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Direct linkKevin Wenger; Jillian Kinzie – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2025
First-year seminars (FYS) are well-tested and trusted programs to facilitate students' transition to college. This study adds to the body of evidence about the value of seminars through analysis of a large multi-institution dataset and documentation of the positive association between participation in a first-year seminar and student engagement in…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Student Adjustment, College Freshmen, Program Effectiveness
Megan Reister; Ann Dulany; Rebecca Rook – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2025
To build connections among students studying education, the researchers implemented a First-Year Experiences (FYE) peer mentorship program with embedded professional development workshops called Teachable Moments for first-year students. This innovative approach to meeting the needs of first-year students was measured through a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, College Freshmen, Mentors, Academic Persistence
Kristi L. Bitz; Rodney Hair – Teaching of Psychology, 2025
Background: While capstone courses are popular among psychology programs, the capstone course design at a small private Midwestern university seems less conventional. Objective: Along with meeting five course objectives, the course addresses understanding vocation, identifying academic and career strengths and weaknesses, identifying talents and…
Descriptors: Capstone Experiences, Psychology, Student Attitudes, Student Development
Santiago, Ken – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Accelerating the Boys and Girls Clubs to continued learning and growing in their practices is one key to transforming the young boys and girls which they serve. The purpose of this study was to examine the affects that the Boys and Girls Clubs have had on the membership and to utilize the information learned to endorse the Clubs work going…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Program Effectiveness, Interpersonal Competence, Self Control
Download full textAlbert, Melissa A.; Way, Jason D.; Moore, Joann; Walton, Kate E.; Casillas, Alex; McCormick, Norma Ortiz – ACT, Inc., 2020
Learners from underserved backgrounds tend to show lower levels of college readiness (ACT, 2016a; ACT, 2018). In part to address these disparities, the authors investigated growth in social and emotional (SE) skills in a cohort of largely Hispanic, high-poverty students who participated in GEAR UP. GEAR UP is a discretionary federal grant program…
Descriptors: Intervention, College Readiness, Hispanic American Students, Poverty
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
Kawana Johnson – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Mentored experiences have been well-documented in literature as an effective intervention to increase persistence and diversity in STEM for minoritized groups. However, an in-depth understanding of the mentored experiences of Black undergraduate students in a national laboratory environment is limited. In this study, the author used qualitative…
Descriptors: African American Students, STEM Education, Mentors, Student Research
Rowe, Tara; Charles, Tyler; DuBose, Henry – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2020
The growing number of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in postsecondary education requires accommodations beyond typically provided supports in order to ensure success. However, most campuses lack support services provided in addition to general accommodations. A supplemental support program within a public university was developed to…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, College Students
Timothy D. Gwillim – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Short term study abroad use by community colleges has been on the rise. This study looks at the effectiveness of short term study abroad programs at a community college. The study examines the use of these programs in promoting student retention, completion, and growth in intercultural competence. By looking at student retention and completion…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Minicourses, Academic Persistence, Time to Degree
Margarita Otero-Díaz; Brandilynn Villarreal; Rafael Cuevas-Uribe; Jose Marin Jarrin; Maria I. Iturbide – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2025
Universities continue to see equity gaps in retention and graduation rates for Latinx students. To enhance Latinx student success, a team of Latinx faculty at a HSI developed innovative programming for educators centered on creating culturally sustaining educational spaces for Latinx students. Creando Conciencia is an ESCALA Educational Services,…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate
Jiaoyue Lyu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In the United States, language education programs are increasingly popular and have expanded considerably in recent years. At the same time, very little data exists on the leadership practices that have guided the most successful language education programs (Forman, 2015; Hutton, 2018; Rocque et al., 2016). This study filled that gap by exploring…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Transformational Leadership, Chinese
Angus Hughes; Zhihui Zhang; Tabatha Griffin – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2025
This research explored the relationship between foundation skill learners' characteristics and outcomes, and how foundation skills programs contribute to learners' VET outcomes, employment and further study. Through an analysis of individual student pathways, the research examined the student and program characteristics indicative of completing a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Career and Technical Education, Skill Development
Arendale, David R., Comp. – Online Submission, 2022
This updated 2022 annotated bibliography reviews nine postsecondary peer cooperative learning programs that have been implemented nationally and internationally to increase student achievement. A number of the publications report how they adapted their programs due to COVID-19 restrictions and online delivery platforms. They have been so satisfied…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Peer Teaching, Cooperative Learning, Academic Achievement
Megan Patberg Morin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Undergraduate research experiences (URE) can help retain and support STEM undergraduate program persistence for underrepresented populations, women, and nontraditional STEM students, such as community college students. Understanding their primary discipline, obtaining critical thinking skills, improving their communication skills, gaining…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Engineering Education, Community College Students, Academic Persistence
Jodie Delsol – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This action research study aimed to investigate and identify ways to increase persistence among underrepresented minority (URM) students who were pursuing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors at a community college. Retaining STEM students is a concern for student success in community colleges, especially for underrepresented…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community College Students, STEM Education, Student Development
