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What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
"InsideTrack© Coaching" provides proactive, personalized coaching to help students identify and overcome both academic and nonacademic barriers to college persistence and graduation. This What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) report, part of the WWC's Supporting Postsecondary Success topic area, explores the effects of "InsideTrack©…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Intervention, Academic Persistence, Graduation
Stafford, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to determine if attaining the college readiness indicators adopted by the Kentucky Board of Education affect postsecondary outcomes. This study evaluated students' overall college credit attainment in the first year of college to determine if attaining the college readiness indicators affects student performance…
Descriptors: College Readiness, College Credits, Educational Attainment, College Freshmen
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Starkey, Kathryn – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2020
This study sought to uncover insight into dual enrollment funding policies and procedures for institutions and their school district partners. Through a social constructivist lens, this phenomenological research study investigated the experiences of first-year, full-time students that had participated in a regional comprehensive university in the…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Educational Finance, High School Students, College Credits
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Sun, Evelyn; Graves, Marcia L.; Oliver, David C. – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2020
This article reviews the state of Canada's undergraduate research opportunities (UROs) in the life sciences across various institutions. Survey data gathered in 2019 from 20 departments in 14 universities show that all responding departments offer well-established forms of research that include credit-based directed studies or honors-thesis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Scientific Research
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Adler, Katherine M. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2020
Carnegie Units (CU) quantify the time spent by students in and out of class in terms of content engagement. The rule states that for every one hour spent in a face-to-face setting, students spend an additional two hours of study time or engagement with the material). For colleges offering both online and residential courses with the same content,…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Time on Task, Learner Engagement, Online Courses
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Leaser, David; Jona, Kemi; Gallagher, Sean – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2020
This chapter explores the evolution of technology industry credentials in a rapidly changing digital skills landscape. The authors explore two interrelated case studies: the benefits of IBM's development of its own educational programs into digital badges, and the partnership between IBM and Northeastern University that articulates these industry…
Descriptors: Credentials, Employment Qualifications, Case Studies, Partnerships in Education
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2020
This document contains a model policy for the creation of a portfolio of options for accelerated college credit courses. This model legislation outlines a variety of accelerated college credit courses to be available within each public high school. This policy does not include the funding mechanism for accelerated college credit, but it is…
Descriptors: College Credits, High Schools, Public Schools, Acceleration (Education)
Bryce Davidson; Kristin Boynton; Blake Lannom – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While federal funding has provided financial benefits to assist the increasing number of veteran students in their academic pursuits, universities have not always been well-equipped to properly support this nontraditional demographic. For this study, the researchers utilized a mixed-methods approach to determine if the enrollment, retention, and…
Descriptors: Veterans Education, Nontraditional Students, Influences, Academic Achievement
Kristin Boynton; Blake Lannom; Bryce Davidson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While federal funding has provided financial benefits to assist the increasing number of veteran students in their academic pursuits, universities have not always been well-equipped to properly support this nontraditional demographic. For this study, the researchers utilized a mixed-methods approach to determine if the enrollment, retention, and…
Descriptors: Veterans Education, Nontraditional Students, Influences, Academic Achievement
Blake Lannom; Kristin Boynton; Bryce Davidson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While federal funding has provided financial benefits to assist the increasing number of veteran students in their academic pursuits, universities have not always been well-equipped to properly support this nontraditional demographic. For this study, the researchers utilized a mixed-methods approach to determine if the enrollment, retention, and…
Descriptors: Veterans Education, Nontraditional Students, Influences, Academic Achievement
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Kristin J. Davin; Kristen R. Cruz; Charlotte R. Hancock – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
Across the United States, students have the opportunity to earn a Seal of Biliteracy (SoBL) when they graduate from high school. Awarded to students who demonstrate proficiency in two or more languages, the SoBL originated to confront English-only ideologies and promote multilingualism. But critics question the impact of the policy on students and…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Certification, Bilingualism, High School Students
Wyoming Community College Commission, 2024
This report provides a look at the Fall 2023 term enrollment in categories such as student load, location and demographics of the community college student population. The content and format of this report have been developed through a collaborative effort between the Wyoming Community College Commission (WCCC), the Executive Council, and the Data…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Community College Students, Community Colleges, Geographic Location
Anna Espinoza – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With the 84th Legislature's House Bill 505 expansion of dual credit in Texas in fall 2015, students became eligible to begin coursework as early as ninth grade. Allowing students to begin college earlier in their high school journey triggered questions about their college and career readiness during transition to postsecondary coursework, which…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Credits, Advanced Placement, High School Students
Rodriguez, Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the association of both grit and self-efficacy to student outcomes at Dallas College, their association with each other, their combined consequence to student outcomes, and how these associations manifest across race, gender, and age. The literature gap in this review provides an overview of the research…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Resilience (Psychology), Race, Gender Differences
Jenifer K. Montag – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Issues regarding the provision of accommodations for students with disabilities exist in both traditional college environments and nonstandard settings such as medical and legal education settings. While the situation is less than optimal for disabled students seeking degrees in the general population, who are unfettered in their academic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Students with Disabilities, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
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