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Book Synopsis Exploring Student Perceptions of College Readiness by : Sivan Lipman
Download or read book Exploring Student Perceptions of College Readiness written by Sivan Lipman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to examine the processes that help develop psychosocial skills for college readiness. Psychosocial skills are defined as: intrinsic motivation, non-cognitive skills, and resiliency. The structural framework, modified from that of Conley (2008), identifies major contributing factors in student readiness for college. In addition, the belief that these factors are most effective when they work together (Epstein, 2011), and rooted in the foundation of behavioral psychology, and the belief that psychosocial skills can be developed. This phenomenological, mixed methods, study examined the impact that parents and the school have on the perceptions of student psychosocial readiness for college and found that consciousness raising, practice, and the development of internal meaning for the importance of psychosocial skill development is critical to the successful transition into a four-year university. The study was able to identify processes currently in place that impact psychosocial readiness for college, providing an opportunity to identify potential changes in practice. Improving parent communication regarding the importance of developing psychosocial skills in their students, and best practices, including more intentional programming where students are expected to interact with varying communities, to practice to develop some of the expressed psychosocial skills, arming students with tools that could better prepare students for the transition into college.
Book Synopsis Impact of the Advancement Via Individual Determination Program on Students' Perceptions of College Readiness by : Ronda Kouba
Download or read book Impact of the Advancement Via Individual Determination Program on Students' Perceptions of College Readiness written by Ronda Kouba and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For high school students who are deemed at risk, the aspirations of attending college can be met with challenges that can leave them easily defeated. The necessary skills and dispositions needed to be successful at the college level are purposely provided through the nationally acclaimed program Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID). This qualitative study investigated the impact of the program on student perceptions of college readiness through the actual voices of the students as participants in the AVID program, and then as participants in the college/university setting. Particular attention was given to those students characterized as first generation college students. The study also filled a specific need at the high school where the research was conducted to bring the school in line with educational practice with regard to college readiness, especially with the growing population of first generation college students. Grounded theory was utilized through an empirical analysis of qualitative data sources. Focus group and individual interviews were conducted with AVID participants and administrators to determine the impact of the AVID program on students' perceptions of college readiness. These interviews, along with the researcher's reflective journal, allowed for the triangulation of data regarding perceptions of college readiness academically, emotionally, and personally. Recommendations were provided for educators as they focus on preparing students to be college ready as they enter the collegiate setting upon graduation from high school.
Book Synopsis Student Perceptions of Career and Technical Education Programs and College Readiness in California, Illinois, and Texas by : Carrmila Faye Young
Download or read book Student Perceptions of Career and Technical Education Programs and College Readiness in California, Illinois, and Texas written by Carrmila Faye Young and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As K-12 systems throughout the country work to create Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs that will provide students with post-secondary skills and competencies to succeed in the workforce, many CTE students may be inadvertently denied the opportunity to also become college ready upon graduation. Focusing on high school CTE coursework deemed to be less academically rigorous, can limit the college readiness rates for CTE concentrators both in admittance and success thereafter. Utilizing Dewey and Prosser’s historical perspectives related to vocational education, current college and career readiness research, and nascent literature on college and career ready indicators, the purpose of this explanatory qualitative case study was to try to understand how adult aged students who graduated from the CTE course of study perceived their preparation for college and career readiness. This study had a sample size of three subjects per state (California, Illinois, and Texas) for a total of nine adult participants who graduated from high school and concentrated in CTE by completing two or more courses in a career or technical education pathway. Using surveys and interviews, the design of this study captured vivid details through the words and actions of the participants to explore and explain the relationship between aspects of their scholastic experiences and their perceived readiness. The findings revealed that that where participants went to school, the quality of the CTE program, and expertise of the adults involved made the greatest differences in participant perceptions of readiness-- superseding all other factors including geography, race, age, and gender. The findings from this study may have significant academic, social, and systemic implications as the belief that college and career readiness are one in the same prevails when driven by quantitative data points. The voices from the field are telling us otherwise.
Book Synopsis Student Perceptions Regarding the Influence of Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) on College Readiness by : Jessica L. Kiernan
Download or read book Student Perceptions Regarding the Influence of Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) on College Readiness written by Jessica L. Kiernan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Becoming a Student-Ready College by : Tia Brown McNair
Download or read book Becoming a Student-Ready College written by Tia Brown McNair and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boost student success by reversing your perspective on college readiness The national conversation asking "Are students college-ready?" concentrates on numerous factors that are beyond higher education's control. Becoming a Student-Ready College flips the college readiness conversation to provide a new perspective on creating institutional value and facilitating student success. Instead of focusing on student preparedness for college (or lack thereof), this book asks the more pragmatic question of what are colleges and universities doing to prepare for the students who are entering their institutions? What must change in an institution's policies, practices, and culture in order to be student-ready? Clear and concise, this book is packed with insightful discussion and practical strategies for achieving your ambitious student success goals. These ideas for redesigning practices and policies provide more than food for thought—they offer a real-world framework for real institutional change. You'll learn: How educators can acknowledge their own biases and assumptions about underserved students in order to allow for change New ways to advance student learning and success How to develop and value student assets and social capital Strategies and approaches for creating a new student-focused culture of leadership at every level To truly become student-ready, educators must make difficult decisions, face the pressures of accountability, and address their preconceived notions about student success head-on. Becoming a Student-Ready College provides a reality check based on today's higher education environment.
Book Synopsis The Problem of College Readiness by : William G. Tierney
Download or read book The Problem of College Readiness written by William G. Tierney and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though more students are entering college, many drop out, especially those who are low income and/or of color. To address this problem, educational stakeholders have focused on the concept of "college readiness," or the preparation a student needs to succeed in college. However, what it means to be college ready and how to help more students become ready are questions without clear answers. By way of historical and contemporary analyses, this book uses California as a case study to demonstrate how the state has endeavored to make postsecondary opportunity accessible for all students. The contributors also explore the challenges that remain and address what states and schools can do to improve college readiness and completion.
Book Synopsis The Perception of Career Readiness Skill Development in College Seniors by :
Download or read book The Perception of Career Readiness Skill Development in College Seniors written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As universities and colleges around the world strive to provide rigorous academic instruction, they are also preparing their students to enter into the world of work. According to research conducted by American College Test (ACT), Americans value education because they believe it will provide economic benefit to those that participate in the system. By the year 2018, the majority of newly created jobs in the United States of America (U.S.) are likely to require a college degree (Matter, Burrus, Camara, O'Connor, Hansen, Gambrell, Casillas, & Bobek, 2014). This fact suggests that in order for students to be prepared to enter the world of work they must possess the competencies and skills needed to be successful. This study explores student's perceptions of their career readiness development in relation to their engagement with career resources and programming. A mixed methods approach was used to assess undergraduate seniors at a four-year public institution. This study provides insight regarding which of the eight competencies as defined by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) students feel they have the most development in preparation for their future career paths. The findings reveled that students that utilized career services during their senior year felt more confident in their career readiness skill development. This survey has important implications for career offices that want to assess programming and services to develop a competency-based framework.
Book Synopsis Exploring Student Perceptions of First Year in College by : Jessia Bettencourt Wojciechowski
Download or read book Exploring Student Perceptions of First Year in College written by Jessia Bettencourt Wojciechowski and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mixed methods study evaluated the perceptions, performance and retention of students participating in the inaugural year of a living-learning program designed to support the needs of underprepared students of color. A survey was distributed to 1,004 FTFT students (N = 278) taking first-year English followed by a focus group (N = 9) to further understand program participant experiences. Institutional data were used to analyze student performance and retention across three comparison groups. This student support program was designed to close the performance and persistence gap for underprepared students of color living in residence at a medium sized university in the California Central Valley. Program participants reported frequent use of professional academic advising and major advising, which had a positive effect on student performance. Utilization of support services, including the writing center, disability resources, peer mentoring, was high among program participants, a positive outcome from program participation. Results of the study indicate the program was successful in closing the gap between students participating in the program and comparable students not participating in the program. Students participating in the program reported higher rates of satisfaction with their support program compared to other students participating in programs without a residential component. Findings indicate faculty mentoring had a positive outcome on student success. Understanding program design and outcomes can inform practitioners of effective Student Affairs and Academic Affairs partnerships with positive impacts to students’ performance and decisions to persist.
Book Synopsis College and Career Ready? by : Deanna D. Schultz
Download or read book College and Career Ready? written by Deanna D. Schultz and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concern about college and career readiness has been expressed in both the business and education arenas. Employers are calling for entry-level employees with basic academic skills and educators are being held accountable for student achievement in academic areas similar to those required by employers. In this environment, WorkKeys has emerged as a set of assessments that could respond to the needs of both employers and educators and serve as an indicator to test takers of their readiness for further education or a career. In Alaska, state policymakers selected WorkKeys for use with high school juniors in an effort to measure both college and career readiness, and statewide testing was implemented in the fall of 2010. While past studies involving WorkKeys have focused on assessment results related to workforce development, academic indicators, or demographic variables, the purpose of this study was to describe the college and career readiness perceptions of high school juniors related to the WorkKeys Reading for Information, Locating Information, and Applied Mathematics assessments. A survey administered to 178 urban high school juniors at the time they received their WorkKeys results gathered student perceptions of the WorkKeys assessments in general as well as perceptions of college and career readiness. The key findings of this study were that student perceptions of college and career readiness were much higher than the results of the assessments indicated, and students found value in using WorkKeys results for college and career planning. This suggested the assessment results would be useful in career development interventions with students. This was the first year of mandatory WorkKeys assessments in the state and further study is recommended to gather rural student perceptions, further explore factors that students believe make the assessments useful, and determine the influence of the assessments and related interventions on academic self-efficacy.
Book Synopsis AVID Participation for College Readiness and Success by : Jennifer Lucia Lawson
Download or read book AVID Participation for College Readiness and Success written by Jennifer Lucia Lawson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the nation, students are exiting high schools and headed to college underprepared and ill-equipped to handle the expectations and system of higher education. This lack of college readiness can be related to a limited perspective of the rigorous academic expectations or a lack in the social capital, cultural capital, or habitus necessary for success in college. While there are numerous programs available to assist students with this educational transition, both in secondary education and on the college campuses themselves, the research supporting their effectiveness is limited. This study focuses on the perceived college readiness that AVID provided former students in the areas of academic expectations, social capital, cultural capital, and habitus. Through the mixed-methods design, this study presents both a breadth of student perceptions regarding their experiences at one Northern California high school, as well as student voices who share specific ways in which the AVID program provided college readiness.
Book Synopsis The Early College High School and Student Self-perceptions of College Readiness by : Tina L. Farrell
Download or read book The Early College High School and Student Self-perceptions of College Readiness written by Tina L. Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis College and Career Readiness by : Sarah Coyne
Download or read book College and Career Readiness written by Sarah Coyne and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to gain information from college students about their college and career readiness experiences in high school and whether those activities and/or programs provided them with the college and career readiness skills necessary to be successful in their first year in postsecondary institutions.
Book Synopsis Student Standpoints about Access Programs in Higher Education by : Dana B. Lundell
Download or read book Student Standpoints about Access Programs in Higher Education written by Dana B. Lundell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis College Knowledge by : David T. Conley
Download or read book College Knowledge written by David T. Conley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although more and more students have the test scores and transcripts to get into college, far too many are struggling once they get there. These students are surprised to find that college coursework demands so much more of them than high school. For the first time, they are asked to think deeply, write extensively, document assertions, solve non-routine problems, apply concepts, and accept unvarnished critiques of their work. College Knowledge confronts this problem by looking at the disconnect between what high schools do and what colleges expect and proposes a solution by identifying what students need to know and be able to do in order to succeed. The book is based on an extensive three-year project sponsored by the Association of American Universities in partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts. This landmark research identified what it takes to succeed in entry-level university courses. Based on the project's findings - and interviews with students, faculty, and staff - this groundbreaking book delineates the cognitive skills and subject area knowledge that college-bound students need to master in order to succeed in today's colleges and universities. These Standards for Success cover the major subject areas of English, mathematics, natural sciences, social sciences, second languages, and the arts.
Book Synopsis Preparing Students for College and Careers by : Katie Larsen McClarty
Download or read book Preparing Students for College and Careers written by Katie Larsen McClarty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preparing Students for College and Careers addresses measurement and research issues related to college and career readiness. Educational reform efforts across the United States have increasingly taken aim at measuring and improving postsecondary readiness. These initiatives include developing new content standards, redesigning assessments and performance levels, legislating new developmental education policy for colleges and universities, and highlighting gaps between graduates’ skills and employers’ needs. In this comprehensive book, scholarship from leading experts on each of these topics is collected for assessment professionals and for education researchers interested in this new area of focus. Cross-disciplinary chapters cover the current state of research, best practices, leading interventions, and a variety of measurement concepts, including construct definitions, assessments, performance levels, score interpretations, and test uses.
Book Synopsis Readiness Realities by : Pamela W. Hollander
Download or read book Readiness Realities written by Pamela W. Hollander and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new U.S. national standards movement has pushed us at “warp speed” from Common Core curriculum standards to updated assessments for college readiness, but we have not fully examined what it means to be college ready. Why is it that roughly half of all high school students need remedial classes before being considered ready for college-level work? Current public policies aim to eliminate the need for remedial college classes by ratcheting up instruction and expectations at the K-12 level, but if we do not find out what these students are missing, how can we expect to be successful? For higher education scholars and practitioners and those generally interested in the future of college, this book helps tell a novel story about the transition to college, from the perspective of an experienced college professor. The first-year experience is conceptualized as a two-way relationship between students and colleges, involving introductions, resistance or acceptance, collaboration and exchange of ideas, and learning. There are both success stories and stories that end in a parting of ways. These stories show what college readiness really means and offer valuable insights about the academic, social, monetary and other forces that can overwhelm the typical college-bound student. Higher education scholars and professionals will benefit from these rich and detailed accounts as they help shape the landscape of 21st century college readiness.
Book Synopsis Exploring Charter High School English Teachers' Perceptions of College-Ready Literacy by : Yer Kathy Her
Download or read book Exploring Charter High School English Teachers' Perceptions of College-Ready Literacy written by Yer Kathy Her and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students entering college underprepared for the standards and expectations of post-secondary schooling is a persistent academic problem. More specifically, students lack college-ready literacy skills, an important skill to access multiple disciplines. With the adoption of the Common Core State Standards and its goal of career and college readiness for all students, it is crucial to examine how high school teachers are understanding and implementing college-readiness standards. Furthermore, if there is a gap in perception of college readiness standards between high school instructors and college instructors, it is important to find out what high school teachers define as college preparatory instruction. Using a phenomenological approach to understand the lack of college-readiness for students, teachers at independent charter high schools were interviewed and some observed to explore teachers' perceptions of college-ready literacy. The study had several significant findings: teachers' background impact their perceptions of their students' college-ready needs; teachers support Common Core but new standards do not prepare poor students for college; teachers believe student apathy, not their curriculum, is to blame for lack of college-readiness; teachers believe a college-ready model limits their students' post-secondary options; and teachers are not thinking about students attending community college when thinking about college-readiness.
