This study was designed to investigate the differences in integration and goal achievement between students entering college with and without credits from a dual credit program. Dual credit programs included in this study were Saint Louis University's Advanced College Credit 1818 Program (ACC) and Advanced Placement Testing (AP). The results of the logistic regressions indicated that ACC credits significantly influenced students' ability to persist and graduate. The results of the linear regressions indicated that ACC/AP credits did not significantly influence the students' time to graduation.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
AstinA. (1986). Preventing students from dropping out. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
2.
AstinA. (1993). What matters in college. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
3.
BeanJ. P. (1982). Conceptual models of student attrition: How theory can help the institutional researcher. New Directions for Institutional Research, 36, 17–33.
4.
BeanJ. P. (1986). Assessing and reducing attrition. New Directions for Institutional Research, 53, 47–61.
5.
BlanchardB. E. (1971). A national survey of curriculum articulation between the college of liberal arts and the secondary school. Chicago, IL: De Paul University.
6.
BorgW. R. & GallM. D. (1989). Educational research: An introduction. New York: Longman.
7.
BrighamF. (1989). Concurrent enrollment: Its effect on under-achieving minority high school students and their retention rate at a predominately white university. Santa Clara, CA: California Association of Community Colleges.
8.
BrowerA. (1992). The “second half” of student integration: The effects of life task predominance on student persistence. Journal of Higher Education, 22, 35–64.
9.
Carnegie Commission on Higher Education (1973). Continuity and discontinuity: Higher education and schools. New York: McGraw-Hill.
10.
CasserlyP. L. (1965). Colleges' decisions on advanced placement: A follow-up of advanced placement candidates of 1963. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.
11.
GreenbergA. R. (1991). High school-college partnerships: Conceptual models, programs and issues. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Reports, 5, 25–47.
12.
Hossler, D., Bean, J. P., & Associates (1990). The strategic management of college enrollments. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
13.
KrotsengM. V. (1992). Predicting persistence from the student adaptation to college questionnaire: Early warning or siren song?Research in Higher Education, 33(1), 99–111.
14.
LambertL. M.RuizM. L. D.YoungM. J. & O'ConnorE. (1987). Syracuse university project advance: Influence upon participating students, teachers, and schools. (Project Advance Research Report). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University, Research and Evaluation.
15.
LenningO. T. (1982). Variable-selection and measurement concerns. New Directions for Institutional Research, 36, 35–53.
16.
MiddaughM. F. (1992). Persistence. The Primer for Institutional Research, 1–11.
17.
MurdockT. A. (1987). It isn't just money: The effects of financial aid on student persistence. The Review of Higher Education, 11, 75–101.
18.
Noel, L., Levitz, R., Saluri, D., & Associates (1987). Increasing student retention. San Francisco: CA: Jossey-Bass.
19.
OsbornJ. W. (1928). Overlapping and omission in our course of study. Bloomington, IL: Public School Publishing Company.
20.
OttM. D. (1988). An analysis of predictors of early academic dismissal. Research in Higher Education, 28(1), 34–48.
21.
PascarellaE. T.DubyP. B.MillerV. A. & RasherS. P. (1981). Preenrollment variables and academic performance as predictors of freshman year persistence, early withdrawal, and stopout behavior in an urban, nonresidential university. Research in Higher Education, 15(4), 329–348.
22.
PascarellaE. T. & TerenziniP. T. (1991). How college affects students. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
23.
PorterO. F. (1990). Undergraduate completion and persistence at four-year colleges and universities. Washington: National Institute of Independent Colleges and Universities.
24.
SimmonsR. (1964). Precollege programs: A contributing factor to university student retention. Journal of Developmental Education, 17(3), 42–45.
25.
StaplefordJ. E. (1996). Retention to college freshmen: A cross-sectional analysis. On Target, 24, 22–26.
26.
State Council of Higher Education (1992). Response to House Joint Resolution No. 211, Appropriations Act Item 151, and House Joint Resolution No. 142. Virginia: Author.
27.
SnyderN. C. (1974, October). Articulation and Maginot Line. Paper presented at Commissioner's Second Annual Conference on Nontraditional Studies. Glen Falls, NY.
28.
TerenziniP. T.PascarellaE. & LorangW. (1994). An assessment of the academic and social influences on freshman year educational outcomes. Review of Higher Education, 5, 86–110.
29.
The Chronicle of Higher Education (1996, September 2). Almanac Issue. XLIII No. 1. Washington, D.C., 8–18.
30.
TintoV. (1987). Leaving college: Rethinking the causes and cures of student attrition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
31.
TocciS. (1982). Project advance biology: An alternative to advanced placement biology. The American Biology Teacher, 44(5), 286.
