Does Dual Enrollment Increase Students’ Success in College? Evidence From a Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Dual Enrollment in New York City
Does Dual Enrollment Increase Students’ Success in College? Evidence From a Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Dual Enrollment in New York City By Mina Dadgar & Drew Allen This article reviews previous studies on dual enrollment and discusses the results of an evaluation of College Now, the dual enrollment program of The City University of New York. […]
“I Don’t Know, I’ve Never Been to College!” Dual Enrollment as a College Readiness Strategy
“I Don’t Know, I’ve Never Been to College!” Dual Enrollment as a College Readiness Strategy By Melinda Mechur Karp This chapter provides a theoretical framework through which to understand the experiences of dual enrollment students. Through anticipatory socialization and role rehearsal, participants “try out” the role of college student and develop the skills necessary for […]
Teaching and Learning in the Dual Enrollment Classroom
Teaching and Learning in the Dual Enrollment Classroom By Katherine L. Hughes & Linsey Edwards This article explores how teaching in a dual enrollment program can foster new approaches to classroom pedagogy. Researchers from the Community College Research Center use qualitative data from California’s Concurrent Courses Initiative to describe how program faculty implemented research-based pedagogical […]
What We Know About Dual Enrollment
What We Know About Dual Enrollment CCRC has conducted numerous studies on dual enrollment programs over the past five years. Our dual enrollment packet synthesizes and summarizes CCRC and NCPR findings on dual enrollment outcomes, presents a case study of how one dual enrollment program increased participation of low-income and underrepresented students, and lays out […]
High School Dual Enrollment Programs: Are We Fast-Tracking Students Too Fast
High School Dual Enrollment Programs: Are We Fast-Tracking Students Too Fast? By Cecilia Speroni Despite the popularity of dual enrollment as a strategy for preparing high school students for college, little rigorous evidence exists on its effectiveness. This NCPR working paper uses a regression discontinuity design to gauge the causal effect of dual enrollment on […]
Determinants of Students’ Success: The Role of Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment Programs
Determinants of Students’ Success: The Role of Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment Programs By Cecilia Speroni Using data from two cohorts of all high school students in Florida and controlling for schools’ and students’ characteristics (including prior achievement), this NCPR working paper examines the relative power of Advanced Placement (AP) and dual enrollment in predicting […]
Different Approaches to Dual Enrollment: Understanding Program Features and Their Implications
Different Approaches to Dual Enrollment: Understanding Program Features and Their Implications By Linsey Edwards, Katherine L. Hughes & Alan Weisberg In 2008, The James Irvine Foundation launched the Concurrent Courses initiative, which provided about three years of support for eight secondary-postsecondary partnerships in California offering career-focused dual enrollment programs targeting populations historically underrepresented in higher […]
Dual Enrollment for High School Students
Dual Enrollment for High School Students By Linsey Edwards & Katherine L. Hughes Dual enrollment programs allow high school students to enroll in college courses and potentially earn college credit. This guide, created in partnership with the Career Academy Support Network at the University of California, Berkeley, provides practitioners, schools, and districts with a road […]
Community College and High School Partnerships
Community College and High School Partnerships By Elisabeth A. Barnett & Katherine L. Hughes This policy brief, prepared for the White House Summit on Community Colleges, reviews partnerships between community colleges and high schools that can help students succeed in college. These partnerships tend to focus support in the following areas: Enrollment in college: Colleges work […]
Dual Enrollment: Postsecondary/Secondary Partnerships to Prepare Students
Dual Enrollment: Postsecondary/Secondary Partnerships to Prepare Students By Katherine L. Hughes The last decade has seen an explosion of interest in dual enrollment. In dual enrollment, high school students are permitted to take college courses and, if they pass them, earn college credit. Sometimes, as in the case of dual credit, students earn both high […]