Comprehensive student support efforts result in high enrollment, retention despite pandemic, hurricanes

Concurrent Enrollment in Lecture and Laboratory Enhances Student Performance and Retention

Laboratories have been a cornerstone in teaching and learning across multiple scientific disciplines for more than 100 years. At the collegiate level, science laboratories and their corresponding lectures are often offered as separate courses, and students may not be required to concurrently enroll in both. In this study, we provide evidence that enrolling in an introductory laboratory concurre...

Student Retention and Support in Open and Distance Learning

Can an excellent distance learning library service support student retention

Higher Education libraries have traditionally sought to be able to demonstrate the impact their services have on student attainment. This is particularly important in the current economic climate where libraries frequently have to defend their budgets in the face of financial constraints, whilst needing to demonstrate better value for money to students who are now paying more for higher educati...

Prediction of Student Success Using Enrollment Data

Predicting the success of students as a function of different predictors has been a topic that has been investigated over the years. This paper explores the socio-demographic variables like gender, region lived and studied, nationality and high school degree that may influence success of students. We examine to what extent these factors help us to predict students’ academic achievement and will...

Trends in Texas high school student enrollment in mathematics, science, and CTE-STEM courses

Background: In the context of Texas of the USA, House Bill 5 signifies a major policy shift requiring entering high school students starting in fall 2014 to choose an endorsement, like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) being one of them, to provide students with earlier exposure to a coherent course sequence. As we barely understand students’ choices before the endorsemen...