"It Takes an Integrated, College-Wide Effort" and Other Lessons from Seven High Transfer Colleges

Autor/inn/en	Mery, Pamela; Schiorring, Eva
Titel	"It Takes an Integrated, College-Wide Effort" and Other Lessons from Seven High Transfer Colleges
Quelle	In: Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 18 (2011) 2, S.33-41 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068-610X
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Focus Groups; Interviews; Researchers; Effective Schools Research; Administrator Attitudes; Employee Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Counselor Attitudes; Performance Factors; College Transfer Students; Transfer Policy; Transfer Rates (College); Transfer Programs; Change Strategies; Educational Innovation; Educational Practices; Cohort Analysis; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Researcher; Forscher; Schulforschung; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Schülerverhalten; Lehrerverhalten; Leistungsindikator; Hochschulwechsel; Schulwechsel; Studienortwechsel; Lösungsstrategie; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Bildungspraxis; Kohortenanalyse; Kalifornien
Abstract	The Successful Transfer Approach Research (STAR) Project investigated seven California Community Colleges with consistently high transfer rates. Teams of experienced researchers spent two days at each college, interviewing 16-18 administrators, faculty, researchers, and student support service professionals. Focus groups and interviews were also conducted with students, faculty and counselors. This article introduces the study and its findings. Through a cross-case comparison the researchers identified six transfer-promoting factors that were in place at each of the seven colleges: robust transfer culture, student-focused environment, high level of institutional commitment, strong and strategic high school and baccalaureate connections, and effective use of support services. To make these findings useful for practitioners, the researchers developed matrices that describe: (a) the strategies, innovations and/or approaches each of the seven colleges have developed to promote each of the six transfer-promoting factors, and (b) the way the colleges are implementing these strategies, innovations and approaches. (Contains 1 table and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10