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Student Success Programming, College Academic Achievement Scores, And Retention Rates, Leslie D. Merritt
Student Success Programming, College Academic Achievement Scores, And Retention Rates, Leslie D. Merritt
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Student success programming was created to help students transition to the college environment and coursework. While many university-created programs are geared to all students, federally-funded programs and some university-created programs aim to specifically help students from marginalized populations. With Spady’s (1970) and Tinto’s (1975) theories guiding the conceptual framework, this study examined the relationship between participation in student success programs as it related to grade point averages and retention rates. Additional focus was placed on Black and Pell-eligible participants of student success programming. The study was conducted using archival data from two mid-size, public, four-year institutions of higher education. One …
Measuring The Achievement Gap: A New Lens For Economic Disadvantage, Suzanne C. Bryant
Measuring The Achievement Gap: A New Lens For Economic Disadvantage, Suzanne C. Bryant
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The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a difference between a student’s reading/language arts TCAP scale score and his or her lunch status for students in grades three, four, & five within two school systems in Tennessee. The population consisted of 2,442 students who were in grades three, four, and five during the 2014-2015 school year in a city school system in east Tennessee and a county school system in middle Tennessee. The Kruskal-Wallis H, a non-parametric test, was used to identify statistically significant differences in the medians of the reading/language arts TCAP scores across the …