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Kristine C. Glasener – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explored the mathematical learning experiences of adult students enrolled in a community college developmental mathematics course during the Fall 2023 semester. The study's main objective was to identify the types of experiences that help adult students learn foundational mathematics. Another goal of the study was to provide empirical…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Arithmetic
VaNessa Patricia Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the experiences and outcomes of students who participated in remote summer bridge programs during the COVID-19 pandemic which was the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 academic years. The study aims to evaluate the impact of these programs on overall student persistence. Student persistence is the participants' attributions,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Summer Programs, Goal Orientation
Abrams, Annie – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
Every year, millions of students take Advanced Placement (AP) exams hoping to score enough points to earn college credit and save on their tuition bill. But are they getting a real college education? The College Board says that AP classes and exams make the AP program more accessible and represent a step forward for educational justice. But the…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Standardized Tests, High School Students, College Curriculum
Dougherty, Shaun M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
Policy makers have taken more interest in career and technical education (CTE) in recent years, but evidence regarding what kinds of programs produce the most important outcomes is still emerging. Shaun M. Dougherty summarizes what recent research tells us about the impact of these programs. Evidence has shown that CTE-dedicated schools, career…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Evidence Based Practice, Outcomes of Education, Career Readiness
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Meina Zhu; Cheng Wang – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2023
Given the increasing needs of employees with computational skills, understanding the core competencies of K-12 computer science (CS) education is vital. This phenomenological research aims to identify critical factors of CS education in K-12 schools from the perspectives and visions of CS faculties in higher education and teachers in K-12 schools.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Universities
Isabel Lainez Furutan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Researchers have found young children's academic skills and life outcomes are correlated to teachers' postsecondary education. Despite this, 60% of infant/toddler-PK4 teachers who work in center-based settings in the District of Columbia do not have postsecondary education beyond the high school level. The purpose of this basic qualitative study…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool Education, Elementary Education
Diana C. Zakhem – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Partnership was established in 2015 when the Arbor Glen School District, Brook Heights Community College, and Remarkable Outcomes rallied around their common priorities of increasing college matriculation rates in their community. The Partnership created programming that promotes the preparation and transition of students into postsecondary…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Access to Education, Higher Education, Partnerships in Education
Keith Hembree – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the relationships, if any, between Ready to Graduate indicator, average ACT scores, chronic absenteeism rates, and school counselor to student ratios in Tennessee's four urban counties surrounding Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, Tennessee. Only eight of Tennessee's 95 counties have a population that…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Counties, Graduation Rate, School Counseling
Shuntay Hunt Byrd – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem addressed in this study was the ineffectiveness of federally implemented college and career readiness programs to ensure that at-risk African American male students are adequately prepared for academic and career success. Academic performance for at-risk African American males in high schools is significantly lower than their peers. In…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Career Readiness, College Readiness, At Risk Students
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Alice Li – Grantee Submission, 2023
In 2017, the California State Legislature and governor adopted new law that fundamentally disrupted the long-held practice of remedial (or developmental) education in the California Community Colleges (CCCs). The law, Assembly Bill 705, was preceded by earlier reforms that changed how colleges could place students into remedial education, or basic…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Remedial Instruction, Educational Change
Espino, Maria Luz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Early college high schools (ECHS) were created to disrupt inequities in the secondary school systems by intentionally serving underserved students in higher education. Using Acevedo-Gil's (2017) College-"Concimiento" model, this qualitative "testimonio" study primarily focused on the narratives of 12 Latin* first-generation…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students, Low Income Students
Karen Danielle Goss – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to determine the degree of relationship between school protective factors, student internal assets, and College and Career Readiness Indicator outcomes. The population for this study included comprehensive, public high schools across California, including only schools that…
Descriptors: High School Students, Public Schools, Educational Environment, Career Readiness
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Mamba, Maria; Tamayao, Antonio; Vecaldo, Rudolf – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2020
The graduation of the first two batches of the Filipino senior high school (postsecondary) graduates calls for an examination of their college readiness since admission to tertiary education is one of the curricular exits of the K to 12 Program. Using the College Readiness Test (CRT) as a criterion-referenced measure, this study determined the…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Foreign Countries, High School Graduates, Criterion Referenced Tests
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Fox, Joanna; Balfanz, Robert – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: Over the past decade early warning systems which use predictive indicators to identify students in need of additional supports to stay on track to high school graduation have spread from a few schools to most states. There is now a growing interest in extending the utility of early warning systems from high school graduation to…
Descriptors: Identification, High School Graduates, Postsecondary Education, College Readiness
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Stahl, Norman A.; Armstrong, Sonya L.; King, James R.; Dyer, James – Journal of Developmental Education, 2020
This manuscript presents a study that was undertaken at three community college sites. The study was designed to build upon a prior study (Armstrong, Stahl, & Kantner, 2015a, 2015b, 2016) that aimed to answer the following general query: "What constitutes college-level text-readiness?" In the present study, that question was directly…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Vocational Education
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