Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference?
Most of the models developed to examine student persistence and attainment in
postsecondary education largely fail to account for the influence of institutional factors,
particularly when attendance is observed at multiple institutions. Multi-institutional
attendance is common for students who begin at a community college, but until now an
empirical framework to estimate the contribution of more than one institution's characteristics
on students' educational outcomes has been largely absent in the literature. One of the …
postsecondary education largely fail to account for the influence of institutional factors,
particularly when attendance is observed at multiple institutions. Multi-institutional
attendance is common for students who begin at a community college, but until now an
empirical framework to estimate the contribution of more than one institution's characteristics
on students' educational outcomes has been largely absent in the literature. One of the …