Predictors of Long-Term Enrollment and Degree Outcomes for Community College Students: Integrating Academic, Psychosocial, Socio-demographic, and Situational Factors

By Sameano F. Porchea, Jeff M. Allen, S. Robbins, Richard P. Phelps. Journal of Higher Education, 2010

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We examined the effects of student (academic preparation, psychosocial, socio-demographic, and situtaional) and institutional characteristics on long-term enrollment outcomes. We tracked enrollments and degrees awarded for sutdents who originally enrolled at two-year institutions across five years. Our findings have implications for identifying at-risk students and tailoring efficent intervention strategies.

Subfields: Education, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Safety Research

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• Understanding the Racial Transfer Gap: Modeling Underrepresented Minority and Nonminority Students’ Pathways from Two-to Four-Year Institutions (2014, background): “…by academic performance prior to and during college including high school grade point average (GPA) (Eddy, Christie, & Rao, 2006; Lee & Frank, 1990; Porchea et al., 2010; Velez & Javalgi, 1987), high school mathematics courses (Lee & Frank, 1990) and test scores (Wang, 2012), and college GPA…”
• Predicting Graduation (2015, background): “Likewise, more recent studies using academic self-confidence as a predictor of graduation status found null findings in a sample of student nurses (McLaughlin et al., 2007) or found contrary findings in a community college sample (Porchea et al., 2010).”