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Morote, Elsa Sofia; Singh, Nalini; Jeremie, Judith – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2022
This case study analyzed a unique doctoral program in education at Dowling College, Long Island, New York that had an 88% graduation rate within seven years that included 60% of students of color in contrast with doctoral graduation rates in the United States that are an average of 38% within seven years with only 24% students of color graduating.…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Schools of Education, Graduation Rate, Minority Group Students
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Richardson, Fathia; Harrington, Christine – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2022
Despite high levels of motivation, only 8% of single mothers who attend a community college will graduate (Cruse, Milli et al., 2019). As a component of this Dissertation in Practice, a systematic literature review was conducted to explore the reasons behind these unacceptably low success rates. Based on data from empathy interviews, peer-reviewed…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Mothers, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges
Legewie, Joscha; Farley, Chelsea – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2022
Educators and researchers have long sought to understand--and illuminate--factors outside of school that shape students' educational outcomes. In 2019, the Research Alliance published a policy brief ("Aggressive Policing and Academic Outcomes: Examining the Impact of Police "Surges" in NYC Students' Home Neighborhoods,"…
Descriptors: Police, Law Enforcement, Police School Relationship, Neighborhoods
Latisha M. Porter-Vaughn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Earning a degree in higher education provides additional employment choices for every college student. It is an important factor for sustaining future earnings and job stability. The general problem is deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals face higher unemployment and underemployment rates than hearing peers. The specific problem addressed was how…
Descriptors: College Students, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Career Readiness
Waller, David R. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Persistence and graduation rates continue to be important student success outcomes for engineering programs. In part, these outcomes reflect the effectiveness of the educational experience that has been delivered to the students. This educational experience is shaped by three main factors: 1) the organizational context, 2) the peer environment,…
Descriptors: College Students, Engineering Education, Academic Persistence, Organizational Culture
Solaris Coppedge Joye – ProQuest LLC, 2022
School systems across the country, like those in Oregon, continually attempt to improve their students' academic outcomes. Unfortunately, these costly efforts often fail to create lasting change. One factor in many of these failed improvement efforts is the lack of successfully implementing research-based practices (RBPs) at state and local…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, High Schools, Achievement Gap
Aliza Boritz – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The low six-year graduation rate among American college students has been the focus of higher education research and practice for decades. At the same time, the increase in the societal focus on weight status has coincided with an increase in the experience of weight bias and weightbased discrimination in educational settings. However, little…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Social Bias, College Students, Females
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Boumi, Shahab; Vela, Adan Ernesto – Education Sciences, 2020
American universities use a procedure based on a rolling six-year graduation rate to calculate statistics regarding their students' final educational outcomes (graduating or not graduating). As an alternative to the six-year graduation rate method, many studies have applied absorbing Markov chains for estimating graduation rates. In both cases, a…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Computation, Markov Processes, Accuracy
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Eckard, E. Woodrow – Research in Higher Education, 2020
The Graduation Success Rate (GSR) plays a critical role supporting the NCAA's Collegiate Model of amateur college athletics. The NCAA created the GSR to correct a statistical bias in the legally mandated Federal Graduation Rate (FGR) that causes it to underestimate rates. But the GSR's attempted correction causes it to overestimate rates. This…
Descriptors: College Students, College Athletics, Athletes, Graduation Rate
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2023
The Accountability Plan is an annual report that is closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This report enhances the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by fostering greater coordination between institutional administrators, University Boards of Trustees and the Board of Governors regarding…
Descriptors: Colleges, Accountability, Strategic Planning, Cooperation
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Modestino, Alicia Sasser; Paulsen, Richard – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
Recently there has been an emphasis on how time spent outside of the classroom can affect student outcomes, including high school graduation, with the hope of closing academic achievement gaps along socioeconomic and racial lines. This paper provides experimental evidence regarding a particular type of out-of-school activity--early work…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Youth Employment, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
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Leo, Aaron; Wilcox, Kristen C. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
Despite recent gains, Latinx students still lag behind other subgroups on measures of academic attainment. Explanations for this gap have ranged from pernicious deficit ideologies to deterministic frameworks which emphasize differences in human capital. While culturally responsive pedagogies are promising alternatives, there are few studies that…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Achievement Gap, Culturally Relevant Education, High School Students
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Skidmore, Susan Troncoso; Zientek, Linda Reichwein; Hsu, Hsien-Yuan; Edmonson, Stacey L. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2023
There is a multitude of studies that have examined graduation rates within the traditional 4- to 6-year time frame. What fails to be captured in these studies are students who are outside the 4- to 6-year time frame. In the present study, we sought to empirically explore a cohort of students who successfully completed their bachelor's degrees at a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Graduates, Graduation Rate, Profiles
Rossman, Daniel; Kurzweil, Martin; Lewis, Bethany – ITHAKA S+R, 2023
Monitoring Advising Analytics to Promote Success (MAAPS)is a multi-institutional project of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) initially funded and supported by a US Department of Education First in the World Grant to Georgia State, the lead UIA member on this project. MAAPS is a large-scale randomized-controlled trial designed to validate…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Low Income Students, First Generation College Students, College Students
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Ormond Simpson – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2023
Online higher education has been a success in part because it is less costly to students and governments than conventional education, so both students and governments receive higher returns on their investment than in conventional higher education. However, many online institutions appear to have considerably lower graduation rates than…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Costs, Outcomes of Education, Graduation Rate
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