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Author(s):Sawyer, R
Title:Benefits of additional high school coursework and improved course performance in preparing students for college
Source:http://www.act.org/research/researchers/reports...
Date:2008
Organization:ACT, Inc
Short Description:One strategy to improve college preparation among high school students is to encourage them to take more rigorous college-preparatory courses and to earn higher grades in these courses. This study examines the effectiveness of this strategy using data from students who took ACT’s EXPLORE test in eighth grade, the PLAN test in tenth grade, and the ACT in eleventh/twelfth grade.
Annotation:Authorities have recommended many different strategies for improving the educational achievement of high school students. One such strategy is to encourage them to take more rigorous college-preparatory courses and to earn higher grades in these courses. This study examines the effectiveness of this strategy using data from students who took ACT’s EXPLORE test in eighth grade, the PLAN test in tenth grade, and the ACT in eleventh/twelfth grade.
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Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions
The path to career success: High school achievement, certainty of career choice, and college readiness make a difference
Rethinking developmental education in community colleges
Connext System
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and student benefits: Implications for the safe schools/healthy students core elements
College readiness standards
Charter schools in eight states: Effects on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for addressing the needs of English Language Learners
Paving the road to college: How school counselors help students succeed
Aligning multiple campus initiatives: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Cultivating generative connections, commitment, and engagement among campus constituencies: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Improving student success by strengthening developmental education in community colleges: The role of state policy
Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth
International Benchmarking Toolkit
Race to the top: Promising approaches to establishing meaningful data systems fostering continuous improvement
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
On the front lines of schools: Perspectives of teachers and principals on the high school dropout problem
College-going cultures in urban high schools
Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education
Getting back on track: Effects of a community college program for probationary students
Diplomas and dropouts: Which colleges actually graduate their students (and which don't)
The educational crisis facing young men of color: Reflections on four days of dialogue on the educational challenges of minority males
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
Putting the customer first in college: Why we need an office of consumer protection in higher education
Promoting gatekeeper course success among community college students needing remediation: Findings and recommendations from a Virginia study
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
Are charter schools making a difference? A study of student outcomes in eight states
It's about time: Temporal dimensions of college preparation programs
Ready for tomorrow: Six proven ideas to graduate and prepare more students for college and 21st-century careers
Overcoming doubts about online learning
The economic benefits from halving the dropout rate: A boom to businesses in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Financial education in TRIO programs
Assessing the use and impact of ECMC Foundation's Realizing the College Dream curriculum
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
Ohio State University Department of Mathematics Early Mathematics Placement Testing
Deloitte 2009 education survey overview: Redefining high school as a launch pad
Work-based learning in California: Opportunities and models for expansion
College readiness issue brief: Aligning P-12 and postsecondary education: Toward a seamless P-16 education system
On the cusp in California: How PreK-3rd strategies could improve education in the Golden State
The historic opportunity to get college readiness right: The Race to the Top fund and postsecondary education
Credit/skills recovery pilot project: Documentation report for the Boston public schools
Calculating cost-return for investments in students success
Why have college completion rates declined? An analysis of changing student preparation and collegiate resources
No Excuses University Network
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Sustaining the Race to the Top reforms
Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates
National opportunity to learn campaign: State data and analysis
A developmental perspective for high school practitioners on college and workplace readiness
A developmental perspective on workplace readiness: Preparing high school students for success
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
How do American students measure up? Making sense of international comparisons
Evaluation of evidence-based practices in online learning: A meta-analysis and review of online learning studies
A plan for success: Communities of color define policy priorities for high school reform
The Education Equality Project: Improving teacher quality
Transforming America's community colleges: A federal policy proposal to expand opportunity and promote economic prosperity
Coalition for Student Achievement
The accountability illusion
Estimating the social value of higher education: Willingness to pay for community and technical colleges
Funding dual credit programs: What do we know? What should we know?
Is your local high school making the grade? 10 Elements of a successful high school
The nation's report card: NAEP 2008: Trends in academic progress
USA Funds Unlock the Future
Education watch 2009
The impact of afterschool programs that promote personal and social skills
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates
Preparing the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow
NACAC Prep for college calendar
The dreaded "P" word: An examination of productivity in public postsecondary education
Graduating America: Meeting the challenge of low-graduation rate high schools
National studies find TRIO programs effective at increasing college enrollment and graduation
The productivity argument for investing in young children
The impact of peers on college preparation: A review of the literature
How schools can shape peer relations to promote achievement among Mexican-origin youth
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Characteristics of students who stop out
Achieving a wealth of riches: Delivering on the promise of data to transform teaching and learning
Redefining college readiness
Changes in postsecondary degrees below the Bachelor's: 1997-2007
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Innovations in college readiness: How early college schools are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success
The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)
College Awareness Month: Resources for building a college-going culture
College-going culture rubric
Counselor and college access provider activities to create a college-going culture
Teacher and staff activities to create a college-going culture
Helping Latinas succeed in school: How federal policymakers can address barriers to high school graduation
Stronger department of education oversight needed to help ensure only eligible students receive federal student aid
And after high school? A pan-Canadian study of grade 12 students in French-language schools in minority settings: Educational aspirations and plans to pursue a career in their home regions -- Executive Summary
Are student employment and academic success linked?
“Why access matters” revisited: A review of the latest research
Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education
The future of middle-skill jobs
Expanding options: State financing of education pathways for struggling students and out-of-school youth (Indiana report)
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
Removing the roadblocks: Fair college opportunities for all California students
Advanced placement subcommittee: Policy barriers identified
Essential elements of engagement: High expectations and high support
Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study
Doing what works
Study of the effectiveness and efficiency of charter schools in Indiana
High schools as launch pads: How college-going culture improves graduation rates in low-income high schools
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Achieving the Dream Data Notes: Developmental education: Completion status and outcomes
ETS Policy Notes: Addressing achievement gaps: The language acquisition and educational achievement of English-language learners
Career academies: Long-term impacts on labor market outcomes, educational attainment, and transitions to adulthood
Improving the distribution of teachers in low-performing high schools
Community colleges: Special supplement to the Condition of Education 2008
It's not about the cut score: Redesigning placement assessment policy to improve student success
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
Despite surging endowments, high-ranking universities and colleges show disappointing results in enrolling low-income students
Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools
The role of schools in the English language learner achievement gap
First-generation students: Undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
Scholarships for Hispanics
Engaged for success: Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention
Condition of education 2008
Trends among high school seniors 1972-2004
Race matters: Unequal opportunities in education
The Benwood plan: A lesson in comprehensive teacher reform
The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act
Fixing No Child Left Behind
Passing the torch: Strategies for innovation in community college ESL
Science and engineering indicators 2008: State data tool
Science and mathematics education indicators
Confronting the "new" American dilemma: Underrepresented minorities in engineering: A data-based look at diversity (Executive Summary)
The status of African Americans in engineering: Confronting the "new" American dilemma
The costs and benefits of an excellent education for all of America's children
Project stepping stone: A college preparation program for Hispanic youth
Indiana's adult education and workforce skills performance report: Preparing adults for a brighter future
Windows on achievement and inequality
Reaching higher college completion (working paper)
How does the United States stack up? International comparisons of academic achievement
Transitional jobs for ex-prisoners: Early impacts from a random assignment evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
Archdiocese of Indianapolis: The Church in central and southern Indiana
The Study Skills Guide for Students
Study Strategies
The minds of boys
A study of the Talent Search program: Analysis and highlights
Second to none in attainment, discovery, and innovation: The national agenda for higher education
College readiness crisis spurs call for change by ACT in nation's core high school curriculum
Improving students' readiness for college: Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Illinois District 233
Action plan: Educators/Policymakers
Are high school grades inflated?
Inside the admissions process: What happens to your child's applications?
Application requirements: There's more than just a form
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
Federal support for adolescent literacy: A solid investment
Preparing all Indiana youth for life in the global human capital economy
Summer learning programs: Diversifying the high school experience
Balancing acts: How high school counselors view risks and opportunities of student loans
Homework helper: Help your child take control
Educational programs and projects that address the needs of low-income students
The first year of high school: A quick stats fact sheet
NCLB and high schools
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Retooling career and technical education
Early college high school initiative: Brochure (2007)
Resources for intermediaries: Developing a budget for early college
Rethinking high school: Preparing students for success in college, career, and life
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
Left behind by design: Proficiency counts and test-based accountability
Using rigorous evidence to improve policy and practice
Learning about the role of college student in dual enrollment participation
What matters for staying on-track and graduating in Chicago public high schools
Engaging parents in education: Lessons from five parental information and resource centers
Experiences that matter: Enhancing student learning and success
A Better Chance.org
Who graduates in California?
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Are public schools really losing their "best"? Assessing the career transitions of teachers and their implications for the quality of the teacher workforce
Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities
From aspirations to action: The role of middle school parents in making the dream of college a reality
A disturbing trend in law school diversity
Getting students to meet challenging academic and career goals: Involving school mentors, parents, and community leaders
Value-added analysis and education policy
Dead ends: The need for more pathways to graduation for overage, under-credited students in New York City
Beyond college for all: Policies and practices to improve transitions into college and jobs
What works in college retention
Latino students and the educational pipeline: From middle school to the workforce
Latino students and the educational pipeline: Latino high school and baccalaureate graduates: A comparison
One-third of a nation: Rising drop-out rates and declining opportunity
The American diploma project: Overview of research
Academic preparation and college success: Analysis of Indiana’s 2000 high school class
Value added: The costs and benefits of college preparatory programs in the united states
Making the grade in college prep: A guide for improving college preparation programs
The education pipeline in the U.S., 1970-2000
The burden of borrowing: A report on the rising rates of student debt
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
College readiness begins in middle school
Add it up: Using research to improve education for low-income and minority students
First generation students in postsecondary education: A look at their college transcripts
Indiana high school students' opportunities for earning college credit
Detail to the key components of Indiana's P-16 plan for improving student preparation for college success
The secondary and technical education excellence act of 2003: Overview for FY 2004 budget release
Network news: Focus on P-16 partnerships
Mentoring at-risk high school students: Evaluation of a school-based program
An overview of school-based mentoring
Who goes to college? High school context, academic preparation, the college choice process, and college attendance
The ABC's of early awareness: A resource guide and toolkit for helping students achieve a higher education
ACT policy report: Schools involving parents in early postsecondary planning
Do graduation tests measure up: A closer look at state high school exit exams
The middle grades: Putting all students on track for college
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American Boys
Access to the most selective private colleges by high-ability, low-income students: Are they out there?
NCHEMS information center
The higher dropout rate of foreign-born teens: The role of schooling abroad
A call to action: Transforming high school for all youth
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
The Gates effect
Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Working their way through college: Student employment and its impact on the college experience
Reality check 2006: Are parents and students ready for more math and science
Pathways to college access and success
What are the expected benefits associated with implementing a comprehensive guidance program
Research brief: How do career interventions impact the educational choices of eighth grade students
High school reform and work: Facing labor market realities
Focus on results: An academic impact analysis of the Knowledge is Power Program
Developing and using student data: Bartholomew county's six year follow-up study
Career advancement for low-income workers through community college and community-based organization partnerships
Impact of student aid program design, operations, and marketing on the formation of family college-going plans and resulting college-going behaviors of potential students
Involving parents
Identifying potential dropouts: Key lessons for building an early warning data system: A dual agenda of high standards and high graduation rates
Promoting parent involvement, improving student outcomes
Moving into town - and moving on: The community college in the lives of traditional age students
The literacy of America's college students
Analyzing state and regional K-16 policies: A toolkit for researchers and policy analysts
Standards for quality online teaching
States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages
Latino student success at Hispanic serving institutions
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
Statement of the national summit on competitiveness: Investing in America's future
What student engagement data tell us about college readiness
Addressing America's dropout challenge: State efforts to boost graduation rates require federal support
Guide for parents: Ten steps to prepare your child for college
College entrance tests
Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments
The nation's report card: Civics 2006
Realizing the college dream (English and Spanish versions)
Collegiate learning assessement project
Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-first grade sample
Inside the black box of high-performing high-poverty schools
Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states
Reading next: A vision for action and research in middle and high school literacy
Improving academic achievement in urban districts: What state policymakers can do
Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools
Postsecondary transitions among Navajo Indians
Results that matter: New technology high school at a glance
National forum to accelerate middle grades reform
Improving literacy outcomes for English language learners in high school: Considerations for states and districts in developing a coherent policy framework
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
The effects of merit-based financial aid on course enrollment, withdrawal, and completion in college
Critical connections: Linking states’ unit record systems to track student progress
Making opportunity affordable: Reinvesting in college access and success
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
Student debt and the class of 2005: Average debt by state, sector, and school
NAEP high school transcript study
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
Pathways to improving practice: How can pre-college outreach programs work with schools
The advanced placement expansion of the '90's: How did traditionally underserved students fare
Getting ready for college: What student engagement data can tell us
Hoosiers on Jupiter
Office of Indian education programs
Trends in African American and Native American participation in STEM higher education
Forgotten students: American Indian high school students' narratives on college going
America's high schools: The frontline in the battle for our economic future
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
Academic pathways to college: Policies and practices of the fifty states to reach underserved students

 

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