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Meiselman, Akiva Yonah; Schudde, Lauren – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
Developmental education (dev-ed) aims to help students acquire knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in college-level coursework. The traditional prerequisite approach to postsecondary dev-ed--where students take remedial courses that do not count toward a credential--appears to stymie progress toward a degree. At community colleges across the…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Remedial Mathematics, Community College Students, Outcomes of Education
Faith Fogelman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined the significance of selected independent variables such as continuous full-time attendance and resource utilization frequency, reflecting student integration and involvement, on the attainment of three academic benchmarks by the end of the fall 2020 semester among a subset of students at Kingsborough Community College (KCC) of…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Associate Degrees, Benchmarking, Attendance
Fili Michel – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Purpose. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of community college students who engaged in face-to-face and virtual academic counseling sessions in terms of which mode maximizes their potential for achieving their desired educational outcome. Methodology. This study used a phenomenological design to…
Descriptors: Community College Students, School Counseling, Online Systems, Synchronous Communication
James Newton Waugh – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to determine if and to what extent students' self-directed learning was related with their engagement and satisfaction at a community college located in the southeastern region of the United States. Situated learning theory and constructivism guided the study. The study was conducted during…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Independent Study, Learner Engagement, Student Satisfaction
Joe Wingate – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this non-experimental, quantitative, comparative study was to determine whether there were significant differences in fall-to-fall retention and graduation rates, between first-time, full-time students who engaged in at least one early post-secondary opportunity (EPSO) while in high school and those who did not. Archival data for…
Descriptors: Community College Students, School Holding Power, Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement
Shannon Bennett Hausinger – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Higher education persistence and retention rates have been scrutinized more than ever before, at both the state and national levels. Student success and completion rates are central to funding formulas, and this is specifically true for community colleges in Texas. This study examined the role of library instruction on community college student…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Information Literacy, English, English Curriculum
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John D. Holohan; Jacob P. DeBlois; Tom D. Brutsaert – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2024
Anaerobic capacity is an important determinant of swimming performance, and a feasible land-based test for measuring swim-specific anaerobic capacity is lacking. This study assessed the test-retest reliability of a swim-specific modification of the Wingate anaerobic capacity test: the WAnT-Swim. Ten competitive and fitness swimmers from the local…
Descriptors: Aquatic Sports, Test Reliability, College Athletics, Student Athletes
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Shannon Fleishman – Teachers College Record, 2024
Community college student success metrics have become increasingly synonymous with the completion rate and other key academic performance measures over the past quarter century. These measures, however, do not fully capture students' subjective interpretations of success, including their individual goals and aspirations. This article aims to…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Success, Coaching (Performance), Academic Achievement
Terrace Ewinghill – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This case study examines the transfer experiences and sense of belonging in STEM among historically marginalized and excluded students transitioning from Pima Community College to the University of Arizona. Utilizing mixed methods, survey data from two student cohorts are analyzed to gain insights into their transition process. The study…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Community College Students, College Transfer Students, Models
David B. Monaghan; Elizabeth A. Hawke – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
"Free college" programs are widespread in American higher education. They are discussed as addressing college access, affordability, inequality, and skills shortages. Many are last-dollar tuition guarantees restricted to use at single community colleges. Using student-level data spanning the transition to college, we investigate how two…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Tuition, Costs, Scholarships
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Melissa Whatley – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2024
This study adopts an equity-driven lens to focus on how international education serves to reproduce long-standing racial and economic hierarchies through a critical exploration of which students participate in two international education experiences: at-home internationalized coursework and study abroad. Drawing from student demographic data…
Descriptors: International Education, Enrollment, Community Colleges, Community College Students
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Brian Heseung Kim; Kelli A. Bird; Benjamin L. Castleman – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
Despite decades and hundreds of billions of dollars of federal and state investment in policies to promote postsecondary educational attainment as a key lever for increasing the economic mobility of lower income populations, research continues to show large and meaningful differences in the mid-career earnings of students from families in the…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Labor Market, Community College Students, Graduates
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Krista M. Soria; Stacey E. Vakanski; Trevor White; Ryan Arp – Community College Review, 2024
Objective: The purpose of this paper was to examine variables associated with food insecurity among community college caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We used data from a multi-institutional survey of 15,051 caregivers enrolled at 130 community colleges in 42 states in fall 2020. We used a logistic regression to examine whether…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Community Colleges, Caregivers
Sarah V. Diehl – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With tuition increasing at a faster rate than inflation, many college students depend on grants to access education. The largest of these, the federally funded Pell Grant, subsidizes over 30 billion a year worth of tuition for eligible students (Cardona, 2023) yet no longer meets its goal of covering 75% percent of tuition costs. While the…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Federal Aid, Grants, Eligibility
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Stephanie J. H. Frost; Guizella A. Rocabado; Justin M. Pratt; Daniel Cruz-Rami´rez de Arellano; Kimberly B. Fields; Jeffrey R. Raker – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Transfer students are a growing population at four-year higher education institutions, especially in STEM degree programs. Though much work has explored the broad transfer student experience, the experience of these students within specific courses is understudied. Furthermore, knowledge of how transfer students approach STEM courses and their…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community College Students, Organic Chemistry, Introductory Courses
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