A quantitative assessment of Texas house bill 505: college dual credit courses and academic success among high school students

dc.contributor.advisorBowden, Randall
dc.contributor.advisorBanda, Rosie
dc.contributor.authorKlimitchek, Michelle Leigh
dc.contributor.committeeMemberAguilar, Israel
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBenibo, Bilaye
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-29T20:08:04Z
dc.date.available2018-03-29T20:08:04Z
dc.date.issued2017-12
dc.description.abstractTexas House Bill 505 expanded dual credit programs to include high school freshmen and sophomores. This study examined the relationship of high school student characteristics and academic success in first attempt dual credit courses. Characteristics refer to year in high school, gender, and high school size. Success is passing scores in English, mathematics, and history. Data were collected from a community college, providing services to area high schools. Of 826 cases 10 were freshmen and sophomores. More data from the state was unavailable as the state does not require reporting. Therefore, analyses included juniors and seniors with chi-square and logistic regression. House Bill 505 was assessed with Fowler’s (2013) Six-Stage Model of public policy. Results from statistical analyses were mixed, indicating context plays a large role and it is not known how well House Bill 505 functions. Future research should focus on tracking high school students in dual credit courses.en_US
dc.description.collegeCollege of Education and Human Developmenten_US
dc.description.departmentEducational Leadership, Curriculum & Instructionen_US
dc.format.extent129 Pagesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.6/31135
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 3.0 United States*
dc.rightsThis material is made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used should be fully credited with its source. All rights are reserved and retained regardless of current or future development or laws that may apply to fair use standards. Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the author and/or publisher.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectacademic successen_US
dc.subjectdual crediten_US
dc.subjecteducation policyen_US
dc.subjecthouse bill 505en_US
dc.titleA quantitative assessment of Texas house bill 505: college dual credit courses and academic success among high school studentsen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreDissertationen_US
dcterms.typeText
thesis.degree.disciplineEducational Leadershipen_US
thesis.degree.grantorTexas A & M University--Corpus Christien_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Educationen_US

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