Student enrollment in K-12 online learning programs showed a tenfold expansion in the years between 2002 and 2005. Despite increased implementation to fulfill critical local needs, there is very little evidence-based research available to inform education leaders' decisions relating to these initiatives. To address the important question of whether online learning can be as effective as traditional face-to-face learning, this research presents the findings from a quasi-experimental design...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Enrollment, Quasiexperimental Design, Algebra, Online Courses, Instructional...
Seven middle-level schools in a large suburban district created an open enrollment system for advanced English and science courses. The advanced courses provided students with an opportunity to learn through the use of primary sources, high-level literature, and a variety of projects. A vertical teaming process in each middle-high school attendance area was instrumental in promoting teacher collaboration and acceptance of a Pre-AP philosophy intended to expand student access to advanced...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Attitudes, Open Enrollment, Attendance, Advanced...
The purpose of the present article is to provide a case study of what is believed to have been the first master's degree in technology education (TE) to be offered completely online, and the online offering of a sister program in career and technical education (CTE). This case study looks at the impact this move to Internet delivery had on student enrollment and discusses the lessons learned in this process. This study shows that placing technology education and career and technical education...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Effectiveness, Graduate Study, Technology Education, Online Courses,...
This article features the Science Leadership Academy, a new public partnership school in Philadelphia that incorporates core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation, and reflection. Founded by the School District of Philadelphia and The Franklin Institute, SLA is one of four partnership high schools that opened in September 2006 as part of the Secondary Education Movement--one of school district CEO Paul Vallas' major reform efforts. SLA is built on the notion that inquiry is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, School Districts, Educational Change, Values, Dual Enrollment, Leadership, Career...
Almost non-existent five years ago, the use of online courses has grown dramatically in Maryland, with more than 25 courses now available. Online course enrollments have also increased from 31 students in 2003 to more than 600 in 2006. A major reason for this remarkable growth has been the Maryland Students Online Consortium (MSOC), a state-local partnership involving two-thirds of Maryland's 24 school systems (23 counties, one city) and the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE). MSOC...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Federal Legislation, Online Courses, Counties, Consortia, Cooperation, Enrollment,...
This study investigated the interaction between students' academic background (high school grades, standardized exams, and enrollment in advanced high school courses) and how much autonomy they reported having in high school science through labs and projects. The objective was to see if students who reported experiencing more or less self-directed projects and labs performed differently in college science when prior academic background was taken into account. To provide a more solid foundation...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Science, Grades (Scholastic), High Schools, Standardized Tests, Scores,...
The purpose of this qualitative exploratory study was to investigate the perceived state of civics education as viewed by practicing teachers in three large high schools (each with a student enrollment of at least 2,200) in the midwestern and southeastern United States, in an effort to discover what teachers in different geographical regions deem as critical to this area of study. While the answers of teachers at the schools are naturally not meant to represent the entire American teaching...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Attitudes, High School Students, Geographic Regions, Knowledge Level, Student...
This study seeks to identify factors influencing East Asian international students' choices of Canadian graduate schools, to assess the strengths and dynamics of the factors influencing enrolment decisions, and to describe possible implications both for the Canadian government and for Canadian universities offering graduate education. The research sample comprised 140 students from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan who enrolled in graduate programs at two large Ontario universities....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Universities, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Foreign Students,...
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the publication of Mina Shaughnessy's groundbreaking book, "Errors and Expectations," a roundtable discussion was held at the March 2007 Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York City. This article, based on the earlier discussion, examines the question of CUNY's multiple identities within the legacy of Shaughnessy, who coined the term "basic writing" and founded the Journal of Basic Writing in 1975. Composition...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Basic Writing, Writing (Composition), Democracy, Open Enrollment, Urban Schools,...
The urban mission of two-year community colleges with open enrollment policies is to train, retain and graduate students from all walks of life, including the poor, displaced, under-employed, and unemployed. This mission can be undermined if management decisions are not informed by detailed enrollment data, especially on how the timing of student decisions affects their academic success. This paper explores enrollment flow at a large urban, community-based technical college to recommend and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Urban Areas, College Applicants, Student Behavior, Technical Institutes, Community...
This study represented a formal quantitative evaluation of the potential for instant messenger (IM) technology as an outreach tool for undergraduate college admission. Conclusions focused on the popularity of IM, and student use in a formal counselor/student relationship. (Contains 4 tables and 2 figures.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Enrollment Management, College Admission, Computer Mediated Communication,...
Community colleges enroll nearly half the undergraduates in the U.S. These institutions play a significant role in the academic, social, political, and economic future of our nation. As historically open admission institutions, with a primary focus on providing access to higher education, they have been pressed in recent decades--as has all of higher education--to be more accountable and demonstrate the benefits they offer and at what cost. A common measure of accountability is student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Access to Education, Community Colleges, Open Enrollment, College...
Over the last several years there have been numerous calls for reforming high school to college transitions. In 2000-2001, the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) and the National Commission on the High School Senior Year respectively called for a re-thinking of how students moved from secondary to postsecondary education. A widely-discussed initiative was dual or concurrent enrollment, or as referred to by the AYPF during its 200 roundtable discussion, "secondary postsecondary learning...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High Schools, College Credits, Grade 10, Youth, Dual Enrollment, High School Seniors,...
The purpose of this study was to explore the reasons 162 rural area high school students participate in the dual enrollment program. Dual enrollment programs allow high school students to enroll in college courses for credit prior to high school graduation with local school districts covering the cost of tuition. Participants in this study were recruited from two rural agricultural counties from Washington State attending a local college. Exploratory factor analysis revealed that dual...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High Schools, Student Participation, Factor Analysis, Rural Areas, Counties, Grade...
The consolidation of rural schools in the United States has been a controversial topic for policy-makers, school administrators, and rural communities since the 1800s. At issue in the consolidation movement have been concerns of efficiency, economics, student achievement, school size, and community identity. Throughout the history of schooling in America, school consolidation has been a way to solve rural issues in the eyes of policy makers and many education officials. Today, faced with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Rural Schools, Consolidated Schools, Declining Enrollment, Academic Achievement,...
Canadian universities and colleges are becoming increasingly ethnoculturally diverse. Two major social forces have contributed to this change: immigration and increasing enrolment of international students. Minority and international students bring their values, language, culture and educational background to our campuses, to add to and enrich our educational environments. To build an inclusive education, we have the ethical and educational responsibility to embrace such difference and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Multicultural Education, Inclusive Schools, Universities, Cultural...
The authors examine black, white, and Hispanic children's differing experiences in early childhood care and education and explore links between these experiences and racial and ethnic gaps in school readiness. Children who attend center care or preschool programs enter school more ready to learn, but both the share of children enrolled in these programs and the quality of care they receive differ by race and ethnicity. Black children are more likely to attend preschool than white children, but...
Topics: ERIC Archive, African American Children, School Readiness, Learning Readiness, Poverty, Low Income,...
Several major demographic shifts over the past half-century have transformed who we are and how we live in this country in many ways. Most striking, however, is the fact that children today are much more likely to be members of ethnic or racial minority groups. Racial/ethnic minorities are destined, in aggregate, to become the numerical majority within the next few decades. This article presents a wide range of statistics reflecting cultural, family, social, economic, and housing circumstances...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Racial Differences, Socioeconomic Influences, Ethnicity, Poverty, Educational...
"The New England Journal of Higher Education" (formerly "Connection") presents its "Annual Directory of New England Colleges and Universities," providing a wealth of information on New England higher education. For more than a quarter of a century, this college and university directory has been the publication of record for those seeking important information about New England colleges and universities. The "Annual Directory of New England College and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Colleges, Universities, Community Colleges, Enrollment, Endowment...
"Connection" presents its "Annual Directory of New England Colleges and Universities," providing a wealth of information on New England higher education. For more than a quarter of a century, this college and university directory has been the publication of record for those seeking important information about New England colleges and universities. The "Annual Directory of New England College and Universities" features vital information on each of New England's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Colleges, Universities, Community Colleges, Enrollment, Endowment...
"Connection" presents its "Annual Directory of New England Colleges and Universities," providing a wealth of information on New England higher education. For more than a quarter of a century, this college and university directory has been the publication of record for those seeking important information about New England colleges and universities. The "Annual Directory of New England College and Universities" features vital information on each of New England's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Colleges, Universities, Community Colleges, Enrollment, Endowment...
"Connection" presents its "Annual Directory of New England Colleges and Universities," providing a wealth of information on New England higher education. For more than a quarter of a century, this college and university directory has been the publication of record for those seeking important information about New England colleges and universities. The "Annual Directory of New England College and Universities" features vital information on each of New England's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Colleges, Universities, Community Colleges, Enrollment, Endowment...
This article examines the efforts of a team of educators in a mid-western urban university in Omaha, Nebraska, to understand why so few persons of color enter the teaching profession and to identify actions that can be taken to attract them. The questions that were posed included the following: (1) What does past research say about recruiting teachers of color?; (2) What is known about various students of color and their career selections?; (3) What information can people gain from mid-west...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Urban Universities, Minority Groups, Teacher Recruitment, Career Choice, Teacher...
This review of literature was written in preparation for conducting a research study on the U.S. community college system as a potential model for developing countries, and using Vietnam as a specific case. It is divided into four sections: (a) a discussion of the purposes of higher education (HE), (b) an examination of problems faced by the HE systems in developing countries, (c) a description of Vietnam's HE context, and (d) perspectives concerning U.S. community colleges. The literature...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Salaries, Higher Education, Community Colleges, Institutional Autonomy,...
These authors state that, while New England schools serve the children of the affluent very well, many children from low-income backgrounds are left behind at key points in the "non-system" that is perpetuated from preschool through college and beyond. They suggest that all segments of New England education should work more closely together so that more children, especially urban and rural students, could complete college degrees. Nationally, the State Higher Education Executive...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Low Income Groups, Philanthropic...
This article presents the New England Journal of Higher Education (NEJHE) Trends & Indicators in Higher Education, featuring 64 tables and charts exploring New England's demography, high school performance and graduation, college enrollment, college graduation rates and degree production, higher education financing, and university research. The figures presented in this report are organized to correspond with the four goals of the New England Board of Higher Education's (NEBHE's)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Management Systems, School Readiness, Graduation Rate, Demography,...
New England higher education is about to experience a decade-long demographic crisis unlike anything in its history. While the crisis will significantly affect all six New England States, it will be most acute in the three northern states, as the competition for qualified high school graduates begins to intensify. The New England states, including its colleges and universities, will soon be competing aggressively for a dwindling number of prospective students. This article observes that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, High School Graduates, Declining Enrollment, Elementary Secondary...
This study identified the extent to which family factors increase school enrollment in Bolivia, after adjusting for human and financial capital. The sample was drawn from the 1998 Demographic and Health Survey. Logistic regression models were used to determine the effect of human capital, financial capital and family factors on school enrollment. Results of the study indicated that mother's education, the socioeconomic status of the family and the mother's knowledge of health issues all...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Human Capital, Socioeconomic Status, Health Education, Mothers, Foreign Countries,...
Students of color are consistently underrepresented in honors and gifted programs nationwide, and even high-achieving students share many of the risk factors with their low-achieving peers. The study presented in this paper employed mixed methods to investigate the relationship between the design of a rigorous college preparatory program, the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IB), and the socioeconomic status of the students the program serves. The paper begins with a brief overview...
Topics: ERIC Archive, African American Students, Intervention, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic...
There is a growing gap between Maine high school graduates' "college intentions" and their actual college enrollment, according to a recent study by the Senator George J. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute. A follow-up to a similar study the institute conducted five years ago, the new research is based on enrollment data from colleges and Maine public high schools, surveys of more than 3,000 Maine parents, students, young adults and educators and group interviews in 19 high...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High Schools, High School Graduates, Young Adults, Enrollment, College Bound...
The United States has long been a world leader in education, innovation, high-tech employment, and research and development (R&D). Its future status, however, is not secure. This is the conclusion of more than two dozen reports in recent years from a variety of groups of business leaders, educators and government officials. In this article, the author determines why U.S. leadership in education, innovation, high-tech employment and R&D is in jeopardy--with particularly significant...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Research and Development, Employment, Technological Advancement, Sciences,...
Dashboard reports--like an automobile's instrument panel--present quick, comprehensible overviews of the institution's status and direction. Instead of speed, RPM and engine temperature, dashboard reports display comparable measures of organizational performance and mission effectiveness. These key performance indicators (KPIs) are presented in consistent formats that enable institutional leaders to readily spot significant changes and trends. Like an automobile dashboard, these reports often...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Enrollment, School Holding Power, Benchmarking, Academic Achievement, Butler,...
The Institute of International Education's annual census of academic mobility reveals that 7.5 percent of the nearly 600,000 international students attending U.S. colleges and universities in 2005 went to campuses in New England. In this article, the author explains why New England's higher education enterprise will continue to lure international students in a post 9/11, "flat" world. The lure of New England is not only that the region has so many excellent and welcoming schools, but...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Students, Colleges, Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Mobility,...
The increasingly popular option of applying "early decision" (ED) requires a student to make a binding commitment that, if admitted to a particular college, she or he will enroll. Now offered by 184 U.S. colleges and universities, ED is a highly effective--and therefore highly seductive--tool for managing enrollment. This author argues, however, that it is not necessarily in the best interest of most students or their parents. A successful ED application commits a student to a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Colleges, Student Financial Aid, Access to Education, College Admission, Early...
Back in 1978 when the author was a young lobbyist in Washington, D.C., she recalls a presentation about the demographic change that would reshape the United States over the following 25 years. Whites would no longer make up the majority of the population, and the speaker talked of a "minority majority." The changes that were forecast were dramatic but not imminent, so the talk received very little attention. Now, 25 years later, demographic projections still don't draw much attention....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Out of State Students, Higher Education, Demography, High School Graduates, College...
Over the past 30 years, there has been significant progress in the educational advancement of women in the United States and New England. Nationally, the percentage of adult women with four-year college degrees increased from 8 percent in 1970 to 24 percent in 2000. Women narrowed the gap with men in college completion, as the female-to-male ratio in percentages of Americans with four-year college degrees went from below 60 percent to 85 percent. Yet women's progress in higher education has not...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Economic Status, Females, Males, Colleges, Salary Wage...
The Ohio PSEO Program is a legislated dual enrollment curricular offering. The program provides higher educational courses that are also credited at the high school and funded at state expense for qualifi ed students. Although individual and institutional benefits of the program abound (i.e., accelerated postsecondary completion, decreased expenses, articulation agreements, seamless education, and reduction in developmental college courses), the utilization rate has not appreciably increased,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Focus Groups, Articulation (Education), Dual Enrollment, Postsecondary Education,...
The Government is embarking on a grand market-based vision for the sector just at the moment when university enrolments will begin a long and perhaps inexorable slide. And according to Michael Gallagher, higher education is becoming a less attractive investment for the private sector even as the Government is pushing the sector towards ever higher proportions of non-government funding. (Contains 4 tables and 6 endnotes.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Private Sector, Enrollment, Postsecondary Education, Vocational...
This study describes the characteristics, enrollment, and completion rates of students with disabilities and the support services they received over a three-year period. Between 1998 and 2001 a total of 604 students with disabilities enrolled in undergraduate courses at Athabasca University, which represents 1.5% of the student population. More than half (52%) had a physical disability, 20% had a learning disability, 20% had a psychological disability, 4% had some form of visual impairment, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Distance Education, Student Characteristics, Enrollment Rate, Graduation Rate,...
Are magnet schools in a position to meet diversity ideals? As districts are declared unitary and released from court ordered desegregation, many are framing their commitments to fairness and equity in terms of diversity--i.e., comparable rates of participation and comparable educational outcomes in all segments the student population. In this study, the enrollment statistics for magnet and contiguous non-magnet public schools in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, a large, urban district that had...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Urban Schools, Public Schools, Magnet Schools, Outcomes of Education, Enrollment...
This study, which explores factors that motivate developmental mathematics students to seek available assistance with their coursework, showed statistically significant correlations between the number of math learning center visits and various variables. An interaction effect was revealed between mathematics confidence and years of college enrollment. The data suggests that younger college students are less inclined to seek mathematics learning center assistance than returning adults and that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mathematics Education, Learning Centers (Classroom), Enrollment, Remedial...
Diploma in Youth Development Work (DYDW) imparted through distance mode which was introduced at Bangladesh Open University (BOU) in 1999 aiming at accessible and flexible learning opportunities to the young men and women involved in youth development activities and prepare the participating youth towards performing active and constructive role in the regeneration of their fellow youth to become effective partners in socio-economic development. The program feature and success and failure of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Distance Education, Open Universities, Foreign Countries, College Programs, Youth,...
Dual enrollment programs are collaborative efforts between high schools and colleges, in which high school students are permitted to take college courses. These programs provide students with a challenging academic experience and the opportunity to earn college credit prior to high school graduation. Despite the popularity of dual enrollment, one has not known much about its effectiveness as a strategy for increasing students' college success. This article presents a study conducted by the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduation, College Credits, Dual Enrollment, High School Students, Partnerships in...
As online courses have become more of an alternative to the traditional classroom environment there's a need for exploring methods on how to evaluate these online courses and their learning objectives. The intent of this research paper is to determine how we can improve online student grades so that failure rates are not 100% higher when comparing them to students attending a traditional campus course and also reduce the rate of late assignments and dropouts. This writer will identify the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Research Papers (Students), Distance Education, Dropouts, Online Courses, Methods,...
Institutions of higher learning serve as a portal, through which opportunities for life, and potential for social evolution are intrinsically bound. The decision of who is allowed to pass through this portal is not only a defining moment for the individual student, but also a significant portent towards the fulfillment of social justice on which this nation was founded. At the front lines of this issue are admission officers, who through their leadership have the power to advocate for equal...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Justice, Equal Education, Higher Education, Construct Validity, Cultural...
Before instituting any new selection criteria for admission to principal preparation programs, the author considers several factors that are likely to interact with admission criteria. These include the impact on program enrollment, effects on applicants' choices in the marketplace, benefits likely to accrue from any new measures vis-a-vis faculty effort, and the alignment of proposed criteria with the program's purposes and desired outcomes. Where market forces and organizational incentives...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Admission Criteria, Principals, Standards, Standard Setting, Administrator Education,...
Because of advances in psychotropic medications, psychiatric rehabilitation methods, the implementation of civil rights legislation, and empowerment movement of consumers with psychiatric disabilities, students with mental illnesses are increasingly able to access and complete higher education. Disability services offices on college campuses can be an important resource to these students. This article reports the results of a survey of disability services offices at colleges and universities in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities),...
This article presents the results of two studies on the applicability and use of universal design in higher education. In Study 1, the instructional climate for students with disabilities was assessed through a survey of 271 faculty members and teaching associates (TAs) and focus groups with 92 additional faculty members and TAs. Survey respondents ranked universal design for learning (UDL) as the most needed training topic. A web-based, self-paced professional development tool called FAME...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Needs, Focus Groups, Disabilities, Access to Education, Professional...
The essential nature of public school student performance on standardized examinations is becoming increasingly apparent. As schools across the nation are examined more closely based on the science achievement of students, career and technical education programs will be expected to contribute to this effort. Through the lens of Ajzen and Madden's (1986) Theory of Planned Behavior, this study examined 217 Florida agriculture teachers' perceptions of science integration in the agriculture...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Science Achievement, Agricultural Education, Vocational Education, Teacher Attitudes,...
The purpose of this study was to identify the agricultural education enrollment trends in Iowa using 15 years of data collected from 1991 to 2005. It was found that agricultural education enrollment, Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) participation, and FFA membership have grown. Using annualized growth rates, agricultural education enrollment (4.06%) grew more rapidly than SAE participation (1.65%) and FFA membership (2.39%). Although growth was realized in all three components, the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agricultural Education, Experiential Learning, Enrollment Trends, Longitudinal...