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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"college readiness"”.
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Does agriculture education affect college readiness?
… study focuses on the different areas that affect college readiness during student’s high school experience. This includes, but is not limited to, socioeconomic status, percent of students enrolled in agriculture classes, teacher quality and retention, and school resources. The data will be …
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Consumers and Makers: Exploring Opposing Paradigms of Millennial College Readiness
… culminated in opposing epistemic paradigms of college readiness, where millennial students’ conceptual understanding of “learning” is both narrowed to meet the demands of school systems bound to accountability and amplified by a rapidly evolving digital world. The researcher theorized that …
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Beyond the Dream:Improving College-Readiness of Underprepared Community College Students
<p>The majority of the nation’s first-year college students are not prepared to assume postsecondary level studies. Many are diverted to developmental education programs and most never attain postsecondary credentials. Educational reform is on the national agenda and challenges community colleges …
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AN ARTS HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO COLLEGE READINESS
… if a positive relationship exists between college readiness and a high school for the arts experience. This research focused on one arts high school in order to determine graduate perspectives on the overall importance of such an education and whether or not this style of learning was …
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Youth Bear Witness to Mentoring of the Black Church for College Readiness
<p>This dissertation in practice examines the college readiness of five African American high school male students in urban schools in Pittsburgh, PA based on their participation in a middle school mentoring program sponsored by an urban Black church. Situated within Michael Dantley’s critical …
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An Early College High School Case Study: Experiences that Impact Self-identified College Readiness
… high school seniors participating in and Early College High School program and identify their self-perceived levels of college readiness. The study emphasizes self-identified predictions of preparedness in four college readiness component areas, identified by Conley (2007a, 2007b), including …
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How a secondary school as an organization defines and embeds the term college readiness
… the many reforms and initiatives regarding college readiness, understanding how organizations use rhetoric to determine and define what college readiness is and what it looks like can either reinforce dominant institutional structures and practices, or create new definitions and …
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Consistent Coaching and Alignment: A New Way of Work for College Readiness System Staff
… system of interaction and accountability between College Readiness System (CRS) Staff and school systems across the country, a coaching framework was created. This framework provides a repeatable, consistent model for CRS staff members to use with each school implementing CRS across the nation. …
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Collaborative Action in Education: Empirical Explorations of the Role of Partnerships in College Readiness Programs
… or role models that will prepare them to seek a college education. To help combat this phenomenon, Federal and State Governments have promoted college readiness programs via collaborative partnerships between school districts, on the one hand, and colleges and universities, on the other.</p> …
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The Pontem Path: A Case Study of a Catholic Bridge Program Focusing on College Readiness
… to Georgetown’s 2015 study on the economics of college majors, a college graduate makes $1 million more than a high school graduate (Carnevale et al., 2015). In addition, the study indicated a difference of $3.4 million in income between the highest and lowest paying majors. One way to bridge …
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Factors Influencing College Readiness: Supports and Barriers Experienced by Academically Resilient First-Generation Hispanic Males
… Hispanic male high school students who met the college entrance requirements for the University of California and California State University systems. Research indicates that Hispanic males lag behind other underrepresented populations when it comes to college readiness, application, and …
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Perceptions of College Readiness and Social Capital of GED completers in entry-level college courses
… completion, and GED completers’ perceptions of college readiness and social capital was the purpose of this study. The participant sample (<em>n=321</em>), derived from the target population (N=1050), consisted of former participants of Adult Literacy Education (ALE)/GED programs in the Greater …
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An evaluation of the college readiness of graduating English language learners in Utah public schools.
… in our nation. This dissertation focused on the college readiness of graduating English language learner (ELL) students in one western mountain state. The variables of gender, language proficiency levels, and free or reduced lunch status were studied, seeking to understand if those variables were …
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Investigating an alternative curriculum : New Tech Network high school alumni share perceptions of their college readiness
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AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES: A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY ON SCHOOL FACTORS THAT AFFECT RESILIENCE AND COLLEGE READINESS
… African American male students’ state of college readiness. A qualitative approach was used to examine the support and resources needed to help educators foster resilience in, and better prepare African American males for college. Specifically employed in this qualitative study were …
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Relationship of Tech Prep Participation and Academic Resources to College Readiness at Two Selected Tech Prep Consortia
… were significant predictors of the odds of being college-ready in mathematics, whereas gender, GPA9, and mathematics academic resources were significant predictors of the odds of being college-ready in mathematics in Texas. In Illinois, GPA9 and foreign language academic resources were significant …
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Differences in Mathematics and Reading College Readiness by Student Language Status and Economic Status: A Multiyear Statewide Investigation
Purpose The purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to determine the degree to which differences were present for Emergent Bilingual students and non-EmergentBilingual students in their performance on the Algebra I and English I End-of-Course exams and the degree to which Emergent Bilingual …
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