
Many students -- as well as potential students -- have acquired a great deal of learning through their day-to-day lives outside of academia: knowledge acquired from work experience, on-the-job training, formal corporate training, military training, volunteer work, self-study, and a myriad of other extra-institutional learning opportunities…
Descriptors: College Students, Dislocated Workers, Prior Learning, College Credits
Oded Gurantz; Taylor Odle – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
We replicate and extend prior work on Florida's Bright Futures merit aid scholarship to consider its effect on college enrollment and degree completion. We estimate causal impacts using a regression discontinuity design to exploit SAT thresholds that strongly determine eligibility. We find no positive impacts on attendance or attainment, and…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, College Choice, Educational Attainment, State Programs
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Doman, Mark S. – College and University, 2017
Oakland University (OU) in Rochester, Michigan, was experiencing growing pains. The good news was that OU had experienced 23 years of continuous enrollment growth, with student enrollment exceeding 20,000 in 2015 for the first time ever. The downside was that various administrative processes throughout the university were straining to keep up. One…
Descriptors: Graduation Requirements, Higher Education, Enrollment, Registrars (School)
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Haarala-Muhonen, Anne; Ruohoniemi, Mirja; Parpala, Anna; Komulainen, Erkki; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
The relationship between study success and the nature of 550 first-year law students' study processes was investigated using a modified version of the Approaches to Learning and Studying Inventory. The students were classified into four study profiles according to their approaches to learning, indicating the nature of their study processes. In…
Descriptors: College Students, Legal Education (Professions), Study Habits, Academic Achievement
Fulton, Mary – Education Commission of the States, 2017
Guided pathways are emerging as a strategy to help students complete a credential in a timely manner by encouraging or requiring them to select a program, and develop a degree plan or map, on a specified timeline. At a minimum, institutions may ask students to identify a meta-major, which is a broad area of academic programs with related courses…
Descriptors: Graduation, Strategic Planning, Time to Degree, Majors (Students)
Seay, Darolyn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The research focused on clarifying the responsibility of the institution preparing these individuals including but not limited to: identifying dispositions of successful teachers, evaluating those dispositions in teacher education candidates going into education, developing dispositions standards, and evaluating candidate dispositions as they…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Teacher Education Programs, Student Teaching, Pretests Posttests
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Hutt, Stephen; Gardner, Margo; Duckworth, Angela L.; D'Mello, Sidney K. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
We explore generalizability and fairness across sociodemographic groups for predicting on-time college graduation using a national dataset of 41,359 college applications. Our features include sociodemographics, institutional graduation rates, academic achievement, standardized test scores, engagement in extracurricular activities, and work…
Descriptors: Generalization, Predictive Measurement, College Applicants, Time to Degree
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2019
The reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) provides a critical opportunity to eliminate race- and income-based disparities in college preparation, enrollment, persistence, and completion. The Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) believes that these disparities are caused, at least in part, by inequities at the high school level…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Readiness, Higher Education, Educational Legislation
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
This protocol guides the review of research that informs the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) intervention reports in the postsecondary Career and Technical Education (CTE) topic area. The review-specific protocol is used in conjunction with the "WWC Procedures and Standards Handbook" (version 4.0). WWC reviews in this topic area focus on…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Postsecondary Education, Intervention, Associate Degrees
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Lobo, Bento J.; Burke-Smalley, Lisa A. – Education Economics, 2018
We generate selection-adjusted NPV and IRR estimates for a bachelor's degree in the U.S. which account for time-to-graduation, debt financing and tuition levels. We find that a college degree is generally worthwhile, but the private value of the investment is a declining function of time-to-graduation. Selection-adjustments show that for students…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Bachelors Degrees, Tuition
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Killingsworth, Brenda L.; Mansaray, Mahmud A.; Rhodes, Len – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2018
Graduation efficiency is of top concern for institutions of higher education throughout the world. Increasingly, accountability metrics have come under scrutiny as policymakers seek to ensure public resources are efficiently used. Traditionally, higher education policymakers in the USA and Europe have used graduation rate as an accountability…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Higher Education, Accountability, Efficiency
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