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College Readiness And Academic Successes For Arts Magnet And Traditional High School Graduates, Dianne Crum Dawood
College Readiness And Academic Successes For Arts Magnet And Traditional High School Graduates, Dianne Crum Dawood
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of the arts magnet high school in preparing its graduates for college readiness from the threshold of college admission (high school grade point average and achievement scores) through matriculation to the type of baccalaureate degree awarded.
The setting was 15 public arts magnet high schools and 15 randomly-selected public traditional high schools and the Florida State University System of 11 postsecondary institutions. The research population was four 6-year cohorts of graduates of the 30 high schools in the present study (N = 8,967). Logistic and linear regression techniques, college …