Transition to College

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Questions About Transition to College Initiatives and Programs

  • "Do Student Success Courses Actually Help Community College Students Succeed?" According to this research brief, the answer is yes! See the June 2007 CCRC Brief on the topic at [1] What success courses does your college partner offer?
  • Career Pathways are a model of transition that appeal to many adults. How do you help students locate programs that reflect their career interests?
  • How does your program prepare students for the challenge of reading complex material? (See Adelman's article under Research and see Reading Strategies under Promising Practices.)
  • Are you coming to COABE 2007 in Philidelphia? What would you like to see in a transition strand? [2]
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Resources for Transition Program Development

  • Upcoming transition-related professional development opportunities [3]
  • Transitioning Adults to College: Adult Basic Education Program Models by Cynthia Zafft, Silja Kallenbach, and Jessica Spohn. This NCSALL Occasional Paper describes the five models—Advising, GED-Plus, ESOL, Career Pathways, and College Preparatory—and the themes and recommendations that others contemplating adult college transition services might find helpful. To download the paper, go to http://www.ncsall.net/?id=26.
  • New Career Pathways…they sound good, but what exactly do they look like? Visit Oregon’s Pathways to Advancement website for some very interesting examples of career pathways.

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  • GED PLUS College Preparation Program in Florida. [5]
  • Focus on Basics issue on Transitions [6]
  • Case study by JFF, Year Up, an innovative IT training program for low-income, urban young adults that also prepares students for college. [7]
  • NEW Career Pathway Toolkit by the Workforce Strategy Center (WSC) includes [8]
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Promising Practices

  • NEW Career Planning for SUCCESS at [10]
  • Preparing Students for College-level Math [11]
  • Reading Strategies [12]* More on Developmental Reading: [13]*
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Research on Transition to College

  • NEW To Reach the First Rung and Higher: Building Healthcare Career Ladder Opportunities for Low-Skilled Disadvantaged Adults (Chisman and Spangenberg, 2005). Produced by the Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy (CAAL) and based on various CAAL activities including in-depth review of six exemplary career ladder programs offered in various institutional settings: a union, a hospital, a community-based organization, and three community colleges in partnership with an array of medical centers. [14]
  • New Career Pathways: Aligning Public Resources to Support Individual and Regional Economic Advancement in the Knowledge Economy (Jenkins, 2006). [15]
  • Especially for Counselors...a careful look at the real benefits of college certificate and associate degree programs at [16]
  • How many GED students go on to participate in postsecondary education? How many complete a two-year degree, and how many complete a four-year degree? GED postsecondary
  • Alamprese, Judy. Helping Adult Learners Make the Transition to Postsecondary Education November, 2005. [17]* Prince, David and Jenkins, Davis. Building Pathways to Success for Low-Skill Adult Students: Lessons for Community College Policy and Practice from a Statewide Longitudinal Tracking Study April, 2005 [18]
  • Gittleman, Julia, Evaluator.The New England ABE-To-College Transition Project Evaluation Report The Nellie Mae Education Foundation June, 2005. [19]
  • To Ensure America's Future: Building a National Opportunity System for Adults, Results of a two-year study by the Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy, conducted to examine the role and potential of community colleges in ABE. 2005. [20]
  • Adelman (1998) The Kiss of Death? An Alternative View of College Remediation. Student graduation rates based on number of remedial classes taken. The take home message -- students need to come to college as prepared as possible, especially in reading. [21]
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Discussions on Transition to College


Discussion on FOB List: Transition from GED to Postsecondary Education

February 26 - March 2, 2007

Summary:

This discussion began with an overview of the results of a study by NCSALL researcher John Tyler of Brown University and colleague Magnus Lofstrom of the University of Texas at Dallas. The study found a low rate of enrollment in postsecondary education among GED holders as compared with high school graduates, and is described in Tyler’s article in FOB 8C, “Is the GED an Effective Route to Postsecondary Education?”. Barbara Garner, editor of Focus on Basics, introduced the results of the study, and we discussed possible reasons for these findings.

Then Cynthia Zafft, Director of the National College Transitions Network, and Sandy Goodman, Director, New England College Transition Project at World Education, Inc., along with other list members, discussed programs and promising strategies that are addressing this issue. The discussion included retention, how programs count students, the importance of addressing “soft skills”, financial resources for continuing education, and practice tests as predictors of pass rates. There was also some discussion about how to create a thirst for knowledge, instead of just helping students pass the GED.

For the full discussion, recommended reading, and guest speakers' bios, please go to:
http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/focusonbasics/02_07FOBDiscussion1.html

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