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Katherine L. Hughes

January 2020

Trends in Key Performance Indicators Among Colleges Participating in a Technology-Mediated Advising Reform Initiative

This report describes trends in key performance indicators among the 26 two- and four-year institutions that participated in the Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS) grant initiative from 2011 to 2017.
September 2018

KCTCS Enhancing Programs for IT Certification (EPIC)

This report evaluates the implementation and impacts of Enhancing Programs for IT Certification (EPIC), a program that aims to expand access to computer and medical information technology credentials at six Kentucky community colleges.
July 2012

Broadening the Benefits of Dual Enrollment: Reaching Underachieving and Underrepresented Students With Career-Focused Programs

The three-year study examined the outcomes of almost 3,000 students participating in eight dual enrollment programs across California.
July 2012

Bridging College and Careers: Using Dual Enrollment to Enhance Career and Technical Education Pathways

This NCPR working paper compares outcomes of students who participated in dual enrollment courses through the Concurrent Courses Initiative with those of similar students who did not participate.
June 2012

Teaching and Learning in the Dual Enrollment Classroom

Using qualitative data from California's Concurrent Courses Initiative, this article explores how teaching in a dual enrollment program can foster new approaches to classroom pedagogy.
June 2012

Dual Enrollment for College Completion: Findings From Tennessee and Peer States

Commissioned by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce, this report reviews dual enrollment policies in Tennessee and five peer states—Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Kentucky.
November 2011

Assessing Developmental Assessment in Community Colleges (Assessment of Evidence Series)

This paper examines the role of entry assessment and its implementation, the validity of common assessments, and emerging directions in assessment policy and practice.
October 2011

Different Approaches to Dual Enrollment: Understanding Program Features and Their Implications

This report discusses eight secondary-postsecondary partnerships in California that sought to integrate dual enrollment with a career-focused strategy for engaging struggling students.
June 2011

Dual Enrollment for High School Students

This how-to guide provides information for practitioners, schools, and districts on how to incorporate college coursework into high school academies and pathways.
October 2010

Community College and High School Partnerships

Prepared for the 2010 White House Summit on Community College, this brief discusses partnerships that promote college enrollment, college readiness, and postsecondary persistence.
July 2010

Dual Enrollment: Postsecondary/Secondary Partnerships to Prepare Students

This article describes some of the ways in which dual enrollment requires the engagement of college faculty with high school personnel and their students, and it reviews the challenges and potential benefits of these relationships.
June 2010

An Exploration of Tinto’s Integration Framework for Community College Students

This paper examines whether Tinto's integration framework—commonly used to examine student persistence in the four-year sector—is applicable to two-year institutions.
April 2009

The Landscape of Noncredit Workforce Education: State Policies and Community College Practices

This report provides detailed findings on state policies and community college practice from CCRC's study of community college noncredit workforce education.
January 2009

Student Success Courses in the Community College: An Exploratory Study of Student Perspectives

In this journal article, the authors examine how student success courses help students develop relationships that provide support and useful information long after the class is over.
December 2008

Information Networks and Integration: Institutional Influences on Experiences and Persistence of Beginning Students

This article explores the ways that information networks are related to student persistence in the community college and how institutional structures can encourage such networks.
October 2008

The Postsecondary Achievement of Participants in Dual Enrollment: An Analysis of Student Outcomes in Two States

This study uses rigorous quantitative methods to examine the impact of dual enrollment participation on students in Florida and New York City.
August 2008

Dual Enrollment Policies and Practices: Earning College Credit in California High Schools

This report is intended to inform educators, policymakers, administrators, and researchers about current policies and practices that shape dual enrollment in California.
April 2008

Supporting College Transitions Through Collaborative Programming: A Conceptual Model for Guiding Policy

This article provides a theoretical rationale for policymakers' support for programs that allow high school students to take college-level classes for credit.
March 2008

When the Virtual Becomes Real: Student Learning in the Virtual Enterprises Program

This report discusses findings and recommendations from a study of the New York City Virtual Enterprises International program, in which students create and run virtual businesses.
January 2008

Do Support Services at Community Colleges Encourage Success or Reproduce Disadvantage?

This study examines the ways that student support services in community colleges inadvertently perpetuate and legitimate disadvantage.
January 2007

The National Academy Foundation’s Career Academies: Shaping Postsecondary Transitions

This chapter examines the extent to which career academies deliver on their promises.
January 2006

Strengthening Transitions by Encouraging Career Pathways: A Look at State Policies and Practices

This report identifies ways in which state policies can support students’ academic and labor market success by creating coherent systems of preparation for students entering technical fields.
October 2005

Pathways to College Access and Success

This report reviews findings from a study of five programs that allow high school students to take classes for college credit, or "credit-based transition programs."
September 2005

Dual Enrollment/Dual Credit: Its Role in Career Pathways

This chapter in Career Pathways: Education With a Purpose explains the differences between articulation (which is predominant in typical Tech Prep consortia) and dual enrollment.
September 2005

State Dual Enrollment Policies: Addressing Access and Quality Report

This report analyzes dual enrollment legislation in all 50 states and examines whether these policies promote or inhibit the spread of dual enrollment programs.
April 2004

Institutionalization and Sustainability of the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education Program

Institutionalization and Sustainability of the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education Program
February 2004

School-Based Career Development in an Age of Accountability: A Synthesis of the Literature

This literature review examines research on the effectiveness of school-based career guidance and development programs.
October 2003

Working Knowledge: Learning and Education Reform

This book explores the potential for using work-based learning as part of a broad education reform strategy.
March 2003

What Role Can Dual Enrollment Programs Play in Easing the Transition Between High School and Postsecondary Education?

This article provides an overview of preexisting relationships between high school and colleges and discusses the promising initiative of dual enrollment.
January 2003

Developing Work-Based Learning Pedagogies

This book chapter examines the rise of the school-to-work movement in the late 1980s and continued throughout the 1990s, and discusses work-based learning pedagogies.

Recent Publications

January 2020

Trends in Key Performance Indicators Among Colleges Participating in a Technology-Mediated Advising Reform Initiative

September 2018

KCTCS Enhancing Programs for IT Certification (EPIC)

July 2012

Broadening the Benefits of Dual Enrollment: Reaching Underachieving and Underrepresented Students With Career-Focused Programs

July 2012

Bridging College and Careers: Using Dual Enrollment to Enhance Career and Technical Education Pathways

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