A plethora of research spanning several decades has attempted to understand predictors of
retention and graduation in undergraduate bachelor's degree programs. The topic is no less …

Persistence of community college students is a serious and perennial concern with
numerous published figures illustrating the daunting odds that students and institutions face …

To enhance student success, many colleges and universities have expanded academic
support services and programmatic interventions. One popular measure that has been …

Retention of students at colleges and universities has been a concern among educators for
many decades. The consequences of student attrition are significant for students, academic …

Objective: This study examined how a set of theoretically derived factors predicted the
educational attainment outcomes of Latina/o community college students. The guiding …

Higher education institutions in the United States and across the Western world face a
critical problem of attrition of college students and this problem is particularly acute within …

We explored the benefits of strengths-based academic advising approaches for first-year
students (N= 1,228). We used propensity score matching techniques to create matched pairs …

While there is general consensus that students are more or less participants in their
educational experiences, the relationship between student participation and satisfaction has …

The use of dual credit has been expanding rapidly. Dual credit is a college course taken by
a high school student for which both college and high school credit is given. Previous …

[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Quantitative Methods in PER: A Critical
Examination.] A common goal in discipline-based education research (DBER) is to …