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Download full textJenkins, Davis; Jaggars, Shanna Smith; Roksa, Josipa – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2009
This report summarizes key findings and recommendations from a Community College Research Center (CCRC) study designed to help community colleges develop strategies for improving the rate at which academically underprepared students take and pass initial college-level (or "gatekeeper") courses in math and English. CCRC conducted the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Probability, Remedial Instruction, Student Characteristics
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Direct linkJenkins, Davis – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
There has been little research on institutional effectiveness at community colleges. A key challenge is how to compare colleges that serve students with widely varying characteristics. Using transcript-level data on over 150,000 Florida community college students, we estimated the effect on the graduation, transfer, and persistence rates of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Effectiveness, Minority Groups, School Effectiveness
