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1. ACT, Inc. 2007. Rigor at risk: Reaffirming quality in the high school core curriculum.
A report which examines the quality of high school core curriculum courses in preparing students for college-level work.
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2. Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. 2005. Access and persistence: Fall 2005.
Contains an analysis of "why policy research matters," an examination of the adequacy of financial aid, ACSFA recommendations in the Higher Education Act Reauthorization, and new legislative changes and policy research initiatives.
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3. Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. 2006. Reflections on college access and persistence.
A report which "examines both the challenges involved in closing income-related gaps in educational attainment and the potential solutions needed at each stage of the education pipeline."
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4. Ajose, L., MacGregor, C., and Yan, L. 2007. Emergency financial aid for community college students: Implementation and early lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund programs..
A preliminary report on the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund programs, which seek to provide financial assistance to community college students who are at risk of dropping out.
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5. Akey, T., Plucker, J., Hansen, J., Michael, R., Branon, S., Fagen, R., Zhou, G and Associates. 2008. Study of the effectiveness and efficiency of charter schools in Indiana.
An in-depth examination of Indiana charter school efficiency and effectiveness is described in this report. The report reflects the contributions and perspectives of multiple individuals and organizations, addressing a set of specific evaluation questions related to charter school process effectiveness and efficiency.
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6. Allen, L., and Kazis, R. 2007. Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions.
This publication looks at four colleges that are national leaders in using institutional research strategically and for improvement: City College of San Francisco; Community College of Baltimore County; Indian River Community College; and LaGuardia Community College.
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7. Allensworth, E., and Easton, J. 2005. The on-track indicator as a predictor of high school graduation.
Defines the on-track indicator used by the Chicago Public School system to gauge first-year students' progress as a predictor of high school graduation.
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8. American Institutes for Research. 2007. Evaluation of the early college high school initiative.
This report is the third annual synthesis report on the national evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI).
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9. Anderson, P. 2000. Where the boys aren't: Recent trends in U.S. college enrollment patterns.
Article which explores the trend of declining college enrollment for males.
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10. Aragon, S. R. 2002. An investigation of factors influencing classroom motivation for postsecondary American Indian/Alaska native students.
This report investigates the environmental and social factors, for American Indian/Alaska Native students, that maintain student motivation for learning.
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11. Asch, B. J., Fair, C. C., and Kilburn, M. R. An assessment of recent proposals to improve the Montgomery GI bill.
An assessment of proposals to improve the Montgomery GI bill.
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12. Association of American Colleges and Universities, and Liberal Education and America's Promise. 2005. Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college.
This report on liberal education outcomes provides a wide-ranging and thought-provoking overview of student achievement in college.
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13. Babco, E. L. 2003. Trends in African American and Native American participation in STEM higher education.
Article which explores themes regarding the participation of African and Native Americans in postsecondary education in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
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14. Bailey, T. and Karp, M. M. 2003. Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs.
This report reviews existing literature to explore the impact of credit-based transition programs on college access and success.
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15. Baum, S. and Schwartz, S. 2006. How much debt is too much? Definting benchmarks for manageable student debt.
A paper which "examines current perceptions of "manageable" debt burdens" with the purpose of informing others on this issue and guiding programs designed to relieve excessive debt burdens.
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16. Black, A., Doolittle, F., Zhu, P., Unterman, R., and Grossman, J. 2008. The evaluation of enhanced academic instruction in after-school programs: Findings after the first year of implementation.
This report presents findings, after one year of program implementation, from the Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs — a two-year intervention and random assignment evaluation of adapted models of regular-school-day math and reading instruction in after-school settings for students in grades 2 through 5.
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17. Bloom, D. and Sommo, C. 2005. Building learning communities: Early results from the Opening Doors demonstration and Kingsborough community college.
A report which examines the effectiveness of an implementation of the Opening Doors Learning Communities program in Kinsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York.
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18. Bloom, D., Gardenhire-Crooks, A, and Mandsager, C. 2009. Reengaging high school dropouts: Early results of the national guard youth challenge program evaluation.
This report presents very early results from a rigorous, independent evaluation of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program, an intensive residential program that aims to “reclaim the lives” of young people ages 16 to 18 who have dropped out of school.
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19. Bloom, D., Redcross, C., Zweig, J., and Azurdia, G. 2007. Transitional jobs for ex-prisoners: Early impacts from a random assignment evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program.
This paper presents early results from an evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) in New York City, a highly regarded employment program for former prisoners.
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20. Bloom, H., Thompson, S., Unterman, R., Herlihy, C., and Paine, C. 2010. Transforming the high school experience: How New York City's new small schools are boosting student achievement and graduation rates.
This report presents encouraging findings, providing clear and reliable evidence that, in roughly six years, a large system of small public high schools can be created and can markedly improve graduation prospects for many disadvantaged students.
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21. Bond, L. 2009. Toward informative assessment and a culture of evidence: Results from strengthening pre-collegiate education in community colleges.
This report discusses the myriad ways in which colleges participating in the SPECC initiative have used both traditional measures of student performance, such as class grades and course completion, as well as more innovative forms of assessment and data collection to improve pedagogical practice and to enhance student learning.
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22. Borman, G. 2009. The past, present, and future of comprehensive school reform.
The last major review of the achievement outcomes of comprehensive school reform (CSR) models was conducted in 2003. Six years after the original study, the study’s lead author now revisits the results and interprets how the policy and research landscape has evolved over the years.
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23. Boylan, H., and Saxton, P. What works in remediation: Lessons from 30 years of research.
Thirty years of research has provided a substantial body of knowledge to guide the practice of remediation with underprepared students on community college campuses. This study provides techniques, models, and structures that can contribute to successful remediation in the community college setting.
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24. Brancard, R., DeLott, E., and Jensen, L. 2006. Accelerated developmental education project.
The Community College of Denver initiated an accelerated learning community for working adults needing developmental education in the fall of 2005. This report documents the early success of this program in assisting students to complete developmental courses at a pace faster than their peers.
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25. Brock, T., Jenkins, D., Ellwein, T., Miller, J., Gooden, S., Martin K., MacGregor, C., Pih, M., Miller, B., and Geckeler, C. 2007. Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative.
This report, a coproduction of MDRC and the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University’s Teachers College, describes Achieving the Dream’s attempt to build a “culture of evidence” at the first 27 community colleges that joined the Building a Culture of Evidence initiative.
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26. Burgdorf, B. D. and Kostka, K. Eliminating complexity and inconsistency in federal financial aid programs for higher education students: Towards a more strategic approach.
One in a series of issue papers to inform the work of the Secretary's "Commission on the Future of Higher Education," this paper succintly describes the different types of federal financial aid and makes suggestions to simplify the system to maximize the policy objectives of access, retention, and decreased debt burden.
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27. Bush, K. Indiana college success coalition.
This presentation provides evaluation of Indiana's educational system and the level of educational attainment of the state's citizens.
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28. Cahalan, M. 2009. Addressing study error in the random assignment national evaluation of Upward Bound: Do the conclusions change?.
The 1992-2004 UB Evaluation took on the character of a “high-stakes evaluation” with clear consequences for the program in terms of its PART labeling, reform policy decisions, and funding recommendations. Eventually it also had serious Congressionally-mandated consequences in terms of TRIO evaluation method prohibitions.
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29. Calcagno, J., and . 2008. The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance.
This study uses a detailed dataset to identify the causal effect of remediation on the educational outcomes of nearly 100,000 college students in Florida, an important state that reflects broader national trends in remediation policy and student diversity.
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30. Canadian Career Development Foundation. 2007. Applying the construct of resilience to career development: Lessons in curriculum development.
The purpose of this paper is to summarize the results of background research conducted by the Canada Career Development Foundation, consolidating and extrapolating key themes from this research to the development of the Future to Discover Grade 12 curriculum.
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31. Carey, J., Dimmit, C., and House, R. 2003. The ASCA national model.
This presentation summarizes the American School Counselor Association's model for data-driven school counseling and guidance practices.
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32. Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement. 2006. Research brief: Practices that support data use in urban high schools.
This research brief examines a study focusing on factors that have had an impact on the use of student performance data in low-performing urban high schools. The study examines how five low-performing, high-poverty urban high schools in three school districts used data to inform school improvement.
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33. Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis. 2009. Mentoring scaffoldings: Do they promote college access?.
This paper summarizes what is known and what is not known about mentoring programs focused on youth and related to college going.
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34. Center for Innovation in Assessment. 2005. Keeping students in school: What other states are doing for at-risk students.
Report which looks at best practices from several states for promoting the success of at-risk students in high school.
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35. Center for Technology in Learning. 2009. Evaluation of evidence-based practices in online learning: A meta-analysis and review of online learning studies.
A systematic search of the research literature from 1996 through July 2008 identified more than a thousand empirical studies of online learning. Analysts screened these studies to find those that (a) contrasted an online to a face-to-face condition, (b) measured student learning outcomes, (c) used a rigorous research design, and (d) provided adequate information to calculate an effect size.
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36. Center on Education Policy. 2007. Answering the question that matters most: Has student achievement increased since No Child Left Behind?.
This study evaluates the effectiveness of the No Child Left Behind Act by assessing the extent to which student achievement has increased and achievement gaps have narrowed since the enactment of NCLB in 2002.
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37. Chaney, B., Muraskin, L., Cahalan, M., and Rak, R. 1997. National study of student support services. Third-year longitudinal study results and program implementation study update.
This follow-up study, part of the National Study of Student Support Services compared the status of 2,900 disadvantaged students receiving student support services (SSS) since entering college 3 years earlier and 2,900 nonparticipating comparable students.
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38. Chatterjee, S., and Ionescu, F. 2009. Insuring college failure risk.
Participants in student loan programs must repay loans in full regardless of whether they complete college. But many students who take out a loan do not earn a degree (the dropout rate among college students is between 33 to 50 percent). We examine whether insurance against college-failure risk can be offered, taking into account moral hazard and adverse selection.
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39. Chavers, D. 2000. Indian students and college preparation.
A study which examines "the extent to which high schools are preparing American Indian students for college."
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40. Chou, J., Calahan, M., Humphrey, J., Overton, A., Belle, R., and Bergeron, F. 2002. A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99.
Intended to serve as a resource for the improvement of Talent Search services, this report provides a comprehensive profile of the Talent Search Program using the 1998-99 performance report data.
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41. Coles, A., Purcell, J., and Gonzalo, R. 2006. Early commitment financial aid programs - Do they increase college access?.
Presentation delivered at the College Board national forum which dicusses the efficacy of early commitment financial aid programs in promoting college access.
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42. Community College Research Center. 2006. Community College Research Center.
The Community College Research Center (CCRC) is the leading independent authority on the nation’s more than 1,200 two-year colleges.
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43. Comprehensive School Reform Awards Database, U.S. Department of Education. 2006. State achievement data websites.
This site provides links to school achievement data in each of the fifty states.
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44. Delta Cost Project. 2009. Calculating cost-return for investments in students success .
This pilot project tied program-level cost data to student outcomes and explored the extent to which the additional revenue that colleges and universities generate by increasing student retention offsets the additional cost of first-year programs.
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45. Destin. M., and Oyserman, D. From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions.
Children from low asset families may lower their expectations for school success and plan to engage in less effort in school. To test this hypothesis, two studies examine the impact of experimentally manipulating mindset about college as either “closed” (expensive) or “open” (can be paid for with need-based financial aid) among low-income early adolescents.
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46. Dickeson, R. C. 2000. Reforming education in Indiana: High achievers speak out.
This report explores the results of a survey of 100 national merit scholars from Indiana schools to assess potential areas for school improvement.
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47. Douglass, J., and Thomson, G. 2008. The poor and the rich: A look at economic stratification and academic performance among undergraduate students in the United States.
This paper explores the divide between poor and rich students, first comparing a group of selective US institutions and their number and percentage of Pell Grant recipients and then, using institutional data and results from the University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey, presenting an analysis of the high percentage of low-income undergraduate students within the University of California system.
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48. Duffett, A., and Farkas, S. 2009. Growing pains in the advanced placement program: Do tough trade-offs lie ahead?.
This study of AP teachers in America’s public high schools included a national random survey (in which 1,024 AP teachers participated) and four focus groups with AP teachers. The study focused on two basic research themes: 1. What explains the growth in the AP Program? and 2. What impact has this growth had?
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49. Easton, J., Ponisciak, S., and Luppescu, S. 2008. From high school to the future: The pathway to 20.
This report is part of a series of studies related to college going by Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students. The study looks closely into the CPS goal of having more students score 20 or better on the ACT.
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50. ECMC Foundation. PERSIST (Guide to improve higher education persistence, retention, and success).
PERSIST can help schools keep students in college. It provides tools that can increase retention and graduation rates, especially among low-income, first-generation college students of all ages.
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51. Education Commission of the States. 2008. Education Commission of the States: Research studies database.
This unique resource provides research studies on issues such as dropout prevention, high school curriculum, ninth grade transitions, advanced placement, and supports for low-performing schools and districts.
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52. Education Trust. 2006. Funding Gaps 2006.
This report documents the process by which poorer states receive less funding for education, poorer districts receive lower funding, and poorer schools within districts are under-funded.
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53. Educational Policy Institute. 2007. Measuring the effectiveness of student assistance - Annual report 2006.
In the spring and summer of 2005, the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation negotiated a series of agreements with provincial governments to deliver a set of millennium access bursaries to Canadian students presently under-represented in postsecondary education. This document is the project’s annual report for 2006.
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54. Eggleston, C. and Gehring, T. Recidivism as a measure of correctional success.
An essay that investigates the use of recidivism rates as a measure of correctional success.
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55. Encouragement Services, Inc. CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments.
The Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) is an online guidance assessment, reporting, and communications system designed to help counselors and other education support professionals document and respond to students' career and education needs, interests, and experiences.
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56. Engstrom, C., and Tinto, V. 2008. Learning better together: The impact of learning communities on the persistence of low-income students.
This article describes the major findings from a longitudinal study of the impact of learning communities on the success of academically under-prepared, low-income students in 13 community colleges across the country. The findings strongly support adapting the learning community model to basic skills instruction to improve learning and persistence for this population.
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57. Erisman, W. and McSwain, C. 2006. Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program.
A review of "preliminary findings of research on the Gates Millenium Scholars Program."
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58. Evaluation Exchange. 2005. Evaluating family involvement programs.
Brings together the current knowledge base of programs in family support and family involvement, providing perspective on family processes related to learning and development.
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59. Evenbeck, S. 2008. First-year programs: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes.
One of a series highlighting key practices undertaken by some of the many successful BEAMS schools during the project's five years of data collection and action plan implementation, this practice brief points out the first-year student initiatives undertaken at four institutions.
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60. ExpectMore.gov. 2006. Detailed information on the Montgomery GI bill - veterans education benefits assessment.
A detailed overview of the 2003 assessment of the Montomgery GI Bill - Veterans Education Benefits.
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61. Fann, A. 2004. Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going.
Report on a study which seeks to "better understand the complexities of college going for American Indian students, primarily from California Native nations."
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62. Farrell, E. F. 2005. GI blues.
An article that explores the ways in which GI Bill tuition benefits fall short for many veterans.
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63. Figlio, D., Rush, M., and Yin, L. 2010. Is it live or is it Internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning.
This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction.
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64. FinancialAidLetter.com LLC. 2007. Financial aid letter.com.
A website with information designed to clarify the process of interpreting financial aid award letters.
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