Author : Davis Jenkins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Book Synopsis Community College Management Practices that Promote Student Success. CCRC Brief. Number 31 by : Davis Jenkins
Download or read book Community College Management Practices that Promote Student Success. CCRC Brief. Number 31 written by Davis Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief summarizes a study by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) of community college management practices that promote student success. This study addresses the limitations of previous research on the effectiveness of undergraduate institutions in several ways. It takes advantage of a rich set of longitudinal student unit record data to control for the individual characteristics of the students that the colleges serve. Because the study is based on the outcomes of both full-time and part-time students, CCRC's measure of institutional effectiveness is better suited to community colleges and their students than is the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) "student-right-to-know" measure commonly used by other studies. CCRC also measured student persistence in addition to completion and transfer, which is appropriate given that community college students often take a long time to complete their programs or to transfer. The sample is confined to all community colleges in a single state, thus eliminating the effects on institutional performance of variations in public policy and institutional mission, practice, and resources across states. While some previous studies examined only institutions considered to be high performers, CCRC directly compared colleges found to have a relatively high impact on the educational success of their students with colleges that have a low impact. Moreover, this study, unlike others, seeks to account for changes in colleges' policies and practices over time. (Contains 1 table.) [This study was conducted in partnership with the Florida Department of Education's Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Education.].