Students Earning Zero Credits. Data Notes. Volume 3, Number 5, September/October 2008

Autor/inn/en	Clery, Sue; Topper, Amy
Institution	Achieving the Dream, Inc.
Titel	Students Earning Zero Credits. Data Notes. Volume 3, Number 5, September/October 2008
Quelle	(2008), (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Credits; Dropouts; Nontraditional Students; Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Age Differences; Correlation; Predictor Variables; Terminal Students; African American Students; American Indians; Asian American Students; Pacific Americans; Hispanic American Students; White Students; Academic Persistence; Developmental Studies Programs; Outcomes of Education; Statistical Data; Enrollment; Student Characteristics; College Students; Evidence; Achievement Gap; National Programs; At Risk Students; Cohort Analysis; Educational Policy; Comparative Analysis; Improvement Programs; Withdrawal (Education); Part Time Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Geschlechterkonflikt; Rassenunterschied; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Korrelation; Prädiktor; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; American Indian; Indianer; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanoamerikaner; Developmental studies; Developmental psychology; Study; Studies; Entwicklungspsychologie; Studium; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Einschulung; Collegestudent; Evidenz; nicht übertragen; Kohortenanalyse; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Effizienzsteigerung; Kursabbruch; Part-time students; Teilzeitstudent
Abstract	Nearly one-quarter of students in community colleges leave school during the first year of enrollment for reasons other than transfer or credential completion. Generally, nontraditional community college students drop out within their first year at higher rates than do traditional students. Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, this analysis identifies the characteristics of Achieving the Dream students who enroll but do not earn any credits during the first term, and focuses on their persistence to the second term. The analysis revealed a set of characteristics having strong associations with earning zero credits during the first term: Being male, black, between 20 and 24, needing developmental education, or starting part-time, which was the strongest of these relationships. If a student did not earn credits, another set of characteristics was related to a greater likelihood of not persisting to the second term. The strongest relationships were being Native American, male, over 20 years old, attending part-time, or being enrolled in a terminal program. These results do not explain why students leave college, but they do help identify populations more likely to leave college early. (Contains 2 figures and 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10