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Direct linkKelly Lack; Hannah Acheson-Field – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Many students who enter college do not finish, reflecting numerous academic, financial, and social barriers to postsecondary completion. Success Boston Coaching (SBC) provides students in the Greater Boston area with coaching during their first 2 years of college to help them overcome barriers to postsecondary completion and connect them to…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), College Students, Graduation, Graduation Rate
Maxime François; Kristof De Witte – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
The observed decline in academic performance among 15-year-old students, as reported by recent OECD-PISA surveys, alongside the democratisation of university admissions, points to a potential decrease in the marginal academic proficiency of incoming higher education students. Paradoxically, grades at the tertiary level have either remained stable…
Descriptors: Grade Inflation, Adolescents, COVID-19, Pandemics
Davide Malacrino; Samuel Nocito; Raffaele Saggio – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
This paper examines the impact of a reform aimed at expediting graduation times in Italian universities by reducing the number of exams students must pass to obtain a fixed number of credits. Using event-study estimates that leverage the reform's staggered implementation, we find that this policy change led to an increase in on-time graduation…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Time to Degree, College Students, Tests
Steve Wilson; Alexis McCullough-Wilson – Intercultural Education, 2024
Texas higher education institutions serve some of the most diverse student populations in U.S. institutions. However, graduation rates remain among the lowest in the United States, particularly for underrepresented minority students. Diverse faculty members who act as mentors have the potential to increase underrepresented minority students'…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Diversity (Faculty), Graduation Rate, Minority Group Students
Download full textKelly Young; Angelo Fynn – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2024
Psychological grit has gained substantial interest among traditional higher education practitioners, with many seeking the link between grit, academic performance and retention. The literature pertaining to distance education cohorts is scant, however, especially within the South African context, which holds unique challenges for accessing and…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), College Faculty, Distance Education, Academic Persistence
Albert Sánchez-Gelabert – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
The recent complexity of the university system, with diverse academic trajectories and varying socio-demographic characteristics of students, has led to increased access for historically underrepresented students. This has resulted in a rising number of adult learners, students with external responsibilities and individuals returning to education.…
Descriptors: Age, Employment, Graduation Rate, Foreign Countries
Michael W. Nelsen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Population dynamics modeling using stage-based transition matrices has been used in ecology for six decades. However, the data analysis method has never been used for students in higher education. This applied doctoral project used the principles of population dynamics to assess two student populations at an institution of higher education…
Descriptors: Intervention, Time Management, School Holding Power, Graduation Rate
Achmad Bisri; Supardi; Yayu Heryatun; Hunainah; Annisa Navira – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
In the educational landscape, educational data mining has emerged as an indispensable tool for institutions seeking to deliver exceptional and high-quality education. However, education data revealed suboptimal academic performance among a significant portion of the student population, which consequently resulted in delayed graduation. This…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Models, Academic Achievement, Evaluation Methods
Joanis, Steve; Burnley, James; Mohundro, J. D. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2022
This study extends the literature on education economics and student retention by examining social capital as a predictor of college graduation rates, student debt levels, and student loan default rates. Coleman's social capital theory is employed to understand how social influences can impact students through external social support (i.e., social…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Social Influences, College Students, Graduation Rate
David Mickey-Pabello – Research in Higher Education, 2024
The study investigates a tension between affirmative action scholars who hypothesize that affirmative action bans would increase underrepresented minority students' STEM college completions and scholars who have empirically estimated declines. It also questions results that that find no existence of a STEM penalty (compared to non-STEM) caused by…
Descriptors: College Students, Minority Group Students, STEM Education, Affirmative Action
Mary McDonald – Learning Assistance Review, 2023
This study is a follow-up to one on the pass rates of basic writers in a large, urban Midwestern university. Students who came for eight or more mandatory writing center tutorials for their basic writing course passed at a rate of 90% or higher each semester from 2013-2016. The current study examined their graduation rates. These students…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, College Students, Laboratories, Writing (Composition)
Sharp, Amanda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A collection of data points can show an abundance of information about a college student, telling a data-driven story about a student's past, current, and sometimes predicting future challenges at the university but some challenges may not be able to be indicated by data points alone. Challenges such as mental health, financial challenges,…
Descriptors: College Students, Referral, School Holding Power, Caseworker Approach
Sodip Roy; Santosh Kumar Behera – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2025
This study highlighted how teachers and students perceive the effects of the influx of Rohingya refugees on the teaching-learning environment of colleges for higher education in Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh. It revealed the issues of admission, the academic environment of the colleges, the attendance and performance of the students,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Refugees
Cyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Austin Slaughter; Noor Amanullah; Sukanya Barman; Cynthia Miller; Colleen Sommo; Erick Alonzo, Contributor; Osvaldo Avila, Contributor; Katie Beal, Contributor; Parker Cellura, Contributor; Ben Cohen, Contributor; Stanley Dai, Contributor; Hannah Dalporto, Contributor; Claudia Escobar, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Marco Lepe, Contributor; Tiffany Morton, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Vivianna Plancarte, Contributor; Alyssa Ratledge, Contributor; Elena Serna-Wallender, Contributor; Andrea Vasquez, Contributor; Rae Walker, Contributor; Michelle Ware, Contributor; Kayla Warner, Contributor; Melissa Wavelet, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor; Diane Wren, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admissions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain postsecondary degrees and achieve economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, Program Development, Costs
Angie Reay – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The study evaluated the relationship between female sophomore students' participation in campus recreational sports, retention at the university, and graduation rates. The purpose is to identify the potential influence of participation in recreational activities on persistence toward graduation. Alexander Astin's Theory of Student Involvement and…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Physical Recreation Programs, School Holding Power
