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Craig Hansen; Melinda Lees – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2025
This support document accompanies the research report, "Understanding the Value of Pre-Apprenticeships," which examines the effect of pre-apprenticeship programs on apprenticeship completions and the value that both students and employers place on pre-apprenticeship programs in helping students to obtain successful apprenticeship…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Value Judgment, Student Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
Lelys Dinarte-Diaz; Maria Marta Ferreyra; Tatiana Melguizo; Angelica Maria Sanchez-Diaz – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs), lasting two or three years, capture about a quarter of higher education enrollment in the world and can play a key role enhancing workforce skills. In this paper, we estimate the program-level contribution of SCPs to student academic and labor market outcomes, and study how and why these contributions…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Length, Educational Quality, Correlation
Serena Canaan; Antoine Deeb; Pierre Mouganie – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of college advisor quality on student outcomes. To do so, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college. We find that higher advisor value-added (VA) substantially improves freshman year GPA, time to complete…
Descriptors: Faculty Advisers, Value Added Models, Outcomes of Education, Interpersonal Relationship
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Njiru, Samson Murithi; Karuku, Simon; Nyaga, Milcah – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
In recent decades, school performance ranking (or 'league table') have become a common feature of many education systems in the world. The ranking is usually published by government and news agencies in an attempt to measure and compare the relative performance of individual schools against a number of criteria, including academic performance.…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Competition, Tables (Data)
Houston Community College System, Office of Institutional Research, 2012
The Houston Community College (HCC) 2011-2012 Fact Book provides statistical information about the college district. It is important for the reader to be aware that data presented in this publication may differ slightly from statistics found in other district reports. Such variances may result from differences methodology including the source of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Tables (Data), Graphs, Academic Achievement
Houston Community College System, Office of Institutional Research, 2009
The Houston Community College (HCC) 2008-2009 Fact Book provides statistical information about the college district. It is important for the reader to be aware that data presented in this publication may differ slightly from statistics found in other district reports. Such variances may result from differences in the source of information used…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Tables (Data), Graphs, Academic Achievement