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Moving Into Town and Moving On: The Community College in the Lives of Traditional-age Students

Cliff Adelman

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Description:This book offers a series of transcript-based portraits of traditional-age community college students. To provide the portraits, this book draws principally on the most recently completed of the grade-cohort longitudinal studies of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/2000), which began with a national sample of 25,000 eighth-graders in U.S. schools in 1988 and followed subgroups of this cohort to 2000. The postsecondary transcripts for 8,900 members of this cohort (representing a weighted 2.2 million students) were gathered in 2000, when most cohort members were 26 or 27 years old, and the story lines of Moving Into Town are built from the transcript records. The inquiry is guided by a strain in the literature of environmental design that approaches human settlements through the eyes and experience of people who use and move through them. It sees the community college as just such a human settlement, and for the convenience of narrative, calls it a “town,” the fundamental commerce of which is the delivery of learning in different districts (subject matter) by various means and schedules. Across the portraits and the various aspects of student academic history examined in this study, the book finds six distinct traditional-age populations served by the community college:1. A persistent group oriented toward traditional academic and occupational fields that establishes a path of attainment involving transfer and earning a bachelor's degree;2. An equally persistent group oriented toward the intermediate occupational credentials awarded by community colleges that also establishes a path of attainment;3. A group with significantly weaker secondary school preparation that struggles to acquire a modicum of credits in the community college, then stops;4. A group that basically withdraws on entry to the community college, earning few if any credits;5. Temporary visitors who are based in other types of institutions, principally four-year; and6. A small population of undergraduate reverse transfers who evidence declining momentum toward credentials at any level.More information online at: http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Moving Into Town and Moving On: The Community College in the Lives of Traditional-age Students. To get started finding Moving Into Town and Moving On: The Community College in the Lives of Traditional-age Students, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 202

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: U.S. Department of Education

Release: 2005

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Description: This book offers a series of transcript-based portraits of traditional-age community college students. To provide the portraits, this book draws principally on the most recently completed of the grade-cohort longitudinal studies of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/2000), which began with a national sample of 25,000 eighth-graders in U.S. schools in 1988 and followed subgroups of this cohort to 2000. The postsecondary transcripts for 8,900 members of this cohort (representing a weighted 2.2 million students) were gathered in 2000, when most cohort members were 26 or 27 years old, and the story lines of Moving Into Town are built from the transcript records. The inquiry is guided by a strain in the literature of environmental design that approaches human settlements through the eyes and experience of people who use and move through them. It sees the community college as just such a human settlement, and for the convenience of narrative, calls it a “town,” the fundamental commerce of which is the delivery of learning in different districts (subject matter) by various means and schedules. Across the portraits and the various aspects of student academic history examined in this study, the book finds six distinct traditional-age populations served by the community college:1. A persistent group oriented toward traditional academic and occupational fields that establishes a path of attainment involving transfer and earning a bachelor's degree;2. An equally persistent group oriented toward the intermediate occupational credentials awarded by community colleges that also establishes a path of attainment;3. A group with significantly weaker secondary school preparation that struggles to acquire a modicum of credits in the community college, then stops;4. A group that basically withdraws on entry to the community college, earning few if any credits;5. Temporary visitors who are based in other types of institutions, principally four-year; and6. A small population of undergraduate reverse transfers who evidence declining momentum toward credentials at any level.More information online at: http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Moving Into Town and Moving On: The Community College in the Lives of Traditional-age Students. To get started finding Moving Into Town and Moving On: The Community College in the Lives of Traditional-age Students, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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